/evn/ - English Visual Novels

Dead at 138 lol. Third-world anon reporting for Good Friday bumping.

Sorry about that, I was watching a Chinese imperial harem drama.

Even yuri can't save /evn/.

>>136374297
based WC

I missed you guys.

What's the best way to show the MC?
Half body behind textbox
Small face/shoulders inside textbox
Small Body in front of text box
Or something else?

>>136376525
I prefer either none or a normal sprite like the other characters.

>>136376525
there is no best way so do what you like.

>>136374297
Winged Cloud is saving yuri.

>>136378621
It's probably just a dream sequence

>>136381659
What's the point of making a game with 20+ year olds if they all look thirteen?

>>136381879
Makes people feel better about their natural pedo desires.

>>136381879
on the plus side you can get past the Steam Pedo Gatekeepers.

>>136381879
All Characters Are At Least 18 Years Of Age

>Welcome to Romantic Retirement
>All characters are at least 80 years old.
>All text enlarged to %300 of normal size,
>for your easy reading pleasure.

Also bmpu.

>>136385615
>Romantic Retirement

retirement homes are basically real-life eroge.

>>136385615
That's p. cute tbqh.

>>136386078
Hell yeah, pops is getting it busy. He isn't controlled by his benis since it doesn't function like it used to, so he's all about the romance.

>Coming Winter 2017
>Please remember to take your meds, and we'll see you then!

>>136386078
Oh man, too bad the MC probably has no energy to do so many characters.

>>136386078
retirement homes are real-life yuri eroge, all the men die off first

although I suppose you could be the last man standing, trying to score before your heart gives out

>>136388820
>witty, ambitious woman with a sharp wit
Maybe if they say it enough, it'll be true.

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Since the thread seems to keep dying without any drama around, let me make some. I did an edit to Tao's recent character design, but probably not the one most people were expecting. Her lips are fine, but I prefer girls with a clearer skin tone, so I erased her freckles. Opinions?

>>136390101
I still think those lips make it feel like her face is melting

>>136390101
The freckles were cute.

>>136369882
and what game is this pic from ?

>>136390518
I thought they made her look too young for her age (assuming she's around college age like Nadia) and that they detracted from her eyepatch.

>>136390663
The eyepatch already blends in with the hair, the eye color is the first thing I noticed, with or without freckles.
I think the freckles are just a matter of preference like you said.

>>136390101
Looked much better with freckles imo. This is why I don't ask 4chan for help with character designs. Everyone has an ideal design for each and every character.

I remember in old /ic/ people used to constantly get critiques of their artwork. Should change this, change that, I don't like this, this is too short, etc, etc. Eventually you'd end up with a husk of a character that has no appeal. Like some kind of Frankenstein born out of everyone's separate ideologies of exactly what a character should be.

PS bump

>>136390101
let it go
let it gooooo~

>>136391127
My eyes kept being drawn to them instead of her eyepatch, but that might be because I'm sensitive to imperfections on the skin.

The trope youthful freckles also came to mind and combined with her petite stature, made me think she was a young teen(16 years old max). Considering the ages of the rest of the cast though, I'm assuming she's in her early twenties.

>>136391613
Weirdo spotted.

>>136391551
I'm not the same person. I just don't want the thread to die again. You come up with a better way to keep the thread going.

>>136391707
That's my line.

bump

>>136391765
Keeping a thread alive with drama or shit posting is the worst idea. Let them die, or simply bump with empty posts before resorting to such things.

Is Solstice any good?

There's also a new free evn http://store.steampowered.com/app/445230/

>>136392017
this.

>>136391613
She's supposed to look like a loli, dummy. Looking young is the whole point.

>>136392689
He should've given her a lolipop.

>>136392521
>cute art
>free to play

Nice.

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>>136392521
Count the number of things wrong with this screenshot.

>>136392689
Trigger warning click below at your own risk.
What kind of loli has slut lips?

What nanoreno releases are you looking forward to?

>>136393134
Exactly. That's why they look bad. She has a loli's body with a slutty older woman's face.

>>136393224
None of them

>>136392521
>Someone shitposting as nano in the reviews
This is a sad day.

>>136393287
You forgot your trigger warning.

>>136391551
are you the one writing a frozen VN?

>>136393134
>>136393287
but girls have lips. There are many animus with lips. Reminds me of Saya from blood+.

Disney ships the Frozen sisters. I saw a t-shirt at my local Walmart that had them holding hands and gazing at each others eyes romantically.

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>>136393557
I never really saw Saya as petite though. She always looked mature to me too.

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Have you played the King of EVNs yet?

>>136393130
Everything looks perfect to me.

>>136393941
True. Maybe the artist is French? French artists love adding lips to their art. They make it look pretty good too.

>>136394106
>Made in Ren'Py
I bet that's something PyTom is proud of.

>>136394221
If you mean the above sprite, then I'm pretty sure he's from the US.

>>136390101
Legs are still fucked

>>136390530
A shitty one

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>>136394221
What do you think of this other one he drew?

>>136393525
no but im writing a yuri incest vn.

>>136394518
>That voluptuous body
>Those Africa starving tier thighs

No. This is a crime.

>>136394518
An abomination sent from the depths of hell.

>>136394337
Why wouldn't he be proud knowing that the greatest EVN to date was made with his help?

>>136394807
Why are all characters either too fat or not fat enough?

>>136395023
Jokes aside, it is very well presented. Production quality in face.

>>136369882
Spoonfeed me OP

>>136395076
I like almost any size of character, but they really should be consistent throughout if it's a single character. Stick legs supporting a Greek Goddess upper body does not computer.

>>136395119
I wasn't joking.

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I want to lick her flat chest.

>>136395231
>her

>>136395227
But it's not real, so what does realism matter? It's anime style, so it especially doesn't matter.

>>136395357
It matters when it looks bad.

>>136395338
Are you one of the plebs who thought she was a dude?

I wasn't sure at first myself, I was 50/50 on whether she was female or not. I'm bisexual, so she was hot either way it turned out.

>>136394807
I think he wanted to give her a thigh gap but you can't have your cake and eat it too. Either make a fatty or make somebody who can actually have a thigh gap.

>>136395357
I bet anything you'd say a loli with Z-cups looked weird. It's about proportions, not realism. Having a thick character with tiny chicken legs just looks odd.

>>136395357
>It's anime style, so it especially doesn't matter.
Lots of stuff on deviantart is anime style too, doesn't mean it can't look bad, wrong, or off. Anime style art is still art. It doesn't get a special pass just because it's animu style. Anyway, it's personal preference. You asked me why and I answered, but now you sound like you're trying to change my mind on the matter? You startin somethin bro?

>>136395468
But it's all a matter of opinion, so nothing can objectively look bad!

>>136395573
>I bet anything you'd say a loli with Z-cups looked weird.
Imouto Paradise vn looks just fine to me.

>>136395619
It's all a matter of opinion, so anything can look bad to me and I can bitch about it.

>>136395619
Literally none of the characters in Imopara fit that description.

>>136396102
Nobody has a Z-cup in anything, that's not a thing

>>136397362
>102zzz
>Triple Z
Oh but it is, friend. Watch at your own peril.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h-vTuFKNf4

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>>136397362

I offer to you, one final bump, before I go into the night.

How to /evn/ Easter?

>>136369882
Google gave nothing, what game is this?

>>136385615
>%300 larger text
that doesn't sound bad desu
especially for EVN with awful color choices for textbox and font

>>136393130
I like the toggle-able quick menu button desu

How 2 choose colors?

>>136403118
steal palette from something else?

>>136403914
That's not good, anon.

>>136404349
it's alright for beginners. learning values is far more important than color.

But I don't want to receive the scorn of an increasingly Leftist LSF...

>>136404651
You really shouldn't care about LSF.

>>136404651
I'm not sure that means what you think it means.

>tfw you don't really like how one of the routes is turning out, but afraid to say anything in case the writer bolts

>>136406156
Do you really think they would quit because someone voiced some concerns?

>>136406483
Who knows, some people are touchy as fuck.

>>136393557

Or Chimera Ant Kite who was a loli with lips/

even gentler, sleepier bump

It's not like I want you to live or anything

What is the point of kinetic novels? I really don't understand. Why not just read/write a book? You'd get a lot more assurance of it being actually worth your time.

>>136413452
I guess people just prefer the medium and want to present their story with art and music.

That said, I personally agree with you that it seems kind of pointless. Lack of user interactivity is a big minus in my book. And that's why I got bored with Grisaia after it failed to give me a single decision for at least four hours of reading.

>>136413452
Why does there need to be a point? It's just another form of storytelling.

A book and a KN should not be compared to each other. They are entirely different mediums, the reading experience, the writing style, everything is vastly different. It may not be for everyone, and some developers may not show it for all its strengths, but the KN medium has the potential to provide a very powerful work and should not be discounted just because it lacks choices.

>>136413452
Why even read comic books or watch movies? Just read books

>>136413452
What is the point of fiction? Just live real life.

P10LEB

>>136397582
Make it stop.

>>136407709
Wait until they're finished with the rest of it and then say something about it.

>>136413756
Even though people think that vns should be full of choices, the fact is that many of them aren't. I've played many 25-30 hour games that either had few and far between choices, or seemingly pointless choices that didn't really effect much.

Kinetic novels are no exception. You can have transitions, animations, and changes in poses and expressions just like any other vn. The story and characters become much more important in that type of vn.

>>136369882
Source please!

>>136419202
My Little Sister Invited Me To Hot Springs And Now Her Crush Is Touching My Penis?!!
coming (heh heh) in 2017

Confess /evn/.
How many of you are currently using highly-saturated hair dye.

>>136420909
My hair is buzzed so no.

>>136420909
I'm just making gaems

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>>136420909
>not embracing your natural beauty/hideousness

>>136420909
I'm a failed human, I have no need for hair dye.

>>136418748
Yeah, I'm aware. I personally prefer otherwise, but a good VN can definitely be written with minimal user input.

>>136420909
I hate hair dye with a burning passion.

>>136422457
What did it ever do to you?

>>136422680
Frizz. And crazy exes.

>>136369882
could someone please give us the name to the vn in op's picture? It's a fetish thing I'm chasing I don't care if it's good or bad.

>>136420909
I am natural

>>136422951
What exactly is making you interested about it?

>>136423176
the art looks great and having women demand I masturbate in front of them turns me on

>>136422951
I don't feel like looking through all of their stuff to get the title, but the art looks like something from an artist whose Patreon was posted in the last thread:

https://www.patreon.com/marblesyrup?ty=h

Have fun?

>>136423675
instantly found it on that link, thanks bro

>>136423834
No prob. Go crazy, you perve.

>>136423047
lewd

>>136420909
No, hypersaturated hair dye is for Tumblr users

>>136420909
it looks like shit unless you have flawless skin and wear heavy makeup and what kind of dev has time for this

>>136420909
I want to dye my hair green and do photosynthesis.

>>136420909
I should so people stop calling me grandpa.

p10lqb

>>136420909
I would except my hair is too dark to take on dye without bleaching it first and that's too much effort

>>136435706
[x] punch in the boob

>>136436294
>put it in

>>136435706
You can't be funny and smart. That's against the rules.

>>136437929
Well then they better lock you up, anon. Because you're both to me ;)

>>136437929
You can if you're a huge piece of human garbage in any other aspect, like me.

Tfw Black Sands becomes vn of the year.

>>136440338
But anon, surely the brilliance of Highway Blossoms, which should only be experienced in its whole purity, will outshine all else?

>>136440338

but it's not a VN, it's a (insert pretentious word that means basically the same).

>>136440338
game looks nice but they need to fix the performance issues. and the dev needs to shut up forever.

Tao's doing a series of posts about Let'sPlays and vn sales on Twitter. Do the plays really not see a spike in sales?

>>136444924
They do if you're actually somebody. Has an EVN ever been played by an actual "A-list" e-celeb rather than the hundreds of D-listers?

>>136444924
They absolutely do, IF it's played by someone who has a sufficiently high viewer count and IF the game looks like fun / tempts the watcher to try it themselves.

Getting TotalBiscuit to play your game is worth a ton of money. Dodger is worth money. Some random with 1000 followers isn't noticeable.

>>136440338
>$5k PC
>Can't run nigger "VN"
Yeah, nah.

>>136446431

Toko was played by Dodger and Tao's saying sales didn't even bump. Those videos have tons of likes and views and positive feedback. I think getting TB or Dodger to play your game earning you sales is only true for non-linear games.

>>136444924
>Do the plays really not see a spike in sales?

he's saying if you have a super linear KN that can be played in a little over one hour it will kill sales.

which is arguably another problem in itself.

>>136446431
>IF the game looks like fun / tempts the watcher to try it themselves

Let me repeat that for emphasis. You want people to see an LP and feel interested but unsatisfied, so they go and play the game themselves.

If a game is SHORT, and has NO CHOICES, why would the watchers go and buy it? They've just been given the whole thing on a platter.

If a game is LONG, then only cheapskates are going to watch the whole thing in an LP (which might never finish). Many players, if they're interested, will drop the LP and go to play the game themselves. If they're not interested enough to buy at all, or can't afford it, they'll just stick with the LP.

If a game has CHOICES, then you watch the LPer and you think "I wouldn't do that, I would do this instead" and that motivates you to go get the game yourself.

>>136446746
Toko is like an hour long.

Help, I need a good idea for an interactive sexy VN. I had one, but I decided I didn't like it because it's too hard to implement reasonably.

Well, from personal experience, if I watch a game on a letsplay I have no incentive to play the game. That's how I view most games now. Watching other people play them. For something like a visual novel, I can't really see it being that good of a thing to have someone play your game in it's entirety. TB is a different story though, since he would just review it (he doesn't review VNs btw).

>>136447035

That's an exaggeration, if you look at the reviews to see average play length, it's closer to 2-3 hours depending on your reading speed. Dodger did multiple videos of it all with high view counts and that should have increased sales but he claims it didn't.

>>136447213
Orgasm Girl 2016 edition

> https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/monstrous-lovers-a-boy-s-love-visual-novel#/
>11k

good luck but whew. hope you have your shill game on.

>>136447578
Anything more VN like?

>>136448326
Orgasm Girl 2016 Edition: Story Expansion

>>136448045
You might want to clarify the voice acting will be in Spanish.

>>136448045
Yeah, that's what I'll be doing this whole month.

>>136448842
I knew I was forgetting something. I just added it.

>>136448503
I don't know about this anon.

>>136448045
"Rotwang" still sounds like a venereal disease (yeah I know that's what the guy in the movie was called)

>>136450250

Well, a lot of German in general sounds like venereal diseases.

I have no motivation. I'm out of ideas. I hate it when this happens.

>>136452663
Spend a year or two totally depressed and then suddenly get inspired.

>>136447548
I played it in under an hour.

>>136453013
space bar masher detected

SLOW DOWN SPACE MASHER

>>136452919
I just spent about 10 years being depressed, I don't think any inspiration is coming from that.

>>136453208
Hmm then I'm out of ideas. Perhaps its time to change something.

>>136447548
Review length is inflated by needing to idle for trading cards, anon.

>>136453079
If I were doing that it would have been under 10 minutes.

Look at the playtime of people doing LPs with intro and outro and reading every single line aloud and pausing to make jokes. If it's only taking THEM 2-3 hours, it's a lot faster for people just reading the thing.

Unless you only read at a mumbling-everything-under-your-breath speed.

>>136448045
>indiegogo
>fixed funding
but why

>>136453520
also don't forget when they pause at the wacky CG scenes and take 10 minutes panning over it and making stupid faces.

I'm talking about LP'ers I've seen play other VNs mostly though, since I haven't seen/read The Demon Reject. Assuming it's the same.

>>136453752
Removed the fixed funding part and I would have the same question. I thought Kickstarter would have the widest reach and be the easiest to hit such a large goal. Is Kickstarter not available for some countries?

>>136453752

Kickstarter works through bank transfers, Indiegogo with paypal. Ignoring the fact that I would be taxed on the spot for the amount (and that the process to open a US account became too expensive recently), if the currency exchange rate were to fluctuate drastically like it has been in the past months I'd risk losing as much as 20% of the money when I had to pay people.

This wouldn't be a problem if we made a lot of $$ over the goal, but if we only got the 11k then we'd be short.

>>136454064
No, it's not.

>>136454064
>Kickstarter not available for some countries?
no for a variety of reasons from being banned to needing a recognized bank account.

imo ML campaign should have set the VA as a stretch goal.

>>136454819
>imo ML campaign should have set the VA as a stretch goal.

I have my heart set on VAs, but if it all goes south chances are that's what I'll do.

>>136453910
or fanning themselves like fainting flowers at the slightest hint of boobies

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So, for numerous reasons, I decided to go for a separate CG artist from the main sprite artist I have for my monster girl game.

Obviously their style wasn't going to be able to 100% match the sprites, but I feel like they've done a really good job so far. Maybe the faces look a little different, but I'm hoping it won't be too jarring for people when it swaps between the two.

Spoilered just to be safe, though isn't really that NSFW.

>>136456776
whatever brings in the big bucks. Lost Pause has built himself an empire on making stupid faces at breasts

>>136456805
what do the sprites look like?

>>136456805

As long as it's not Wild Catgirl Appears! tier I think people will be fine.

>>136457128
I put the sprite of the mummy on the right of the CG for comparison

>>136456805
>Mummy
>Not embalmed
Wry?

>>136457503
If it's that similar you're worrying about nothing at all.

>>136457734
I like my mummies full of life. And hometown.

>>136455045
One of my followers points out that 'incorrigible' is misspelled in Vincent's character promo.

>>136456805
That's quite close, few people will notice at all if it's mostly like that.

Honestly sometimes even the same artist has more jump between sprite and CG than that appears to be.

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I am bored. writers, describe to me your character and i will draw the one with the most interesting design tomorrow.

>>136457884
>>136459141

Thanks, guys. That puts some of my worries to rest.

Going to have a demo out in the next couple of weeks or so, featuring two lewd scenes. That should hopefully be enough to generate interest for the full version.
Or I find out my lewd writing abilities are crap and everyone laughs at me. ;_;

>>136459867
Slime and mummy?

>>136459867
I'm just amazed that I'm not the only one in here working on a monster girl type VN. You seem to be a lot further along than me though. I'll look forward to the demo then.

>>136458997
ha, figures that I have read the blurbs so many times my brain just kind of skips over the words. I'll got fix it, thanks!

>>136460432
Yup! The ending of the demo will tease a third character (out of 5, each having two scenes each), but there's no actual scene with her included.

>>136460769
I was kind of surprised to find out there were so few monster girl EVNs when I started mine. We gotta stick together, man. Looking forward to seeing your project, too.

This project pretty much is just smut for smut's sake, though. I'm not pretending to be making some kind of big, deep story out of it. Somehow I get the feeling most people buying it would be okay with that, so long as there's at least some semblance of a plot to link together the lewds.

>>136420909
It's pastel now because I haven't touched it up in a while.
I like lavender tho so it's fine.

>>136458997
>>136461442

I just realized it's spelled wrongly because I wrote it in spanish.

jfc.

>>136460769
>I'm just amazed that I'm not the only one in here working on a monster girl type VN.
There's at least three of us here.

>>136461815
Awesome. I can't wait to show it off, but it will probably be a while since I'm slow and working alone. I was also surprised how few there are. We'll just have to change that I guess. Where are you planning on selling yours, if you don't mind me asking?

>>136463258
Any progress pictures or blogs I can follow? I'm a huge fan of monster girls.

>>136463653
>Where are you planning on selling yours, if you don't mind me asking?

coming soon, monster girl bundle.

>>136463653
Haven't reached out to anyone yet since I was waiting until I had more to show for it.

I'm thinking Mangagamer, DLsite, and I think somebody here suggested denpasoft, too. I'll have to get in touch with each one and see what happens.

>>136464183
It's too bad there's no r-18 on steam.

>>136445237
Lost Pause seems to have the highest view count in evn.

>>136464675
It does suck. I know most people are getting around that these days by selling the all-ages version of their game and then offering an uncensoring patch off-site, but I don't think I could get away with that, considering my VN would be missing the majority of its content in an 'all-ages' version.

Unless I invested in non-lewd CGs and rewrote the scenes. But that would be too much time and money for something I probably wouldn't even earn back. Plus, who wants non-lewd monster girls? What's the point

>>136465250
>who wants non-lewd monster girls? What's the point
Not everything's got to be porn.

>>136446919
I think being super long is what possibly made people buy Princess Evangile after watching its videos.

>>136447035
It took me 2 hours. And after that I had to idle for cards.

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>>136463852
I've got a tumblr, but it's half progress, half shitposting.

I might link the demo when I'm done with it, though.

>>136453356
The game didn't get cards until months after it released. Most of the reviews are before then.

>>136466104
Doesn't the playtime still update after the review?

>>136465792
What's the point of having a tumblr if you're not going to whore it out everywhere?

>>136467092
I thought it was a snapshot of when the review was posted, if so, then the time wouldn't update.

>>136465483
Everything must be porn.

>>136467590
Every profile I've checked on other games the review-stated playtime matches their total playtime. It's possible that not one of them have ever played a game after reviewing it, but seems less likely.

>>136446552
>5k PC
Why

>>136469151
Probably bought a prebuilt "gaming PC"

>>136459623
A lewd little girl with tan skin and slicked back hair.
Do I win by default?

>>136465483
Said nobody ever.

>>136470449
Said me, who loves porn.

>$1600 to get 40,000 words from someone competent

guess i will be writing.

>>136459623
Atrocious art.

>>136475413
Are you that anti-lip anon? Just curious.

>>136475413
That's far from atrocious art bro. It's just in a style you don't like.

>>136476486
>there couldn't possibly be more than one person who thought the new sprite looked bad

>>136476763
I realize that. I'm just genuinely curious. There aren't many trolls around here so the dickwads and abrasive posters really stand out I noticed.

How much money do I need to throw at an artist so they could do dis? http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=651346103
How do I explain that I'm not dreaming about the scope?
How do I stop them from complaining about the aesthetic I want -- Should I throw even more money?
Will money be really enough?

>>136478046
If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

>>136478046
The question isn't whether money would be enough, it's whether you have enough.

>>136478046
You do realize that's made by an actual studio in Japan right? A studio with multiple professionals with plenty of experience. Most likely more than one artist, etc. I'm not saying you can't buy that kind of talent to help you out, but I hope you have some major cash. I'm not talking about hiring someone off deviantart for a couple hundred either.

Tried the Pale Spectrum demo: are you supposed to have played Brilliant Shadows to get it? It was full of short segments of story with characters that I assume were featured in another story and I simply didn't understand what this is going to be about, it didn't seem to have a hook.

>>136483704
>Pale Spectrum is the sequel to Brilliant Shadows
gee anon I don't know

>>136484632
It's limiting your audience if it makes no sense without the original, though. Throwing newbies a bone is not a bad plan.

>>136484845
Or you could just go check out the original game instead of wondering why the immediate sequel doesn't make any sense.

>>136484845
>>136483704
really ?

>>136459623

23 year old girl
short, black hair with a bang
is very curious, eager to learn
easygoing
jokingly flirtatious
self-aware that she's fictional

basically told in a character interview that she's fictional, she doesn't exist in reality, but that's ok.
given the offer that she learn more about the real world, or become blissfully unaware of her fictionality she chooses the truth.

>>136485104
i'm just saying in general, if your sequel makes absolutely no sense alone, you've capped your potential customers so advertising to anyone other than them is wasted

>>136486214
Do you pick out random books in the middle of series and expect them to make sense?

>>136486214
jfc

>>136476982
I really dislike the hugbox mentality that some places have. You can't speak negative about anything without a bunch of artists and their jerkers coming to shit on you.

That said, no, I don't know who anti-lip is nor do I care. I just find it interesting how you have to assign 'names' on an anomyous image board.

>>136486492
Have you noticed how many books these days DON'T label themselves as 'book 3 of 5' and DO include a little bit of basic grounding information, for precisely this reason?

I am baffled that this concept seems new to you. I'm not even the guy who first posted about the kickstarter, I'm just talking about general marketing strategies.

>>136487731
>hugbox
>shit on you

Either you don't understand some of the words you're using or you're intentionally misusing them.

>>136487731
>hugbox mentality
You seem to be implying that in order for a place to not be a 'hugbox' it must be full of assholes, which is not correct at all. If you can't handle not being a dick, maybe you just need a break from the Internet. I know it helps me when I feel like being a shit to everyone. Saying something sucks is completely useless to everyone. If you're going to say something is shit, at least give a reason why. This thread is largely troll and shitpost free, so there's no reason to bring the 4chan mentality on full force here.

>Atrocious art.

Come on, really? Are you just trying to be edgy? Do you think being an asshole is your 'escape' from what you claim to be a widespread 'hugbox' mentality? I doubt you ever post anything anywhere, but if someone ever replies to anything you made with a comment like that, you want to know why at least. Tell them why their art is atrocious. I won't even ask you to post your art, since you clearly don't make any(you seem very bitter about artists).

Do you want to talk about it? Something to get off your chest?

>>136488420
I'm not retarded, so I've never needed this sort of thing.

>>136489286
Just ignore them instead of going full lecture mode.

>>136489969
You may not be, but customers often are.

> sakura spirit manga

Finally, fapping without the pesky visual novel part.

>>136490224
I guess I can't argue with that when there's evidence in this very thread. But anyway, their campaign succeeded, so it reached the people that mattered and could actually comprehend the word sequel.

>>136490435
i am so baffled by this.

>>136489286
>This thread, for once, is largely troll and shitpost free
ftfy

>>136489286
>This thread is largely troll and shitpost free
It is also post and purpose free

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...and I'm done for tonight. Sleep tight, /evn/. Don't die while I'm gone.

>>136503560
I promise we will

goodnight sweet Anon

>>136476763
I can honestly say I only made a few posts to vent myself after I saw it for the first time. I've gotten more used to it now, and wouldn't even be bothered if Tao doesn't change anything at this point. I wasn't the only one who posted about not liking it though, and I wasn't even the first one to say 'whore lips'. I don't plan on bringing it up again, so whatever.

>>136511563
cute enough to want to sit next to

>>136513658
What's wrong with his face?

>>136513904
He was stripped of all his manliness and turned into the equivalent of an uguu moe little girl.

>>136459623
guy with a really gaunt face with visible cheekbones (kinda sharp/starved looking), bloodshot left eye with the skin sagging and bruised underneath and the eye itself is half rolled up into the back of his skull so he can't use it, a gash/cut that makes his upper lip curl up on one side, large bruise on the neck (which is long and distended very unnatural looking), but really nice hair kinda soft looking curls. Not ohoho ringlets or a 4c kind of afro puff but just a loose mop of short curls.
if you do actually draw it, you can do fresh bruises/cuts or old ones and even add some around the face if you want, go nuts. As long as he looks like he got fucked up at some point in his life you're golden
also his skin is kinda bluish and he has pointy ears

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> I’ve always had a passion for writing ever since I taught myself how to read at the age of fourteen.

um

>>136459867
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcx3fcNlnSM

>>136516484
Third worlders mang

>>136517928
Also they're going to make a non-linear game with 20+ fully voiced characters, in a year, for $5k.

>>136519749
Delusional to boot

>>136521058
Looks better than 95% of oelvn art.

>>136521721
You're a weird guy

>>136521058
I saw this art and it looked charming to me. After looking at the entire first page of the NaNoRenO section, this is the only game that I still remember, and it's all because of the art.

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>>136485424
There you go, friend!
aside from the hair description you weren't too specific with her looks, so i took the liberty to make her look as simple as possible in the areas you didn't specify.
>>136475413
>>136476527
>>136476763
>>136476982
>>136487731
>>136489286
Don't worry, I take no offense. Art is subjective, and can be disliked, although i would prefer to know what made the art bad in your eyes so i could improve!
Just remember that deep inside you are all qts.

i can probably draw another one, so post ahead if you want me to draw your thing.

not ded.

>>136524585

Thanks! I've got to work on being more descriptive but I do like your interpretatio n.

I don't want to do anything.

>>136532993
But you have to, anon.

>>136532993
The lack of action takes an action turn in itself. Time waits for no man.

How do you put gui in renpy ?

>>136533958
Carefully.

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>>136533958
>I can't google "renpy GUI tutorial"

can we be less dead?

>>136536876
post progresso

>>136536876
too busy talking with the missus, you guys need to bump this without me

>>136423834
What it is ?

holy crap we survived the night

oh wait it's the weekend

>>136539850
I have a weird pain in my side that came on recently. I might not make it much longer. If I die, you will all have to live on for me, and carry on my dream of releasing a visual novel that will come to be loved by hundreds. Do it for me, anon.

>>136541368
I will, Anon, and quote this thread when I do

>>136541870
>>136541368
I think I'm dying as well, so please do it twice.

>>136541870
Thank you, anon. I might not be here to see it, but I'll always remember your kind words.

>>136539850

What's the agenda for today, Black Sands, Lips or Winter Wolves?

>>136543767
futas

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>>136544085
Someone! Please! Stop this anon!

>>136543767
Sekai Project announced a loli vn where some of the heroines look like they're 6 years old. So far they've only announced an all-ages release, but can you imagine what would happen if someone patched it?

https://vndb.org/v18131

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>>136544763
I still can't believe they've done it, the absolute madmen.

They also just announced another this, and...
>Our next announcement is online exclusive! Monstrous Lovers a horror BL game now on indiegogo!
Sorry MLanon, you weren't important enough to announce at the panel.

>>136544763
>localizing the train fucking game
>removing the train fucking
With any luck, someone will patch it.

>>136545083
So, Sekai Project is publishing Monstrous Lovers now? This has been a surprising con season already.

>>136545083
They don't even talk about the games they released recently (ATOM GRRRL!!, Sunrider Academy, Rising Angels) at the panels. Why would they? They just have waaaaaaaaaay too many titles and you can see where their caring is.

>>136545083
>another this
this*

I was going to type another EVN but I thought someone might mistake it as referring to ML and not the screenshot. Interestingly enough, they cancelled their Kickstarter plans because Sekai stepped in to fund them. But their goal was also pathetically low because they're Indonesians.

They also highlighted that there's no sex as a standout feature.

>>136545083
>Our next announcement is online exclusive! Monstrous Lovers a horror BL game now on indiegogo!
>become a whore of sekai
>they don't even bother shilling you
>you realize you sold yourself for a penny
realizing you became the cheapest whore is the worst.

Is this train game related to monobeno?

>>136545976
Made by the same company.

>>136545976
Same dev.

>>136546065
>>136546080
Oh jesus.

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>>136544763
You put your penis in this.

>>136546415
>>136546445
Oh JP, do you have anything to say about this?

>>136546445
Wew, staying far away from this shit. Drawings can get you jailed where I'm at

>>136546445
Is this the one with the 164cm to 112cm height fuckable girls ?

Might as well just grab an onahole.

>>136545083
>horror BL game
>horror
>SP in charge of knowing shit about projects they take on

>trying to describe the sex scene CG to my artist
>"possibly spreading her labia"

i cringe.

>>136548706
> horror-inspired is somehow the same as horror

huh.

>>136550595
People will be expecting really scary things to happen and this will probably The Munsters tier of scary.

>>136549661
Describing sex scenes is hard if you never had sex in your entire life.

>>136553031
b-but my Chinese cartoon sex is just as good, right?

>>136553561
Uguu, Onii-chan, even if we're not blood related, please release your love juices in my pussy! My hips are moving on my own! Look how the back of my knee is twitching! I can't help it! It can't be helped! Ahhh~n
Two years worth of semen made a glopping noise as it flowed endlessly into your imouto.

>>136545816
The whore in Crescendo had a rather emotional story, I really felt for her.

I still like ML Anon!

>>136553889
I still like ML Anon but I don't respect her in this morning.

Could have gotten the money from people who aren't shit.

>>136555319
>>136553889
I still respect her, but this sounds like a horrible move.

>>136555319
>>136555594
Well, people in this thread offered to fund the game, but I guess people think better the devil you know than the anon you don't?

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>>136553739

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>>136558262
>people in this thread offered to fund the game
You really think someone was actually willing or even able to fork over thousands of dollars to a random person on the internet to make their game?

>>136553739
Actually, I want to hire you, for my hentai vn.
Will you take % from profits ? or you want fixed price ?

>>136558803
Sorry you're poor, not everyone here is. I'd fund a game I believe in.

Wait does that mean ML kickstarter canceled?

>>136559328
No. They're paying now a big chunk of their future revenue for one tweet from Sekai.

>>136559896
I feel sorry for the composer. $575 for the whole music budget is depressing already.

So I started out wanting to make an erotic VN. Then I started liking and becoming attached to the characters I've been making. Now I'm thinking about making it just a normal VN. Someone help me get back in the sexy time mood.

>>136559253
Sure you would.

>>136559896
Thanks, I suppose that's not a good price to pay for a tweet exposure

>>136560236
Wanna try your luck and post your great plot to see if it interests someone straight up saying they'll fund a good VN or are you going to be a salty little bitch all day?

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. It's the moment of truth and if you back down now, you have no one but yourself to blame.

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Can anyone here offer some writing advice?

I'm writing a first person story (MC PoV) but I'm finding this to be really restrictive. In particular, I'm having trouble with writing parts where something happens that the MC doesn't notice, but I still want to point out to the reader since it's going to be significant or foreshadowing.
For example, it could even be something as simple as the MC sitting in class and the girl beside him is glaring at a girl behind him.

I've been wracking my brain all week trying to figure out a way to do this.

>>136560632
Oh, no, anon. I totally believe that you're sitting on tens of thousands of dollars you'd be happy to give to people on anonymous image boards with no track record who may make a game you might like instead of using that money to make a game you know you'll like, with total creative freedom on who you hire and what's in it. Please don't think I'm doubting you.

>>136558803
Yes. The issue would be getting the contract in place and how much they would want in exchange.

>>136561541
Not the same person you're replying to there but - the thing about ML anon was that it WASN'T just a 'great plot idea', it was a game that clearly someone had already put a good deal of work and money into, with a bunch of decent art already available. Basically, it was a project that looked like it was going to complete.

No way in hell I'm giving $10K to some random anon who handwave-promises they're going to make the game of my dreams.

> instead of using that money to make a game you know you'll like, with total creative freedom on who you hire and what's in it

Have you managed a project? It's a pain in the ass. If someone clearly knows what they're doing and just needs a bit of cash to complete it, WITHOUT me having to ride herd on all the artists involved? That's quite attractive.

(Especially if my investment returned a sizable chunk of the profits and the creative control level to help edit the writing so it doesn't suck.)

>>136561541
Ok, you're too much of a coward to take a chance on what would literally cost you nothing for a complete funding. Got it.

>>136562363
Maybe if you make enough snarky comments I'll believe you!

I'd have tried to go to Hanakogames as a published, before Sekaiproject. Unless SP offers a decent amount of money upfront and ML really needed the cash right now, I don't see why you'd go for them. All they seem to have done for EVNs they published lately seems to have amounted to tweeting or retweeting once.

>>136562712
Your chance is gone. You're weak and have no one to blame but yourself. This is the kind of person you are.

All you had to do was post your project's plot. If I was lying, nothing would happen to you that wasn't already happening. No one would bully you for taking a shot, most people wouldn't even remember it tomorrow. But more than not believing in me, you didn't believe your project could possibly interest someone with more money than things to spend it on. You just don't think it's good enough, that if someone had it laying around, they'd be interested in it.

So it's all on you. Work on how you feel about your project or quit, I don't care.

>>136563276
edgy

>>136560952
Not a writer but if this event is critical for the reader to view it seems like your options are to either restructure your scene so the MC is able to observe the situation or have the MC hear the information secondhand.

I don't know how to write. Someone help me.

>>136560952
There are guidelines for writing using specific narration. You can also try reading a book sometime. Anime and manga aren't good literary sources.
>>136563592
You just wrote this.

>>136563276
Let me let you in on a little secret: I'm not making a game.

There's lots of people out there like you. Make big talk on the internet, then get completely and utterly assblasted when someone doesn't believe you and attempt to talk down to them and make them seem stupid for not trusting you.

>>136564163
I didn't lose anything. You lost the chance to just say whatever you wanted and get in talks for funding for anything that wasn't shit.

>>136562939
I thought there was manga gamer too
Kinda want to see ML anon's word on it, not doing well in terms of advertising and marketing?

I'm making a VN. I can't write, and I'm new to the Internet, but I will gladly take your money my rich friends.

>>136563276
No one cares about a plot.

>>136564632
I do. Try me.

>>136564527
I will give you a penny if you travel over to my office and beg for it.

>>136564730
Okay. Fine.

A boy falls in love with a girl.

Unable to confess, he is gifted by a deus ex machina with the girl's phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well.

But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day's confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn't exist in this universe at all. She is the girl's alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the MC's own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush.

Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, drama ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the nature of love.

>>136564893
If I could have reached the guy who did it originally, I would have funded it already.

>>136564893
Sounds more like a manga/anime plot than a VN one, so far. Could be an entertaining story, although I'm not sure how that's "questioning the nature of love", as it seems obvious to me that you'd have a deeper bond with the person you're actually talking to.

>>136559998
Oh god, no. A lot of the music is done, that's what I need for what's left.


If someone actually offered the money I'll go cry into a corner because I never saw it ha ha.


SP paints a good on paper, but as you might guess the specifics are under a NDA. I suppose we will see how it all turns out - worst case scenario, the game will still come out but at the with the barest amount of things I'd consider commercial quality (so just the 4 routes, about 5 cgs per route and definitely no voices.)

>>136564893
Sounds like a run of the mill shounen jump romance comedy, gj anon, would read

>>136565542
Best of luck!

>>136564768
I'm just kidding. I know how to write. I just don't know how to write well.

Also, I can do alright at art, but it takes me longer than a normal human to do so.

I don't need your pennies. I'll live off ramen and rice until the day I meet success. If it never comes.

Sudoku.

>Thank you for your response. I will just cross your game off my to buy list, even though I enjoyed the demo.


... ouch. I guess not everyone wants their game to be Steam only.

>>136566504
you seek inspiration for your wasted life by matching rows of numbers?

>>136567141
is that the one guy on lemma who posts on every single commercial game about his dislike of steam?