Sorry to bother you. Given your heavy participation in discussions on F95, I’d like to clarify the full history of BLUE BONE
From what I found, Tail of Desire began development sometime between 2018 and 2019 (possibly earlier than 2018).
Originally there were only two members: Asa and an unnamed programmer
Initially Asa was the lead in development and the main artist
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, an artist named POPYZSN also once participated in the development of Tail of Desire
But it’s not hard to imagine that POPYZSN’s involvement was very brief, to the extent that no CGs by POPYZSN appear in the final Tail of Desire, and another character even doesn’t appear in the released version
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My game has another excellent painter to participate! This is his role!
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The quoted content of this tweet:
Looking forward to it~
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On January 29, 2020, BLUE BONE’s Patreon was launched:
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(that post has since been deleted)
The development process continued until the last public version released on
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However, in a Patreon post titled
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on June 1, 2022 (that post has since been deleted)
Asa admitted he was unable to carry out the initial grand plans for Tail of Desire
Though he mentioned reaching consensus with the programmer, many features—such as a good feeling system and evil value system—were adjusted or removed because they were incomplete or difficult to fully implement, making the game more like what we now play. The conflict between the two may have become irreconcilable around that point
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In a FANBOX post dated May 26, 2023, titled
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At first, I thought the characters shown might be new additions to Tail of Desire, but based on later developments, it seems that by this time Asa had already had a complete falling out with the programmer
So those characters were likely not entirely new, but redesigns of existing Tail of Desire characters — likely to avoid any potential copyright issues.
On January 31, 2024, in a FANBOX post titled
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I believe this was the first time Asa publicly discussed the idea of a sequel to Tail of Desire on a relatively open platform (though I’m not sure whether he had already mentioned it in more private spaces like Discord)
In that post, he wrote:
This can be taken as near-confirmation that Asa chose to redesign all characters to avoid any copyright disputes with the programmer.
On January 17, 2024, in a Patreon post titled
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Asa again mentioned the Tail of Desire sequel, stating:
It seems that at this point, Asa hadn't completely given up on the idea of redesigning Tail of Desire
But it was already clear that in order to avoid further conflicts with the programmer, the sequel would likely not reuse large portions of the original game's content
Then, on May 29, 2024, Asa admitted in his personal Discord server in the ask‑asanasu channel:
We can also guess that during 2023–2024, BLUE BONE’s Patreon was fully run by the programmer, and Zombies & Utopia was developed by the programmer and another artist you mentioned—Asa was not part of it
So is that generally the correct sequence of events? (My research is incomplete, and I omitted many drama details I couldn’t reliably verify, to keep the narrative close to known facts.)