Onion Games

Factsheet

Developer:
Onion Games
Based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Founding date:
July 2, 2012

Website:
http://oniongames.jp

Press / Business contact:
american_onion@oniongames.jp

Social:
twitter.com/oniongames
facebook.com/oniongames

Releases:
Black Bird
Dandy Dungeon
Million Onion Hotel
Mon Amour
Moon
Stray Children

Description

Onion Games is making games happily.

History

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.

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. 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.

Also 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 <Area 1> music for Tetsuya Mizuguchi's groundbreaking musical shooter Rez.

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. 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.

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.

Yoshiro Kimura (Founder, Director, Game Designer)

moon: Remix RPG Adventure: Game, scenario and clay puppet designer
Chulip: Director and Story Creator
Rule of Rose: Plan draft, Cutscene Director, and storyboards
No More Heroes: Producer
Little King’s Story: Producer, Director, chat text, and humming
Million Onion Hotel: Director, Game Designer
Black Bird: Director, Game Designer
Dandy Dungeon: Director, Game Designer



Kazuyuki Kurashima (Art Director)

Super Mario RPG: Character Design
moon: Remix RPG Adventure: Character Design
UFO: A Day in the Life: Character Design
Endonesia: Character Design
Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland: Character Design
Little King’s Story: Monster Design
Black Knight Sword: Art Direction
Million Onion Hotel: Art Director
Black Bird: Art Director
Dandy Dungeon: Lead Pixel Artist



Hirofumi Taniguchi (Music and Sound Designer)

Contra: Hard Corps: Sound Design
Suikoden: Music
UFO: A Day in the Life: Music
L.O.L.: Lack of Love: Sound Design
Endonesia: Sound Design
Chulip: Music and Sound Design
Chibi-Robo!: Music
Million Onion Hotel: Music and Sound Design
Black Bird: Music



Keiichi Sugiyama (Music and Sound Designer)

The Typing of the Dead: Sound Design
Daytona USA: Music
Rez: Music and Sound Design
Sonic Heroes: Music
Rule of Rose: Sound Design
Super Monkey Ball 3D: Music
Child of Eden: Sound Design
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games: Music
Black Bird: Sound Design
Dandy Dungeon: Music and Sound Design

Projects

• Black Bird
• Dandy Dungeon
• Million Onion Hotel
• Mon Amour
• Moon
• Stray Children

The Team

Yoshiro Kimura
Founder, Director, Game Designer

Kazuyuki Kurashima
Art Director

Hirofumi Taniguchi
Music/Sound Design (Million Onion Hotel), Music (Black Bird)

Keiichi Sugiyama
Music (Dandy Dungeon), Sound Design (Black Bird)

Contact

Email an Onion (EN)
american_onion@oniongames.jp

Contact the Onions (EN/JP)
http://oniongames.jp/contact-us

Twitter
http://twitter.com/oniongames

Facebook
http://facebook.com/oniongames

Web
http://oniongames.jp