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The number of people who care about this is going to be diminishingly small, but I'll just throw it out here. I've been invited as the guest of honor by a Finnish anime convention, Mimicon, on 17-18th May. I'm going to deliver a talk about the making of KS and community, and there's going to be some...

Sure. Two of us are siblings, another two are real-life friends from before KS and there's been a bunch of people meeting each other when the geographical circumstances have allowed. I don't belong to any of the above, so can't relate any experiences.

No making ofs, but the software Mike uses are nothing special; photoshop, after effects, 3dsmax. If you want to try your hand at animation, you can easily find tutorials on the internet.

Yeah Rin but we actually just cut the use case out.

There's an entire unused outfit set for one of the characters. Some artists drew some silly expressions on some characters that weren't really meant to be used as well, just for fun.

Of course. With the combined amount of attention to detail and perfectionist propensities we have and the gigantic amounts of material KS has, there was no way we could fine-tune every single thing to perfect or always even decent satisfaction. Art in general often tends to be like that, more or less.

The latter. We wanted a way to visually separate the different corridor backgrounds from each other.

Comrade wrote:Whats with the ugly ass portraits in Yamaku hallways?

What about them? They're just an eyecatching background feature.

Kon22 wrote:It's a stupid question but, is the game currently being translated/there are plans of translating it into more languages? I ask specifically for spanish.

Yes, and yes specifically for spanish too http://ksesplatino.blogspot.fi/

At the peak of development activity, what percentage of a 40-hour work week would you say you put in on the project? Difficult question, because working on KS often wasn't continuous or easily measurable, not that I ever tried to. Maybe 25-30 hours on the long end of a "KS work week" could be somew...

Just a quick question out of curiosity, aimed at any devs who wish to answer, and on their respective character. If you had to choose a VA or seiyu for your character, that most resembles the way your character sounds in your head, whom would you choose? I always pictured Rin as similar to Tara Str...

The source photos were taken, with a few exceptions, by yujovi, me and crud. The exceptions are stuff from other staff members, even some public domain I think. The exact locations have mostly been forgotten by now, I doubt I could find the actual streets of most of them anymore. The ones from Brown...

1. They go back to the school and have lunch? 2. Haven't really thought about it. It would stand to reason that this is the case though. Then again Hisao is subtly shifted to match (or in the case of Rin, un-match) each girl in the respective routes so it's also arguable that in each of the routes, ...

None of the choice structure was meant to pose a challenge. KS isn't a game, it's a story. In reality, some experimentation with mild obfuscation and a couple oblique things make the structure less than 100% obvious, but still more or less accessible, which I suppose is a decent outcome.

I watched like 15 seconds of one. Don't really have any thoughts so I asked climatic, who said "I could not accept a katawa shoujo that does not sound like my chinese cartoons"