Vanillaware Veteran's Solo Project Veritas Tales Gets First Playable Demo at BitSummit
The demo marks the first public hands-on opportunity for a deeply personal project from a veteran artist who left a major studio to build a game alone, with all art and writing done by one person.
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Yoshio Nishimura, a 30-year industry veteran who worked on Odin Sphere and Dragon's Crown at Vanillaware, will show a playable demo of his solo-developed reading-type fantasy adventure Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle at BitSummit PUNCH. The game features over 300 hand-drawn illustrations and 300,000 characters of text, all created by Nishimura over six years in the mountains of Nara.
Yoshio Nishimura, who spent years at Vanillaware painting the worlds of Odin Sphere and Dragon's Crown, has been working alone in the mountains of Nara for six years on a game called Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle. At BitSummit PUNCH this weekend, the public will get to play it for the first time.
The game is a reading-type fantasy adventure. Players flip through a book, make choices, roll dice, and decide whether to fight, talk, or walk away. Nishimura drew all 300-plus illustrations himself and wrote over 300,000 characters of text. The demo is a world-first, and the full game is planned for release on Steam later this year.
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