Onion Games‘ caller sandbox RPG, which was first announced successful December 2020, volition motorboat successful 2023, manager and crippled decorator Yoshiro Kimura said successful a caller “Ask Kimura” conception sent retired to “The Secret Onion Cellar” newsletter subscribers.

As for the taxable of the RPG, Kimura could not stock a definitive answer, but said, “What I tin accidental is that this time, I person been reasoning a batch astir ‘children.’ That’s the main happening I’ve been reasoning about.”

Onion Games RPGs are known for having a circumstantial theme. moon, for example, was astir love, portion Chulip was astir kissing.

The pursuing conception artworks of the caller RPG were besides shared:

Get the afloat Ask Kimura and the latest missive from Kimura below.

Ask Kimura

#01. When volition the caller crippled beryllium released?

Thank you for this important question!

The reply is “next year”… but that’s each we tin accidental close now!

At this point, we are not successful a spot wherever we tin denote a steadfast merchandise date.

What we tin accidental is that our archetypal determination volition beryllium to adhd a Steam leafage with an undetermined merchandise date…

…I think, anyway.

And adjacent then, it volition astir apt beryllium different six months earlier motorboat connected immoderate platform…

…I think, anyway.

In bid to denote a merchandise date, we person to beryllium astatine a constituent successful improvement wherever we cognize we tin perfectly support that date…

…and we’re not determination yet.

#02. What wide taxable is your caller crippled going for, similar however moon was astir love, and Chulip was astir kissing?

Thank you precise much.

I person been receiving galore questions similar this successful English for rather immoderate time, but I haven’t yet had galore opportunities to reply them. I volition effort to reply them much often from present on.

What is the taxable of the game? That is so the question.

I can’t springiness you a definitive answer, due to the fact that I’ve been trying to afloat recognize that arsenic I marque the game…

What I tin accidental is that this time, I person been reasoning a batch astir “children.” That’s the main happening I’ve been reasoning about.

Letter

Hello everyone.

This is Kimura-san, your indie-videogame-making Uncle. As you know, I’m presently hard astatine enactment processing a caller RPG. Today, I privation to speech astir this “Rose-Tinted World.”

It seems that fig of Japanese developers making indie games is going up dramatically. And now, past period saw the debut of a TV play called Atom’s Last Shot, astir a solo, auteur, indie crippled making genius.

What an astonishing clip we unrecorded in! I can’t judge there’s a TV amusement similar this successful Japan! …But it’s benignant of weird. It’s honestly not ace interesting. Maybe due to the fact that determination is nary “drudgery” successful it?

In the existent satellite of indie games, determination are galore much frustrated developers than palmy ones. What you thought was going to beryllium a bright, rose-tinted aboriginal turns retired to really beryllium stained reddish with blood!

In reality, the satellite of indie games is much astir getting tossed into a muddy, bloody battlefield.

Maybe it’s conscionable that this amusement doesn’t represent that bloody exhaustion that galore indie crippled developers have.

During the improvement of a game, you are perpetually bleeding retired your ain surviving expenses and different labour costs, and you ne'er cognize if the adjacent transfusion volition amusement up successful clip for the crippled to marque it to release.

Even then—and adjacent if you marque an outrageously absorbing game—there is nary warrant that it volition spot immense sales.

And adjacent though we cognize that successful advance, we crippled developers person to support moving to maximize our productivity. We person to support pushing forward.

Indie crippled developers are fundamentally bizarre creatures that are perpetually running, laughing, and playing chess, each portion bleeding profusely.

Anyway, we’re going to support moving hard to implicit the caller RPG!

I’m beauteous definite that we’ll beryllium wholly drained adust by the clip it’s finished, truthful erstwhile that clip comes, delight bash person a look astatine the crippled (and possibly bargain it if you can)!

November 24, 2022
Your Indie Game Making Uncle
(Yoshiro Kimura)