ONION FUTURE
Onion Future is an RPG in development for the Playdate, a handheld console with a crank on the side. The playdate supports 1-bit black-and-white pixel art and has a resolution of 400px by 240px.
As one of the two-pixel artists for this project, I’ve had the opportunity to work on every aspect of the world’s visuals, from the big stuff like character and environment art to subtler visual elements like how a page turns in our game menu.
Start Date: 1.13.25 Pre-Project Ideation
Game Overview
A collection of gifs showing off various parts of our game.
Sleeping
Picking up items
Making morning coffee
Playing the song of fire
A warm fire
A walk outside
Fishing
Waterfall
Chopping Wood
Combat system
Play Test Day!
Throughout the semester we have been able to get our game in the hands of the people! Here you can see a trailer of our game’s progress halfway through the semester and some photos from our latest playtesting session.
Process Photos
All of our animations and tile sheets are made within Aseprite and Pixquare (for iPad). Below are some examples of assets before we implement them onto the device.
Animated chopping background
Menu page turn
How we layout our maps in Tiled
Map shown in Tiled
Nina Gamboni: 2D Artist Xinyu Li: 2D Artist Derek Wong: Programmer, Tech Designer Michael Wong: Producer, Sound Designer Ean McFadden: Game Designer Collin Rehmeyer: Programmer, Designer
Art done in Photoshop, Aseprite, and Pixsquare. Programming done using Lua and C.