One of indie RPGMaker game OneShot’s (2016) developers Nightmargin released the title and Kickstarter of their new game Margin of the Strange on May 14th via their X page. The official trailer is slated to be released Tuesday, May 21st, alongside the Kickstarter page. The Kickstarter page labels the project under Future Cat Games, stating the game to be “A gardening-themed mystery adventure from the developers behind OneShot”.
The main character of Margin of the Strange, Ling, appears in OneShot, although his design is different from his more moth-like Margin of the Strange design. Ling, along with Margin, is a long term project from developer Nightmargin: similar to OMOCAT’s Omori (2020), the story along with Ling started out as webcomic. The name of the game was teased back in 2020 in one of NightMargin’s posts on X.
Future Cat Games consists mainly of Eliza Velasquez, Nightmargin, Michael Shirt, and Mark Conforti. In OneShot, Velasquez is credited as a programmer, artist, writer, and composer; Nightmargin is credited as an artist, writer, and composer; Shirt is credited as programmer, writer, and composer; and Conforti is credited as a producer. The game, which includes meta, fourth-wall breaking elements, was published by Degica and developed on the RPG Maker XP engine. The game would go on to get nominated at the 2017 Golden Joystick Awards and get a console adaptation called OneShot: World Machine Edition.
Margin of the Strange, despite having minimal information upon its announcement, has an official website and Discord server as well.