Ondori Games is a one-person studio building tabletop and digital games that respect your time and your intelligence. We make the kind of games we'd want to play on a Saturday night.
A push-your-luck dice game about landing skate tricks and knowing when to bank.
Quietly being built. More to come.
Ondori is a small, independent games studio run out of Allegan, Michigan. We make games one at a time, slowly, until they're done.
The name comes from the Japanese word for rooster — dawn, beginnings, calling things into being. It's also a quiet nod to where the work happens: early mornings, late nights, before everyone else is awake.
Every Ondori game starts with the same three questions: Is this fun the first time? Is it still fun the tenth time? Would I rather be doing this than scrolling my phone?
If the answers aren't all yes, the game gets shelved. We'd rather make fewer, better things.
Rules should be teachable in five minutes. Mechanics should reward attention without punishing curiosity. No one came here to read a dissertation.
The best games are also the best-looking objects on the table. Design isn't decoration — it's how a game tells you how to play it.
Not when the calendar says so. Not when the funding runs out. Games take as long as they take. The audience can tell when you've rushed.