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※ [Any Given Day of Any Given Month at Onion Games]
※ *typing furiously*
※ *drawing furiously*
※ *typing furiously*
※ *typing furiously*
※ *typing furiously*
※ *typing furiously*
※ *typing furiously*
※ *everyone typing furiously*
※ Nice one!
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※ Every morning, take an hour-long walk!
※ Track your heart rate with a smart-watch!
※ Give those shoulders a stretch!
※ Don’t drink alcohol on weekdays!
※ Heh heh heh… Give caffeine the boot.
※ Get at least 7 hours of sleep a day!
※ Game development is an arduous process…
※ It’s like a long-distance marathon—
※ …Hang on, when have you ever run a marathon?
That’s really your analogy?
[PR Manager who ran a 42.195km (26.219 mile) marathon for fun]
※ Guess so! Jus’ lemme!
※ Nice one!
※ Is it though?
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※ [In Which the Development Team Holds Its Spring Meat Festival]
※ Sometimes, you just need a break…
※ Let’s drink to meat and making games!
※ [Everyone] Bottoms upppp!
※ [March 2024, a certain day, a certain southeastern region]
※ Meat! Meat! Meat! Nothing but meat!
※ We ate a ton, and drank a ton!
※ And the drunken chit-chat blossomed!
※ Like Taniguchi-san’s ramen experience!
※ I jusht love ramen so mush!
※ And Adachi-san’s Netflix story!
※ Anything good on there?
※ Uhhh, I don’t remember♪
※ Luck-san’s wild art theory babbling!
※ Adding randomness to long-established practice is a waste of time!
※ What does that even mean…
※ And Mr. Kimura’s romantic gossip…
※ Young people! Fall in looooove!
※ And so, the Onions wiled away that spring night…
※ Well, the break has come to an end! Tomorrow let’s all get back to work!
※ Nice one!
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※ Long-term projects are a battle of the will…
※ Quiet your mind… quiet your mind…
※ There are times I feel extremely stressed,
but then I think back on certain scenes…
[December 2023: End-of-year Tidying]
※ Time to get this place into shape!
Let’s rearrange so everyone can get together!
※ The memory of that day gives me strength…
※ I’ll move the desks!
※ I’ve got the windows!
※ I got good snacks for the party!
※ I’ll tackle the steel shelves!
※ Let’s squeeze all of this together!
※ Let me handle the vaccuuming!
※ I’ll scrub the toilets…
※ Whoa… everyone’s working so hard…
※ This team is so strong, everyone finds exactly the thing they need to do…
※ We can fly so fast…
※ Let’s all do what we do best…
※ Let’s get that into the game…
※ OK, everyone, let’s have fun making the rest of this game!
※ We will!
※ Nice one!
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※ There’s… no way I can finish it “this winter”…
I totally failed at scheduling backwards…
[Dusk, January 2024]
※ To whom it may concern: the players, the staff, Nintendo-san…
I am truly so sorry…
※ There’s just… not enough time…
[Beautiful PR Manager Ms. Tsukiyono]
※ For indie devs, “time” is the same as “budget”, right?
Why not have another look at the budget and sales forecasts?
※ Sales forecasts, how terrifying… I’m too scared to even think about it!
※ A lot of players are looking forward to it!
※ Or maybe… no one’s looking forward to it…
[Emergency Meeting]
※ What about a fancy special edition?
※ What about a soundtrack?
※ What about figures?
※ AAAAAHHHHH! NO TO EVERYTHING! I don’t even know if anyone will want to buy those things!!
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※ Looking back, this year has been a difficult one…
※ Let’s make all the animation and sound perfect for the first part of the game!
※ Okay!
※ The sound effects are ready!
※ The battle music is ready!
※ We threw in some forest music, too!
※ Next up: optimizing the Switch version…
[March 2023]
※ The test build is ready!
※ Measuring processing speed! Optimization is go!
[Summer 2023]
※ How about the submarine section?
※ On it right now!
※ Way ahead of you!
[September 2023]
※ Then I’m all-in getting to work on the story!
※ I’m on fire!
[December 2023]
※ Wait… what? There’s still so much that needs doing!
※ The year might be over, but… the fight must go on! I have to do it!
※ I’ll take a little new year’s break and get back at it until it’s finished!
※ Do it!
※ Thank you so much for all your support this year. We look forward to seeing you in the new year!
※ Nice one!
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※ Every Thursday at 8:00 p.m., at a certain place in Tokyo…
A secret meeting about music is held…
※ [Thelonious Monkee, Masanori Adachi] OK.
※ [Thelonious Monkee, Hirofumi Taniguchi] Let’s get to it.
※ So, for this scene… We’ll need a song with a normal, lonesome feeling.
※ Sure, what do you mean by “lonesome”?
What is “normal”?
※ [Unintelligible anguish]
※ And, for this scene… it’s important to capture a sense of adventure.
※ You mean, it’s a musical representation of the player’s point of view?
※ [Unintelligible anguish]
※ And so, the Q&A session comes to an end…
But then…
※ Small-talk time begins!
※ The Beatles’ new song…
※ Strength training is so good!
※ Doesn’t it seem like more famous people have been dying lately?
※ We’re all going to die someday, aren’t we?
※ Hahahaha!
※ What? We’re spending more time chatting than working??
※ Hahahaha!
※ Well, everything’s gonna work out.
※ Every Thursday night rolls by just like so…
※ Nice one!
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※[Beautiful PR Manager Ms. Tsukiyono] So, apparently, we made 2% progress on the game last month… What does that actually mean?
※ Ah, well… you see—
※ RUN AWAY!
※ Boss! That way!
※ It’s an escape route!
※ Phew!
※ *SLAM*
※ Huh?
※ *CLICK*
※ Heheheh…
※ Please forgive us, boss!
※ Heh heh heh heh… Until the game is finished, you’re not going anywhere!
※ And so the videogame-making Uncle retreated into the vault… where he lived happily ever after.
※ Nice one?
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※ No! The meteor is on a collision course! The impact will cause a new ice age! That means… permanent winter!
※ [Barfly Kurashima] Oooh thish winter s’gonna be a long one…
※We’re about 72% of the way to completion of the game, or global extinction!
※ Nice one!
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※ Ohhh… oh man…
※ I finally released the first screenshots of my new game!
※ And in such a big way!
※ Everyone in the whole world has seen it now!
※ But… I’m still working on it!
※ You know, I feel like it’s really starting to come together lately!
※ ……
※ Right… okay… OK!! We can’t slow down now, we have to buckle down even harder! The end goal is still far away! We have to!
※ We have to!
※[Public Relations Manager Ms. Tsuskyono] By the way… How has development been going? What’s the actual percentage?
※ [sneaking away slowly]
※ [said in my authentic usual way] I bet I could guessh!
It’sh about 70%, probablyyy!
※ Good one!
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