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ivegottogodosomething wrote:Have any of you, the devs had similar emotional experiences while playing this game to what so many of us have had, or did being so involved in the creation process make that impossible?

No, none of us do that I'm aware of.

New Age Retro Hippie wrote:Was the kid with the damaged/missing ear from Hisao's class/the art club ever supposed to have a portrait or dialogue? I was almost disappointed when I saw him in the art club but never got to interact with him, especially since it indicated that the two were not on the best of terms. :P

No.

Caesius wrote:Who on the team was the most persistent/annoying in getting other people off their lazy asses to do shit?

Different people got pestered by different people. Probably moekki.

It's not like I'm a lawyer, but as far as I can see the name is not a copyright issue, it's a trademark issue. Raita does not "own" the name, and neither do us, and fair use is a concept that is completely unrelated to the usage of the name.

What do you think about this "Katawa Shoujo Plus" project? http://ks.renai.us/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5721 Licence stuff aside (the game licence explicitely forbids this so technically I have to be strictly against it), I think the general sentiment is that we wish people would spend their efforts on ...

Nice, a question thread, and a pretty popular one :) I was wondering, are you all extremely empathic and gifted writers or could some of you relate to the strong emotions of the characters because of personal experience? No. Or maybe no, but... a story always has something of its writer in it. Only...

I daresay, you put together a project that well matches commercially made ones, and has impressed people who have played it all the world over. Hats off to you guys. That being said, i wonder exactly what resources you utilized to make this envisioning into a reality masterpiece. RenPy is obvious, ...

Hi, and thanks for the wonderful VN. I hope you will consider doing more in the future! Here's a question- how does it feel seeing your free title more popular than most current multi-million dollar releases? http://nowplaying.gamedifferences.com/ Thanks! :) What can I say? It's of course wonderful...

I did, and still do, struggle a lot with getting my English to sound good in prose, which is a lot harder than fluency is casual everyday speech. I think that's true for a lot of native speakers, too. What sound okay out loud looks like crap when you can sit there and stare at in on a page. Does th...

My ask is: Which font was used for Katawa Shoujo, specifically the logo, but the text ingame as well? Also, it's obvious that the pictures used ingame are pretty darn huge, as sometimes (Hanako's snooker scene for example) it'll do a closeup of her face which is still in great quality, despite only...

Bokito wrote:Have you ever heard anything from RAITA after you completed the VN based on his sketches?

No.

JustAGuy wrote:Where'd you guys get the miscellaneous sounds (people chatting, rain, the airplanes in Lilly's FMV) from? Did you record them yourselves?

They're from random sound libraries an such.

Guest wrote:There was a line in the first act: "My parents, I think, were hit harder by the news than I was. They practically had two hemorrhages apiece."

Was that a reference to The Catcher in the Rye?

yes

McBaggin wrote:Have you guys ever or will consider releasing a detail map of how Yamaku Academy looks?

If anyone ever cares to draw a good map of it, why not. Don't hold your breath though.

A question for Aura (not strictly related to KS though): how did you get to the point where you can write a story that is thousands of words long in a foreign language, and write it better than a lot of native speakers could do? In addition to formal education and osmosis through using English ever...