[Locked] Katawa Shoujo Developer Q & A

The game is set in Britannia, Haven't you received the memo?



...Kidding, Lelouch in the game is more like a Cameo, like Kyon(or Young Dr.House)Haruhiko and Lezard. Not a dev but you don't need to be one to know that.

After reading all the post from page 1 to 10, I think all of my answers have been asked and answered nicely.

So, Great Job on making this VN, this VN really stands out from all of the VN that I have.

I'm looking for the final release.

Good Luck to All the People who is working on this.

Well, I'm of course bothered if someone who'd play KS won't do so because of the 4chan label. That's really stupid but it's something that can't be helped. I'm not worried though, many many more people will play the game because of the influence 4chan has on the internet, than those who are turned away because of the bad reputation. KS will never be something that could break out of the rather small slice of subculture we are in, 4chan label or no.

The demo release though, it was reported in many places with something like "4chan releases eroge demo!" which was beyond retarded. While I'm perfectly fine with being associated with 4chan in general, we really are not 4chan. For practical reasons the project does not embrace many of the core principles of 4chan anymore (if it did, it would have died two years ago), but we aren't about to start building any ivory towers either. I'm pretty happy with the state of our co-existence with /jp/ (and nowadays /a/ too), it feels that we are not completely separated from them even if there is the distance that the working methods of 4LS create.

You can't blame most of the people for doing so, since the first source was VERY retarded as well, If it was ANN that did that first, people wouldn't be saying the game is stupid because it's related to 4chan

Also, I've went over to a lot of forums and the retards i see who do this are often people who spam memes and terms that come from 4chan without knowing what it truly is, and only insult the game because of what they read in sankakucomplex(e.g. the starting thread in crunchyroll and otakuism).

Rin does need someone's help for stuff like that, yes. However, it's more often one of the nursing staff, rather than Emi, who has her own stuff to do as well.

We are not doing a sequel. I hope.

First, I want to congratulate your well-recognized efforts, even if i am about to start the VN for the first time.

Second, what is the general setting of the full VN? Is it going to be a School type tragicomedy, as in, having a comedic first impresion of the KS universe, while getting more serious as the relationship progresses, which is a commonly used progression style in School setting romance anime, manga and VNs storytelling? (my god, i almost bit my virtual tongue getting this phrase out)

I'm an amateur writer myself, so i want to share and learn from your already successful project. Any chance we can meet in IRC for a little chat (This goes to any writer)?

The paths are separate stories, and both girls feature in each others' stories, but not to the extent you are probably thinking of.

We don't have any plans pertaining to any extra material. That said, why not?

Akira will play a... medium sized part.

The difficulty of getting the routes seems to be very personal. From the feedback I gather that Rin is the trickiest one to get for a majority, but because of coincidences, she can be one of the first girls for others.

As the plot progresses and the relationships become more complex, I'm sure that the mood will also shift to some direction.

Feel free to join the IRC and chat me up (the other writers offer varying degrees of responsiveness as well)

I rather that you take /jp/ out of the question, since they only love to troll it with a passion.

There might be an occasion or two that calls for clothing that diverts from the uniform.

We're mostly just upset because the KS demo has introduced dozens if not hundreds of people to the VN genre.

We prefer if people can start with more solid foothold VNs, such as Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night (I can hear your groans, but Nasu is probably the most definitive VN writer).

First of all, let me congratulate all the people involved in the project. it really is the proof that even the most unlikely dreams do come true, but lets get to the questions.

1. Will there be other variations to Kenji's route? This there a possibility for a little bromance?

2. You already told there shall be no Misha route... won't you reconsider? Or at the very least allow for a threesome in Shizune's route.

3. What is the most difficult or time consuming aspect of making a VN?

4. How does it feel to be better at piercing a visual novel together than Overfl0w?

5. Where is Lily's dog? I've been told there would be dogs

6. 4chan is asking for anal and ballgags, is any of them happening?

that's it, I tried to find 2 other bro's to plead for a chance to make the portuguse tranlation for this but to no avail... that leads to my next question, to which languages this is already being translated, aside from Japanese?