

Tomm Hulett (game designer for Wayforward), a member of the publishing committee, mentions having to check out the game’s contents. Rule of Rose would end up being released by Atlus instead. After its initial release in Japan, Rule of Rose would soon encounter its first issues.Īt E3 2006, Sony America declared they would not be distributing the survival horror in the United States as the game was not compatible with their image. The original idea actually came from Sony Japan, which suggested Punchline should make a game with young children protagonists. Set in 1930's rural England, the protagonist is Jennifer, a 19-year-old girl who finds herself in an abandoned orphanage populated by a strange group of young kids. Image: Sony Computer Entertainment / Atlusĭeveloped by Japanese studio Punchline and first released in January of 2006, Rule of Rose is a PlayStation 2 survival horror title. "Love and Peace: Interview with Yoshiro Kimura, Part Two" - Jace Van Kaathoven, The Indie Game Websiteīuy official Onion Games soundtracks, books and merchandise in Japan and around the world at.

"Love and Peace: Interview with Yoshiro Kimura, Part One" - Jace Van Kaathoven, The Indie Game Website."An Interview with Yoshiro Kimura from Onion Games, Part Two" - Shaun Musgrave, TouchArcade."An Interview with Yoshiro Kimura from Onion Games, Part One" - Shaun Musgrave, TouchArcade."Yoshiro Kimura's Strange Journeys" - Brandon Sheffield, Gamasutra.
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"BitSummit Excellence in Audio Award" - Black Bird, 2018."BitSummit Vermilion Gate (Grand Prize) Award" - Black Bird, 2018."Indie Stream Award Best of Art Award" - Black Bird, 2016."BitSummit Bitrider Popular Selection Award" - Million Onion Hotel, 2014."BitSummit Media Highlight Award" - Million Onion Hotel, 2014."Official IndieCade Selection" - Million Onion Hotel, 2014.Toco toco - Yoshiro Kimura, Game Creator YouTube Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games: Music Keiichi Sugiyama (Music and Sound Designer) Million Onion Hotel: Music and Sound Design Hirofumi Taniguchi (Music and Sound Designer) Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland: Character Design Moon: Remix RPG Adventure: Character Design Million Onion Hotel: Director, Game Designer Little King’s Story: Producer, Director, chat text, and humming

Rule of Rose: Plan draft, Cutscene Director, and storyboards Moon: Remix RPG Adventure: Game, scenario and clay puppet designer Yoshiro Kimura (Founder, Director, Game Designer) The team are currently developing the soon-to-be-released Dandy Dungeon for the Nintendo Switch, just one of the many releases it has planned for 2019. Both recieved worldwide critical acclaim for their uniquely Onion Games design and aesthetic approach, and have cemented the company as one of the top Japanese indie studios.
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Since its foundation, Onion Games has released the singularly bizarre mobile puzzle game Million Onion Hotel for iOS and Android, and the operatic shooting game Black Bird for Windows, Mac and the Nintendo Switch. He then again worked with Nintendo as the character designer behind the very strange and similarly delightful Legend of Zelda spin-off Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, for the Nintendo DS.Īlso part of the Onion crew are master game musicians like Hirofumi Taniguchi, who provided the soundtracks to a number of early Konami 16- and 32-bit hits before scoring games like Moon and the GameCube's Chibo-Robo!, as well as Keiichi Sugiyama, the composer behind a number of SEGA franchises including Sonic, Daytona, and even the music for Tetsuya Mizuguchi's groundbreaking musical shooter Rez. Joining him was pixel artist extraordinare Kurashima Kazuyuki, who cut his teeth doing character designs on Nintendo's SNES classic Super Mario RPG, before going on to collaborate with Kimura on games like the PlayStation's Moon: Remix RPG Adventure (often cited as one of the most charming and original games yet to be released overseas) and Little King's Story. Onion Games was founded in 2012 by a group of veteran game developers gone rogue, to take the independent game scene by storm! Director Yoshiro Kimura opened the studio following a career designing a number of cult classic games including the kissing adventure Chulip and gothic survival horror Rule of Rose, both for the PlayStation 2, as well as Little King's Story for the Nintendo Wii.
