{"site":"Yomimono","license":"CC BY 4.0 (citation required)","generated_at":"2026-05-22T20:30:45.918Z","story":{"id":"r_98b772491cdc48259cb5c266","slug":"vanillaware-veteran-s-solo-project-veritas-tales-gets-first-playable-demo-at","url":"https://yomimono.id/vanillaware-veteran-s-solo-project-veritas-tales-gets-first-playable-demo-at","headline":"Vanillaware Veteran's Solo Project Veritas Tales Gets First Playable Demo at BitSummit","summary":"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.","why_it_matters":"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.","published_at":"2026-05-22T06:00:44.000Z","source_count":1,"sources":["Denfaminicogamer"],"citations":[{"source":"Denfaminicogamer","title":"A game created over 6 years by a veteran with 30 years in the game industry, formerly of Vanillaware, in the mountains of Nara, makes its world premiere playable debut at BitSummit PUNCH. A \"reading-type\" fantasy adventure with over 300 hand-drawn illustrations by a single person.","url":"https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/260522w"}],"license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"announcement","domain":"games","is_roundup":false}}}