this onion has been dreaming for a long time somebody wake them up

Hello !
There hasn't been any major updates from me in a while. I apologize for that. I checked this page very frequently, even after I was starting to drift away from RPG Maker.
I have bad news and good news.
The bad news is I no longer want to work in RPG Maker. It was great as an introduction to game design, but there were some issues I couldn't handle on my own. Particularly, I struggled a lot making the game efficient. Many of you are probably aware of a major bug Onion had, where random character portraits refused to load in. I never was able to figure out what triggered that glitch, but I assume it was just because of the sheer amount of Stuff I had running at once. The game was being held together with tape and staples, so it's no wonder it ran horribly.

But I have not been unproductive during this time ! Not only have I set aside the time to hone my art style (some of those demo portraits are ROUGH, especially in the red dream), but I have been learning a new engine for the last year. Unity! I'm very excited!

This demo could not reflect OID in any less way. The art style, the engine, and even elements of the gameplay are being changed. However, I cannot bring myself to take down this demo. Even after I make a new demo, I'd like to keep this one up for archival purposes. It's very charming to me, even though it is so rough around the edges.

I genuinely don't know when I'll have a new demo ready. I'm fresh out of college and scrounging by to pay back my loans. But I finally feel confident enough in what I'm doing to say with certainty that development on OID is starting once more and it will hopefully be better than ever!
Thank you for following the progress of Onion is Dreaming. I am so excited for the future of this game. (-:

In the meantime, here's a glimpse of how I've been reworking the style of Onion and characters from their game!