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[TheHivemind]

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"

"Then we called one another nasty names for an hour. Then one of us quit. Then we argued for four hours about the way someone's trousers looked."

[Bad Apple]

...And thus, Emisha was officially born...

My God, what have you done!

You act as if it wasn't already a thing.

A search of the fanfiction forum would demonstrate otherwise.

With emphasis on officially if I may be so bold... Just like I "officially" could not resist making a godawful romantic portmanteau name for the sake of pun and now will promptly excuse myself as I am running late for my execution by firing squad.

[TheHivemind]

...And thus, Emisha was officially born...

My God, what have you done!

You act as if it wasn't already a thing.

A search of the fanfiction forum would demonstrate otherwise.

With emphasis on officially if I may be so bold... Just like I "officially" could not resist making a godawful romantic portmanteau name for the sake of pun and now will promptly excuse myself as I am running late for my execution by firing squad.

I can only suggest that you search for developer names in the fanfiction forum to get your "officially" date correct.

[Liminaut]

A Comedy of Errors: The Making Of Katawa Shoujo

Totally a musical.

[Liminaut]

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"

I suspect the blog is what I'm going to get , but I can see that a synthesis and exploration could be valuable.

For instance, in the section that Bad Apple points to I'm impressed by how many times the group trashed what they had and started over again. I suspect that's why KS wound up with such a high quality product; people were willing to start over again. "Plan on throwing one away" has been a principle of good software development since "The Mythical Man-Month". In software circles this has been expanded to "Fail Fast", the principle that most ideas are bad ones and the key to getting good work is to junk bad work as quickly as possible. This creates a non-trivial ego issue in that one has to invest emotionally in a particular work to even get it to the stage where one can say it's dreck, but then one has to freely give up on the work when the junk is junked.

On the other hand, perfectionism is a known way of driving a company out of business. "Duke Nukem Forever" is a classic example here. So there has to be a balance between the drive for quality and the drive to actually get something out. This may be an area where volunteers can produce dramatically higher quality work that funded companies. After all, what would KS have looked like if you all had been working at a company with a budget and had to ship whatever you had at the end of two years?

Ah well. If it doesn't happen it doesn't happen. I just wanted to toss the idea out there.

[Merlyn_LeRoy]

Weee has recently written a blog entry on working on KS.

(tx to _AnIcePerson_ on reddit)

[ArcCain]

Who did the 100% clear art?

[Silentcook]

Climatic did.

[TheVUP]

Weee has recently written a blog entry on working on KS.

(tx to _AnIcePerson_ on reddit)

Just wanna say thanks.

[Liminaut]

Weee has recently written a blog entry on working on KS.

(tx to _AnIcePerson_ on reddit)

Thats a lot for the link ... and for Weee for writing it.

[Atario]

Searched for this, but could not find it if it has already been answered, so if it has, please for to forgiving.

How old were the various devs at the time of the game's release? (Reading the recent Weee blog post, I never knew she was so amazingly young, so it got me curious…)

[TheHivemind]

Searched for this, but could not find it if it has already been answered, so if it has, please for to forgiving.

How old were the various devs at the time of the game's release? (Reading the recent Weee blog post, I never knew she was so amazingly young, so it got me curious…)

26. I think.

[cpl_crud]

Searched for this, but could not find it if it has already been answered, so if it has, please for to forgiving.

How old were the various devs at the time of the game's release? (Reading the recent Weee blog post, I never knew she was so amazingly young, so it got me curious…)

A young 29 when it was released.

[Silentcook]

43. Old man of the bunch.

[Atario]

43. Old man of the bunch.

This actually makes me feel better. I was starting to think everyone involved in this was young enough to be my kid, and it was making me feel depressingly old…