1. Yes.Liminaut wrote:I've got a question about doing KS. It took 5 years, and I'm guessing that there were times when individually or as a group the devs felt like just hanging it up and doing something else.
Were there times like that? What kept you going?
When we tell about our projects publically it won't be as a reply to a question in this thread. But hey, here's Hivemind's new project "Harrison Tripp": https://twitter.com/Harrison_TrippArcadiaM wrote:I know this has probably been asked but im tired to read through all the questions i just came off playing the game for about 8 hours.
Have any of the members of four leaf studio's started a new project yet and why are you opposed to fan's possibly making a sequel if FLS dont plan too
That last line...is it me or that's Mordin from Mass effect ?:DAura wrote: When we tell about our projects publically it won't be as a reply to a question in this thread.
Has to be us. Someone else might get it wrong.
As Aura pointed out, our new projects are generally announced in places that aren't Ask threads--somewhere (which I do not recall) you can find a great list of our respective twitters, tumblrs, and other forms of communication where new projects are announced (and yes, Harrison Tripp can be found on twitter and on libsyn, as well as any other podcasting deal (podbay, iTunes, etc.).ArcadiaM wrote:I know this has probably been asked but im tired to read through all the questions i just came off playing the game for about 8 hours.
Have any of the members of four leaf studio's started a new project yet and why are you opposed to fan's possibly making a sequel if FLS dont plan too
Not really. A lot of the criticism leveled at the game is criticism we ourselves leveled at the game--Hisao is kind of a fucking idiot, the writing is super-amateruish in spots etc. etc. Occasionally someone will point out a repeated phrase or description that I leaned on heavily (sweat apparently shows up a lot in Emi's route) and I'll stare in disbelief for a few minutes before realizing that yeah, that's absolutely right. Then I shrug my shoulders, add something else to my "avoid doing this so goddamn much in the future" list, and move on. Even at launch, I at least was pretty willing to admit that the writing could have been better--but at the time that was about the best I could do, and thinking endlessly about what could have been better is a road upon which I prefer not to travel.Atario wrote:Conversely from my previous question: have there been any outside criticisms of the game that have gotten under the skins of any of the devs? If so, what were they?
An epilogue, especially one after the credits roll, is just an arbitrary way to lengthen a story, or I guess a way to ensure folks see all the credits. If you wanted to end your story somewhere else, just fucking end it somewhere else. You don't need to pick up after we've seen the end of the narrative arc. Like that god-awful Harry Potter ending. Good lord, what a sour note to end things on--"and then they all had babies and named them after their dead parents and friends" is lame as hell. It's the sort of thing that you'd see on fanfiction.net, not in a goddamn published novel. Childish shit.ArcCain wrote:Aura wrote:Suriko is the only one who doesn't think that epilogues suck ass.
What do you think is wrong about epilogues?
Hmm, I can understand what you are getting at with the, "if its over its over" way of seeing it. I guess epilogues are meant to add more closure to a story?TheHivemind wrote:Suriko, obviously, does not share my antipathy towards epilogues, and that is of course absolutely fine. The path was his to write, and he wrote it in the way he wanted to, and people seem to like it so that all worked out for the best, don't you think?
the anal part was the most classic part i'd say:)) but yeah agreed with you on lilly:) i'm the boring guy who loves the classic boy meets girl and normal love story in a VN with all kinds of love storie..emi's was great as well:D i find girls like emi who go you should kiss me already before the bell rings interestingArcCain wrote:
Hmm, I can understand what you are getting at with the, "if its over its over" way of seeing it. I guess epilogues are meant to add more closure to a story?
Personally, I always felt that Lilly's path was like a traditional, "boy meets blind girl" movie. It had some clichés, yes, but if I remember correctly that's what Raita noted on Lilly. Plus it was nice with a more "classic" love story make it in to KS. Of-course, you could say that Emi's path was, at times, "classic" as well.
)This made me blink and check. The word or its derivatives crop up exactly twice, in two separate acts of Shizune's path.bhtooefr wrote:Speaking of overused phrases, how did A22's abuse of "pistoning" in H-scenes ever get past the editors?
