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Well it should be pretty obvious. KS is a romance story with a theme harem set in a Japanese highschool stuffed with a bunch of (sometimes) weakly justified tropes that come with that territory. I don't think KS sucks (or even that VNs in a more general sense do), it just belongs to a genre that doe...

TheVUP wrote:So... Aura, how old are you? :)

Old enough.

Hmm, Aura, based on your criticisms (which I completely agree with, honestly,) I'm very curious how you'd feel about some of the English-language indie visual novels that have started to roll out, like The Royal Trap , Magical Diary , Winter Wolves games, etc. Their quality can vary dramatically, b...

While working on KS, we weren't so fed up with VNs as we are now ... Ow. TheHiveMind mentioned a while ago that he was really burned out at the end, and it sounds like he wasn't the only one. Seems like 4LS flopped over the finish line. I'm glad you made it :D Can you talk a bit about why you're so...

What kind of medicine Rin gobbled down while she was sick? Some kind of codeine pills? I don't really know if codeine helps with common cold, I only know it was used to cure coughing, but she looked relaxed, euphoric and spacey, which sort of looks like a typical opiate first-time reaction. I also ...

Hello, I have been thinking about an idea for the past few days. I'm planning to make something like a katawa shoujo "story creator". Basically, it will be a program that I'll make from scratch with ren'py. People like fan fiction writers will be able to write a dialouge in a "script" in a txt file...

We didn't try particularly hard (or at all) to make the dialogue sound like the characters are actually speaking Japanese. With some regards we deliberately moved away from that even, such as everyone using each other's first names when referring to them and ignoring pretty much all potential keigo ...

Isn't the blog enough? It's flattering if you think we're special, but most of the development was stupid shit that really isn't worth telling about except anecdotally, I feel.

EDIT: By "isn't worth" I obviously mean "would be too embarrassing"

The main cast's names were decided by voting before 4LS's time. After that, the writers came up with the names for the minor characters in their respective stories with the exception of Hivemind. In addition crud is responsible for many names including Iwanako, Yuuko, Misha, and Kenji while I came u...

Finally, I can fully see why they don't want nor like the idea of a phone port even if it were to work perfectly; it's really going to ruin the immersion for you to be standing on a train platform, reading your heroine's tender confession of love to you in-between blaring PA announcements and the w...

Not really. Anyway, obviously everything would be made to fit.

Hisao already notes early in Lilly's route that there's a rather prominent rumor mill at Yamaku that even manages to reach Kenji from time to time. When Misha changed her brown, straight hair into whacky pink curls she was likely tossed into said rumor mill too and people jumped to the conclusion t...

I'm sorry, I'm not sure what's going on. Did you try to make proportionally correct human figures in that pic? Just stack heads next to the figures and you can see that those numbers in your post are totally unrelated to the actual picture, right? Here, take Lilly. She's a bit over 4 heads tall, so ...

Because the art is super inconsistent we cheated at some things and hid the discrepancies below knee level because you never see that. Blame the artists. Perhaps more accurate would be to say "scaled perfectly (for some definition of 'perfect')". The inconsistency of the backgrounds disallows perfec...

Man what the howling hell is going on with that pic? At 20cm difference Lilly is actually less than a head taller than Emi, and the distance between her hips and head is 30 cm in the picture? You should notice within a fraction of a second that the chart can't possibly be right. The in-game sprite g...