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A question for the writers. I assume that most, if not all, of you are male. Since a large chunk of the text consists of things said by female characters, how was it to write these parts? Was it different than writing lines for a male character? Did you have difficulties with those? I have heard of...

I think the last thing I wrote was actually the conversation with Misha, because it was decided that as things were it was too easy to fuck up and miss out on the good end (and once that was written I had to go fiddle with the bad end and make it a not-so-bad end instead). What, did Emi originally ...

Question for the writers: I was wondering, did you write an entire branch from beginning to end (a main branch) and subsequently wrote the other branches based on that first branch? Or did you write all branches simultaneously? I myself plotted out the good/bad branches beforehand, and then wrote t...

Okay, in keeping with the thread title, I'll ask an actual question (that isn't a joke); have the 4LS members ever considered meeting up someplace? In person, I mean. You spent years working on this game without ever meeting beyond forums and such, so I wonder if you've ever considered setting up a...

What do you guys think that on gamefaqs KS is rated #3 on top PC games and #11 for all platforms? Also, I thought that the game was amazing, but I'm sad that you guys decided not to make another game. If you made a game that sold for money and was as good as this one I think you could make a lot of...

How long do you expect the game (and perhaps the forums) to retain its popularity? No clue. I imagine there will always be a group of die-hards popping in now and again... and whenever we announce something new I'm sure folk will show up here since we don't have an official 4ls forum beyond this one.

Added note: Did 4ls break up? I heard you guys broke up and hate each other and will never make anything again. Nope. We're still making stuff. The whole group probably won't ever work on one huge game again, because it's a terrible idea and you shouldn't ever do it! But we'll be releasing stuff und...

Yes, yes, it's all quite exciting.

Was KS (After people had decided to actually make the game) ever really a "cripple-fucking" game? If so, when and how did it cease to be so? It totally remained a cripple-fucking game up until the first major shift in leadership, which coincided somewhat with the switch to the new boards (maybe a l...

Not sure if this has already been asked, But might have, Considering there's 100+ pages in this thread. But anyways, Not 4LS as a whole, But you, Are you planning on working on anything else in the future? Are you still staying in touch with the other members are talking about any other ideas? (VN ...

Not sure if this has already been asked, But might have, Considering there's 100+ pages in this thread. But anyways, Not 4LS as a whole, But you, Are you planning on working on anything else in the future? Are you still staying in touch with the other members are talking about any other ideas? (VN ...

During Lilly's route, in the scene "Out and About" I believe, she says that she's recieved several confessions in her previous school and this one. She also says that her previous school was a strict, catholic, all-girls school, which would make it unlikely that there were a large number of homosex...

I've got a question for Hivemind: I know you ended up writing Emi's path because nobody else wanted to and someone had to. Did Emi grow on you as a character over the course of writing her story? Now that the project is done, if you were to time travel back into the past when you all were choosing ...

At what point was it determined that there would be the Kenji bad ending? It obviously doesn't sound like something y'all planned right off the bat, so where and how did you guys decide to put it in? Actually the concept of a bad ending where you wound up spending the festival alone was in there pr...

Another question that just sprung to mind. I've noticed that writing for a VN is nothing like writing a novel or purely text-based work. What did you do to fit the VN format? I felt it's like writing a theatre play script. Visualization is the biggest thing that changes the way one must write, and ...