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Was there much disagreement within the team regarding the release date? Did someone feel the game needed more polish, or död everyone pretty much agree that the game was finished? At the point the release date was set the game was way, way beyond the point of "do we need more polish?". That is to s...

Did every writer for the team pitch in towards every interaction with the different girls in Act 1? How did that work? I planned and wrote the scenario for Act 1, assigned bits of it to be written to the writing team and then stitched the completed scenes together. As a rule of thumb, most scenes m...

Genocya wrote:I'm not too sure if this has been asked, but is Shizune completely unable to talk?

Or does she just keep quiet?

She's mute. This was changed around like half a dozen times during the development though.

And now something for all of the dev team, that will probably seem really unusual; I wanted to ask, do you guys have any advice, like, life advice, I guess, for a fourteen year old like me, or just, in general? if you guys have any advice, or tips, or words to live by, or anything like that, I'd re...

i do have to ask though for the KS devs (2 things): 1. ever expect there to be a fanbase big enough for stuff like this? 2. theres a thread about how theres 2 other visual novels released by 4LS . i havent seen these anywhere on the internet other than here. whats the story behind those? 1. Somethi...

Hypothetically, if someone offered everyone who's a part of 4LS 40 billion dollars for the rights to Katawa Shoujo, would you accept? So I guess the real question is "Can you imagine a situation where you would sell/pass on the rights to KS?". I'm sure there is some situation where we would, just l...

ok23 wrote:in the act 2 cinematics for hanako the first image is a smoking pipe? is that what started the fire?

I know cpl_crud wrote that scene where there was a blackout because of the winter weather and her mom used a candle/oil lamp thing

It's a bottle of (Hisao's) medicine, with a shadow.

That brings another query to mind: Who did your proofreading? Or, rather, was anyone specifically assigned to the task of editing the game's text? I imagine you policed yourselves to some extent, but even a practiced eye can miss flaws in its own work. I know I do; more often than I care to admit. ...

Had I known about this in its infancy, I would have leaped at the chance to contribute. It's an interesting thought experiment at the very least. I wonder, though, what were some of your motivations when you first heard about KS? Interest in visual novels. The Tsukihime translation was released jus...

How many devs signed on because they find disability interesting in and of itself (either boner-inducing, or just 'cool thought experiment', or whatever)? No need to name names, obviously. As far as I know, none. The primary interest we had was in the visual novel medium. That said, maybe someone j...

So yeah my question is, Rins ending had a tint of your morals, correct? Reading a few past post of yours I can see you have that ''self accepted'' attitude, or just a general acceptance attitude to begin with. My favorite quote from her was about her saying it was alright to be her. That's a trait ...

Who held the source files of the game during production? Or did everyone have a copy in order to prevent the project from dieing if the person quit? Who made the character sprites. I don't think I've seen anything like it before. Our server did. We used a version control system on the development v...

Did the team ever facing any heavy debate or really heated up situation among devs when making KS (regarding writing, visual translation or correction)? Did the team ever suffer bad times because of it? (leaving dev, slower progression, stop communicating, etc) Assuming you answer yes, how does the...

Apologies if any of these have already been asked: 1. How have the devs found settling back into "normal" life after the game's release? I imagine that finishing something that you've been working on for something like 20 hours a week (according to cpl_crud's blog) for 5 years must leave a pretty h...

Well perhaps you are not the right person to ask but why did hanako's route end so fast? I mean the ending scene is REALLY good but i feel like there should be more, as we never even got to see them grow. (Sorry my writing im on my phone) All stories must end at some point, and the writers felt it ...