Comments on: Capcom and Vanillaware veteran spent 6 years in a remote mountain village developing Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle, a gamebook-inspired RPG with over 300 hand drawn illustrations  https://automaton-media.com/en/news/capcom-and-vanillaware-veteran-spent-6-years-in-a-remote-mountain-village-developing-veritas-tales-witch-of-the-dark-castle-a-gamebook-inspired-rpg-with-over-300-hand-d/ AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo. Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:45:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Marksman https://automaton-media.com/en/news/capcom-and-vanillaware-veteran-spent-6-years-in-a-remote-mountain-village-developing-veritas-tales-witch-of-the-dark-castle-a-gamebook-inspired-rpg-with-over-300-hand-d/#comment-8531 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:45:24 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=67264#comment-8531 "Do what you love" isn't enough in today's intensified competition, even for indie devs. That's just poor excuse. Also, I dont bother to your bad prayer. It may go back to yourself]]> In reply to Fay.

Yeah, they can make “anything they love”, while letting their country leapfrogged by China, Korea, or Western devs🤣 “Do what you love” isn’t enough in today’s intensified competition, even for indie devs. That’s just poor excuse.

Also, I dont bother to your bad prayer. It may go back to yourself

]]> By: Fay https://automaton-media.com/en/news/capcom-and-vanillaware-veteran-spent-6-years-in-a-remote-mountain-village-developing-veritas-tales-witch-of-the-dark-castle-a-gamebook-inspired-rpg-with-over-300-hand-d/#comment-8516 Fri, 29 May 2026 07:30:40 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=67264#comment-8516 In reply to Marksman.

Are you even listening to yourself? “don’t make stuff you enjoy when it’s not mainstream”
I hope you stub your toe repeatedly today, that your pillow is always warm and sticky, and your batteries empty. This mindset is the worst advice ever for any kind of creative work. Do what you love. The rest follows.

]]> By: Marksman https://automaton-media.com/en/news/capcom-and-vanillaware-veteran-spent-6-years-in-a-remote-mountain-village-developing-veritas-tales-witch-of-the-dark-castle-a-gamebook-inspired-rpg-with-over-300-hand-d/#comment-8513 Thu, 28 May 2026 11:57:35 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=67264#comment-8513 How long Japanese indie developers continue to make games that super niche and are sold just around thousand copies?????? Especially it comes from veteran developers, they can’t keep having small mindset forever by having indie excuse. Being indie doesn’t mean can’t reach wide mainstream aufiences while retain full creativity. It’s totally doable. Silksong, Dispatch, Expedition33, Stardew Valley, Hades, Disco Elysium, etc. are undoubtedly today’s gold standard. If Japanese indie devs can’t make games that are near that standard and nobody cares about, they shouldn’t make games at all in the first place

]]> By: Anon https://automaton-media.com/en/news/capcom-and-vanillaware-veteran-spent-6-years-in-a-remote-mountain-village-developing-veritas-tales-witch-of-the-dark-castle-a-gamebook-inspired-rpg-with-over-300-hand-d/#comment-8510 Wed, 27 May 2026 22:15:07 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=67264#comment-8510 Looks really nice, hope the game sells well!

]]> By: Recks https://automaton-media.com/en/news/capcom-and-vanillaware-veteran-spent-6-years-in-a-remote-mountain-village-developing-veritas-tales-witch-of-the-dark-castle-a-gamebook-inspired-rpg-with-over-300-hand-d/#comment-8509 Wed, 27 May 2026 19:31:41 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=67264#comment-8509 And yet it looks ai made

]]> By: Dark X Strider https://automaton-media.com/en/news/capcom-and-vanillaware-veteran-spent-6-years-in-a-remote-mountain-village-developing-veritas-tales-witch-of-the-dark-castle-a-gamebook-inspired-rpg-with-over-300-hand-d/#comment-8508 Wed, 27 May 2026 13:42:00 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=67264#comment-8508 This is great news, just seen the trailer and seeing the no AI used and handmade messages make me want to support developers like this!

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