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/evn/ - English Visual Novels

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This thread is for the discussion of original English visual novels, as well as western visual novel development.

Do you have a question about a Japanese visual novel or a translation of it? /vn/ is ready to answer it. We are not them.

>Recommended reading:
https://vndb.org/v/all?q=;fil=olang-en.tagspoil-0;o=d;s=rating
http://pastebin.com/zGVSpH0B

>Resources for getting started as a developer:
http://pastebin.com/7LsCvtq3

>Guides for developers on all subjects:
https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewforum.php?f=42

>Ren'Py (visual novel development software):
http://www.renpy.org/

>Previous thread:
>>156079635
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>>156750908
Kawaii
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>tfw it's the you start killing characters one by one part
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This is dungeonanon, back in action for maybe a couple more hours. Just now I have coded a simple Etrian Odyssey-style first person dungeon renderer with a minimap. You can add new rooms, the minimap and viewport automatically change to match the room, and changing direction changes the view and compass accordingly. Next up is arrowkey controls, after which I'll try room-to-room navigation, followed by adding non-generic-corridor rooms.

What's everyone else working on?
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>>156755878
are they rooms or vaginal openings
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>>156750908
>he changed the OP we had for years
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Keymaps in Ren'Py seem like one of the more arcane systems. Does anyone have a method for binding newly defined actions to keys?

>>156759149
Thanks, Freud. I'll fix the art later.

>>156759325
Sorry if I caused any offense. We needed a new thread, and I thought since I had the chance I would try and make the OP tidier.
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>>156759325
Let's make a new one, and let this one die?
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>>156759754
I think this is the first time I've actually seen one of us shill our own thing in the OP. Or at least do it in a way that wasn't sneaky. Props.
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>>156763119
>progress image is shilling

mate
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>>156763221
It's not?
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>>156763119
You forgot HW's invasion
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>>156763426
u jelly of his progress?
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>>156763668
hi jelly anon!
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>>156760720
Everything dies in the end, have patience.
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>>156766579
I just don't want next thread to have this shitty OP
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>>156766696
what did he even change about it? who even reads it?

also i'm glad that shitty tumblr is gone from the links. or did someone do that before?
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>>156755878
Looks nice, anon. I love EO, keep up the good work.
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>>156766696
why would it? NORMALLY we pick different random screenshots every time, it's only the text that stays the same from OP to OP.
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>>156766834
i think the wording was rephrased a little, in a way that the poster thought was more clear but some people think is less. but who cares? small wording changes happen occasionally when whoever's posting the OP decides to
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>>156769931
>Discord missing
good
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>>156769931
discord wasn't usually in the OP anyway though
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>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2921787/exogenesis-post-apocalyptic-tokyo-adventure-visual/posts/1681967

well i'm depressed now
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>>156771915
Death comes for us all.
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>>156772280
yeah. the stuff he's going through hit way too close to home for me though
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>>156771915
>Among her last words, in her final brief moment of clarity a week before she became totally incomprehensible, she said she was sorry I couldn’t finish the game. That meant many things to me which I won't discuss now, but I’d never forget that morning in the hospital when my uncle woke me up and I groggily listened to my dying mother apologize over a video game.

>It’s just a damn video game.

desu she has more perspective than he did
sorry he's hurting but that doesn't excuse his lack of commitment to something he should have done years ago and got a lot of money for
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Can someone post screenshot from /evn/ discord chat? I'd like too see how "not dead" it is
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>>156775350
Just open it and see for yourself you double nerd
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>>156775880
B-but I don't want to join gay club.
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>>156779879
reminds me of that stupid logo all over twitter
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:0
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>>156784509
0-0
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>>156787826
on evn, we are all tied for last
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>>156790923
kek
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why no link from old thread to new one?
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>>156791931
hi, you must be new to /evn/.

even when a thread has hit bump limit and is obviously dying, it's rare for people to bother making a new thread before it dies completely in order to link to it.

the last one didn't even hit limit, it just died because no one was posting. so of course there was no new thread yet.
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ded
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clearly the ugly OP image has doomed this thread
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>>156800693
at least the op made more progress than you
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>>156801224
REKT
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>>156801224
sure but i made more money than OP
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>>156801556
Working as dishwasher?
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Bumping out of pity
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>>156801686
rolling in my VN millions babe
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>>156802607
You forgot your trip, cuddlebeam
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>>156803373
i don't know why people keep thinking i'm him. i'm far superior.
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>>156803494
Post something "far superior" than HP
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How do I con people into proofreading what I've written for internal consistency, spelling/grammatical errors, and quality?
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>>156806947
I'll proofread 1000 words or so.
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How do you even find long-term editor? Any trusted services?
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>>156810681
exploit your friends
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>>156810681
No idea, mine just wrote to me one day and offered his service
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pepe
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>>156819772
dumb imageless frog poster
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someone post progress
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>>156822814
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>>156823281
stop posting hate symbols, this is a christian imageboard
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dont
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>>156753649

Maximum overdespair
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How's today going for you senpaitachi?
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So with regard to killing off (major) characters, how do you?

It seems like either you have to put in a ton of work writing outcomes where they dead and they alive, or else their survival and/or death is ultimately insignificant after they've played their part in the story (I'm thinking in particular of Dougcarly in Walking Dead or Kate in Life is Strange, who could all live or die but after that point never got more than bit parts)
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>>156833648
Sometimes with a hatchet, sometimes with a gun. Really depends what is at hand.
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>>156833827

In graphic detail I hope
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>>156834091
Not really. It throws off the vibe of the story as a whole if it starts getting gory. At the end, the main character throws the big monster off the cliff in a dramatic battle and if you don't keep one of two people alive, they just fall straight to their death. Showing them splattered across the rocks ruins the noble self-sacrifice mood from earlier in the scene.
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>>156835103
Yeah it is kind of distracting when a story pulls that sort of thing

A dark tone is one thing, but unnecessarily detailed depictions of violence out of nowhere can throw a reader off
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>>156836424
it's not that big of a deal

it can add a lot in meaning and atmosphere unless it's just thrown in for no reason
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>>156833648
A lot of the characters in the project I'm working on can either live or die. Like you mentioned, I'm simply putting in as much effort as I can into both outcomes so that it will be a worthwhile read no matter what happens. I don't think there's an easy way to get around it.
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Should I stream this character scene?
Its H-scene of course
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>>156843265
Yes, post strem lenk
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>dead thread
>dead people
>dead progress
>dead everything
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>>156845623
https://picarto.tv/Aimlessart
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>>156845645
Oh, its you!
WHEN?!?!/11
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>>156845808
Soon!
Somewhere in 2017
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dead
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fucking discord circlejerking faggots.
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>>156851451
Relax, nobody is even online but me right now.
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Are we dead yet?
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bump i gues
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>>156851451
no one stops you from shitposting yourself to keep the thread alive
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>>156864072
>emoji meme faces
the worst shit
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>>156864532
It's fine in small doses.
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>>156864072
I feel like too much is going on here with xbox hueg character sprites along with the head shot in the text box
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>>156865347
Agree - I usually defend heads in text boxes but in this case the sprites are close-in enough that it's not necessary
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Hey! Wake up!
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>>156869009
[x] insert dick
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should i make an english vn?
they just dont ever seem to have enough "gameplay" so i worry they seem boring
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>>156870310
>should i make an english vn?
no

>so i worry they seem boring
they are
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>>156870310
>should i make an english vn?
If you are not insanely motivated about it, don't even start
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>>156870310
>they just dont ever seem to have enough "gameplay"
hey here's a thought maybe when you're considering making a video game you should do the slightest bit of fucking research into the genre

we have english VNs with gameplay all over the place, some of which get kicked out of VNDB for having too much gameplay

although, again, wtf: if you want to put gameplay in it WHY WOULD YOU NOT JUST DO THAT. why are you saying 'Oh, but EVNs don't have gameplay'. are you afraid the evn ninja squad is going to come to your house and behead your dog because you added a puzzle?
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So what sells more these days, dating boys or dating girls? Would you be interested in a game with both a male and female protagonist who have different stories, all of which are needed to get the full scope of the plot?
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>>156874834
Hard to give a solid overall on that. Dating girls with honking shiny tits seems like a good safe bet if you want to pander, but it's not like other games don't sell.

>Would you be interested in a game with both a male and female protagonist who have different stories, all of which are needed to get the full scope of the plot?

Hardcore VN fans will appreciate it, but a lot of the mainstream audience is lazy buggers who complain about being asked to play more than once. Doesn't mean you can't do it, just expect to run into a lot of players who played a single route and complain that it wasn't fulfilling.
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>>156874834
that's dumb
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>>156875489
The plan is to make every route feel like a full story, but to only have the grander plot come together if you at least play as both protagonists once. Basically, I'm trying to make the "choose your gender" part have more relevance than just having a dick or a vagina by giving them distinct personalities, backgrounds and skills.
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>>156876189
Sure, go for it, some people will appreciate it
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>>156879618
Stiva kind of looks like a faggot
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>>156887827
Haven't seen the show, but isn't the point of it supposed to be yaoi? Isn't GxB blasphemy?
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>>156888419
What is fanwork for if not blasphemy?
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>>156887827
>that face on the right
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>>156887827
Too gay for me.
Why can't we have cute trap vn?
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>>156889468
ded in 30 mins
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>>156889468
>tfw no VNs where you romance cute boys
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>>156895738

There are so many though
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>>156895738
i want to make a trap fetish vn but i don't want to deal with the trans community
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>>156903338
trans community is shit and to be ignored permanently

just indulge in cute boys and if anyone tries to make it a gender identity thing tell them to fuck off
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>>156879618
what game?
interesting style
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>>156903338
just ignore them then, there aren't that many of them actually.

it's not like they shut down aj tilley's crossdressing VN

the problem is when you have a game that simultaneously appeals to progressives and pisses some of them off
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Post art I can steal.
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>>156907172
Can you just steal my entire project?
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>>156910589
That depends how good it is

Convince me that it's worth stealing
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Safety first
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>>156911134
It's not, but take it anyway.
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「」
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Okay so hypothetically

if I'm referring to someone's body but it doesn't actually belong to them, they're just watching through that body's eyes

would it be a better idea to call it "my body" or "_'s body", where _ is the name of the person in charge of it normally
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>>156930925
I would say "my," but actually put it in quotes in the text.

"I move 'my' body etc."
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>>156931040
But they're not the one doing the moving, they're just watching as it all happens in first person

So _ would be doing the moving of the body

I feel like it would be an okay thing to interchangeably refer to it as both _'s body and my body
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>>156930925
Is this possession or some kind of farsight type thing?

For the former it depends on the story, I think. "My" sounds like the narrator is becoming them, "name's body" sounds like the narrator is using them.

For the latter I'd go with name's body or just he or she.
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>>156931605
Here I will lay it out in sequence

Person X is in a body, Z, controlling it.

Person Y comes in and takes control of that body, relegating X to a watching status.

Now, from the perspective of X, would it be "Z's body" or "My body" that is being controlled by Y?

It seems interchangeable but I'm not sure if one sounds better to people
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ANSWER ME OR I EXPLODE
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>>156936743

What is your question
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>>156936862
RIGHT ABOVE YOU
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>>156939689

That's Z's Body, clearly
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>>156939689
You should say, "the body that I am currently inside of and have no control over". Every time.
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>>156942128
That's what I'm trying to avoid

Rather than typing out _______'s body, which is super awkward, it might be better to avoid specific mentions of it or just use "my body" in some cases because it'd just get tiresome for the reader, but if it wouldn't be that much of a pain I could overlook it
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>>156942206
"My body" would most likely be tuned out, just as "said x" usually is.
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>>156930925
I would go with both and have the narrator just as confused as you are. 'cus that's some confusing shit.
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AWAKEN!
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>>156944893
that's not confusing at all

X controls Z, then Y takes control of Z while X watches from the perspective of Y while not doing anything

it's like the simplest thing in the world
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>>156944903

WAMUU!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUhVCoTsBaM
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>>156945016
I feel like that explanation needs chibi characters and a chalkboard
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>>156944903
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>>156949890
You gay or something?
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>>156950106
Gay for your feminine dick
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>>156950425
Awww. We can cuddle if you want.
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>1 more day
CAN'T WAIT
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>>156953292
I am so glad for the BL audience
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>>156953292
wich one is which?
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>>156953292
How they did it?
There's no more dark outline around redhair, but only that one spot.
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>>156953713
>no more dark outline
if you don't have eyes, i guess
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>>156953713
u wot? There's a cast shadow around both sprites' left sides.
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>/evn/ is either shitting on devs or dead
>no game discussion takes place
>no feedback

Why does this even exist, what's the point of this thread.
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>>156954294
posts like yours, complaining about a thread you're not a part of or enjoy
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>>156954294
no one forces you to come here
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No on-topic posts means thread should be reported because people are using a /vg/ general thread for /soc/ bullshit.

Which means the thread should just go away altogether because it serves no purpose but to shitpost in.
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>>156955445
>sob sob
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>>156955445
>look mom, I posted this again
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now I'm going to bump this dump out of spite, thanks for motivation nerd
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What's happening?
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Should I use prose?
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>>156961041
Nobody knows.
The thread was doomed from the start t b h, I'm going to stop resisting.
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>>156963019
As long as writing is interesting, coherent, and clean, I could care less how it reads.
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Sheepstorm here, with what I promised earlier a few threads back.
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>>156966228
top is cute
bottom is ugly/cheap
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>>156966228
It's alright, pretty cute.
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>>156966228
It looks familiar. What game is this?
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>>156976793
nazi loli
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>>156976793
no need for Africa, let's purge the darkies - the game
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>>156966228
they're unique enough but those colors still feel a bit odd

it might be a personal thing regarding the saturation
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>>156903338
I have literally never heard a trans person have a problem with crossdressers. As long as you don't call THEM crossdressers, I see no reason why they'd care.

Stop using m-muh SJW boogiemans to try to hide the fact you're just too lazy or untalented to make the game.
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>>156985170
>652x489
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>>156985467
I assume it was resized for forum posting

>>156985387
Some of them take serious issue with the term trap, even if they are aware of the cultural context of anime trash.
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>>156985387
>Stop using m-muh SJW boogiemans to try to hide the fact you're just too lazy or untalented to make the game
Not him her?, but you're not going to get anywhere by trying to call people out on being incapable of doing things

You're projecting your own insecurities really damn hard
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>>156985387
You misunderstand, I don't want the trans community thinking I made a game for them
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>>156985387
You do realize crossdressers and drag queens were kinda banned from Pride Glasgow recently because their mere presence and existence was offending trans folks, right? It took a lot of internet backlash to get them back.

You're severely overestimating SJW's tolerance or even capability of understanding someone's intentions.
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>>156988525
that's fucked up, drag queens have done more for the lgbt community than most people realize.
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>>156988291
Then put into description something like: "This is a game for white straight male human beings"
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>>156989008
>straight male
>trap
idk
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>>156990426
>idk
You gay?
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Geh, maybe I should join aggydaggy's Halloween jam to make people unwitting testers for my shitty rpg battle framework.
>>156966228
When are you going to finish yours senpai? N-no rush.
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>>156887827
>that blatant FREE ripoff

hahaha god dammn.
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>>156994927
wasn't it just some fan game?
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>>156989008
I want someone to make a game where girls date traps.
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>>156999785
Eww.
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>>156999785
See
>>156953292
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>>157003308
traps, not pitfalls
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>>156953292
I guess i'm a slowpoke but there's no steam release for this game?
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>>157004236
no, it's too sex-centric afaik
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>>156963019
no, do entire vn in poetry
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>>156988525
I always find it so ironic whenever I hear a gay or trans person being a bigot. It's amazing how intolerant they can be. You'd think they'd be able to sympathize, considering their own situation.
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>>157006070
hardly new, plenty of black homophobes, female racists, and jews who hate gypsies
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>>157006070
human shittiness doesn't go away if you're a minority. this case is pretty stupid, though.

random fun fact: the average life expectancy of a black mtf is 35 years
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>>157012364
but why
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donald bump
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What resolution should a desktop wallpaper reward be?
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>>157030197
800x600
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>>157030197
400x300
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>>157030197
0x0, it will represent this thread's progress.
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>>157034496
Excuse me I have made a lot of editing progress but the character limit here is 2000
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>>157036296
Excuse me, but I don't believe you.
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>>157037871
YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING
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>>157037871
>Excuse me, but I don't believe you.

i don't either
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>>157038128
You don't know Jack.
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>>156982818
The bottom ones are the old versions.

>>156993226
Totally forgot which things to include.
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dead horse
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Deadest thread.
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Can't wait to pirate this one
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>>157049571
cue autismal fit of rage by our resident antipiratefag newfriend (unless he/she died of a heart attack already, which I'm honestly hoping is the case).
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>>157049795
fuck off poorfag
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>>157049795
Nice bait mate
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Welp, uploaded Sheepstorm 0.8. Haven't gone around implementing elemental damage mechanic yet. I don't have a good design.
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>>157052416
>Sheepstorm
Why?
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b
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>>157049571
I actually can't tell if it's a guy or a grill
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>>157049795
I'm one of the people who vaguely chides people for pirating shit but in thie case who cares it's not even out yet why would I bother responding?
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>>157056620
You haven't even looked at the title of the game have you.
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>http://erogedownload.com/downloads/highway-blossoms/#more-8459
>pirate this game but also here's a link to buy it

what?
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>>157056620
everyone in that VN looks like a man or a pre-op tranny, perhaps it takes place on another planet where people are jacked on testosterone or something
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>>157060809
Believe it or not, some people both pirate and buy games. Some people use pirate sites to tell them about new games. Some people like to 'try before you buy'. Some people pay for games and then download the pirate version anyway in order to get around DRM or ensure they have all the optional content pre-patched.

Other people just want to pretend that they do.

So, really, it comes down to "why not"?
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>>157065704
>both pirate and buy games
>Some people use pirate sites to tell them about new games
>Some people pay for games and then download the pirate version anyway

it's reassuring to know i'll never be as pathetic as these people
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>>157066189
as pathetic as people who want to play games without hassle and also want to support the industry?
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>>157067936
the only thing more pathetic than video game pirates is pirates pretending to have a sympathetic plight
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>>157068535
In a dev thread full of people who do get fucked from piracy? No, not really.
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>>157068535
when the plight is 'your DRM is shit' i am sympathetic

it's a small fraction of pirates though, most of them are just cheap
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>>157068769
what?
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>>157069003
I'm a professional video game developer, and I support piracy!
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>>157069685
So do I! Go pirate from my competitors so they go out of business quicker and leave only me standing!
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>evn devs
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Me inside the train
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>>157072485
Where is it going?
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>>157072557
To the front. It's bringing people to their death.

Some of them will find peace, rest, or themselves. Or nothing at all. Just pain.
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>>157044371
Fuck
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>>157060809
>>http://erogedownload.com/downloads/highway-blossoms/#more-8459
> click around site
> people bitching about content of things they haven't bought.

why. Pirates are literally on the last place when it comes to people that get to bitch about things.
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>>157077157
>people bitching about content of things they haven't bought

That's what most people do and it's entirely valid
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>>157077431
Unless it's something whose merese existence is offensive, no. Doubly so when you're outright stealing from the developers, then complainign about why they don't release more stuff you like or why X wasn't done differently.
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>>157077567
There is literally nothing wrong with complaining about the content of a game when you can see all of that content through a variety of sources

I don't have to buy Civilization V to know details on what it has in it

If I pirate it and then demand that the devs pander to me, a customer, then yeah clearly there's an issue
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>>157077824
>If I pirate it and then demand that the devs pander to me, a customer, then yeah clearly there's an issue

... That's exactly what I mean.
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>>157077993
If it was, you didn't convey that well at all

>then complainign about why they don't release more stuff you like or why X wasn't done differently

It's definitely valid to want X thing to be done differently even if you're a pirate

If people who never buy a game are allowed to say they wanted particular things done differently, pirates are too
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>>157077157
as you can imagine people who get premium content for free are entitled as fuck.
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>auto function disabled

why is this allowed?
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>>157078934
B-but you HAVE to read it very carefully to understand just how DEEP and thought-provoking it is! Or something.
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>>157078934
I didn't want too many buttons. Is it okay to delete if skip is there?
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>>157081358
What?

Just bind it to a key, like spacebar
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>>157081358
Auto and Skip serve different functions. Skip is for getting through shit fast on replay, Auto is so I don't wear my hand out clicking constantly (especially if you are a certain dev who thinks its funny to put a {w} after every single period)
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>>157081871
it's bound to ctrl by renpy default
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>>157082567
If there's no clickable button you need to make sure there's information available to the players who don't know all the keybinds (surprising how many people buy evns and don't know that they can get to the menu/save by right-click)
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>>157084531
I won't be surprised if it turns out some """"devs"""" don't know about the keybind
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did you guys know if you press 'v' you enable self-voicing on your project? Free voice acting!
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>>157085993
isn't ctrl bound to skip, not auto?
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>>157087865
yeah really immersive to hear
[CHARACTER NAME]
every single line
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>>156944903
Huh, what's this from?
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>>157088590
oh. I misread and thought we were talking about skip initially
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bum
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>>157093118
gardener
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ladykiller is out, how is it apart from the art and the writing?

i guess what i'm asking is, does it have interesting mechanically? i know the subject matter and art both don't interest me but i wonder if i should play it to learn from the 'game' parts of it
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bumperino bumperino have some boring progressino
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Bet you 10 bucks that Uncle Shiro on the Discord is Omniknight
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>>157100693
FUCK I NEED A HOSPITAL BED BG

I need so many BGs. Like probably 40.
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>>157100778
What is he doing? Why would he sneak into a cicrclejerk chatroom for a dying thread?
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>>157096895
it's not really something you could imitate.
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>>157101159
ayyy cut some scenes then or make them happen in the same locations
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>>157101470
I've been pretty conservative and cutting any more areas would be a poor idea
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>>157088923
This >>156843265
>>156845645
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>>157101872
what kind of world spanning epic are you making my man? I'm chipping away at a project that's pretty much all just BGs and closeups of scenes and even then I don't need more than 20.
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>>157102271
I have a large amount of BGs ready but I'm going to need quite a few to finish things off

Luckily they're mostly generic so I can likely track some free ones down somewhere
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Here's the prologue to my VN if anyone feels like reading it.

I'll release a newer version that enables auto mode and improves some of the sound volume sometime soon.

https://mega.nz/#!E8lEBLIK!drD65c-bwnNfzzqtdY3ZbFnHZBiGcuvtNrs1fmlwXSg
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bum
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>>157100693
Mind sharing your methods?
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ladykiller is interesting.
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>>157111032
post screenshots
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>>157111032
Post dicks
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>>157103247
this is like the anti-tiddie
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ladykiller is fucking horrible.

art is blah
writing is shit
h-scenes go on fucking forever
funnay references and maymays
nothing people do makes sense
rape scene is fuckin weird
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>>157119558
subtle, clove

(used ingame for a phone call)
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>>157119558
this is one of the best pieces of h-art, it's all kinda bad. nothing's in full pictures, only cutins
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>>157119558
Leak it here, so I can judge myself.
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>>157119558
>rape scene is fuckin weird
Do give details, can't believe her SJW ass even wrote a rape scene?
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>>157119862
God damn if that is the best please post the worst
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>>157119862
Looks like it's empty place between her legs.
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>>157120548
it goes forever
the dude forces a blowjob thinking it's her brother
she, a lesbian, turns bi from this and starts enjoying it
he pulls her pants down and oops.gif (he's queer like literally every character)
he doesn't give a shit that you're not the person he thought you were, or a girl, and rapes you anyway
he says it's okay because he didn't come inside
she's fine with it now too and the "honest"-tagged option is to beg for more
afterwards he says it was her fault he raped her due to the argument they had beforehand
the rape scene's never brought up again by anyway and immediately followed by comedy

it took a giant shit on the themes of consent and safewords and shit, and was completely needless, plus sued a lot of classic abuser arguments (you made me do it, you enjoyed it because you came, etc)

it's the weirdest fucking thing from someone like clove and i'm surprised she isn't being called on it at all
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>>157121027
UPLOAD IT TO MEGA
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>>157120638
note pixellation, also pubes are sometimes drawn sometimes not
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>>157121274
hurr i meant aliasing

more in this one, feels like shading was half-finished
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>>157121382
cute.
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JUST FUCK MY SHIT UP SENPAI
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>>157121652
>Which is a better videogame?
Mine!
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>>157121027
please post screenshot of the choice flag with the honest option for proof
this is so disgusting, I don't want to believe its real
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>>157121027
The butthurt from /u/tards will be glorious.
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>>157122657
already warned them
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>>157122595
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>>157122595
another part
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>>157122686
Sorry to have doubted you, anon...
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>>157122826
this whole scene is staggering
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>>157122809
I'm sorry you had to suffer through this for a $30 pricetag, I won't let your sacrifice be in vain.
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just... fuck

fuck me

fuck
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>>157122686
>>157122920
A straight scene has never felt so gay.
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>>157123298
I feel really bad for you but at the same time your suffering keeps the thread alive
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this is what's said *after* the rape.

"you liked it"
"it was your fault anyway"
"you made me do it"
"i'm a great guy"

all the classic rapist and abuser excuses
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>>157123628
fucking hell
CL has serious mental issues
y'know, aside from being a tranny
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>>157123628
>maybe your brother will learn from this that not all men are jerks
I don't even.
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>>157123298
>nigger in a space suit
LITERALLY SPACE SUIT
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how do you do, fellow nerds
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>>157124001
Some nerd, low health limit breaks were only really prevalent in 7 and 8.
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>tfw your writing isn't nearly as shit or hamfisted as all of this and you've got far less experience
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So, any SJW praise for this rape game yet?
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>>157124806
all the beta testers were singing its praises for how gay it was
guess they didn't get very far in game
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>>157125050
Pretty sure the beta testers were all friends of hers. Not that that's a bad thing, but it can make it hard to give unbiased feedback.
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>>157122809
What happened to his face? He looks like one of those maymay pictures where people scale facial features down so they look tiny.
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>>157124239
>danbooru
>not gelbooru
Weak
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>>157120548
You people have the strangest ideas of what it means to be into social justice.
Plenty of us are still fucking perverts who get off to loli rape and are aware of the difference between fantasy and reality.
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>>157123707
If writing that means she has serious mental issues, what does that say about almost everyone else in the h-game world?

There is nothing inherently wrong with intentionally writing an abusive character.

(Note: I haven't played the game yet and don't intend to. But I have deliberately written abusive scenarios in fiction, and played games with rape fetish scenes. Haven't you?)
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>>157127003
She has been marketing her game as a super gayfest for its entirety of development. To then chuck an unavoidable het rape scene just before a good end is a fucking disgrace.
Baiting your readers is the worst thing you can do as a writer. Those rape fetish games don't go and advertise themselves as pure love stories, do they?
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>>157127003
I wouldn't have said mental issues myself, but most rape stuff in hentai tends to not go much into the psychology of the rapist beyond some canned dialogue. What gets me is that this scene is the last H in a game that made a point of consent and safewords... and then took a steaming shit all over it.

The apologia after the scene is weird, the needlessness of it is weird, and it's a surprise to see Clove, who generally seems to try to put a message in her games, do this. Plus the while "raping a lesbian into liking cock" is weird for her, and doesn't fit at all with the tone of the game.
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>>157127358
>"raping a lesbian into liking cock"
>doesn't fit at all with the tone of the game
Isn't that why she's in a bind?
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>>157127239
>She has been marketing her game as a super gayfest for its entirety of development.
The webpage is misleading, yes, since it strongly implies you cannot have sex with men even if you want to. Unavoidable het rape means this game needs to go off the /u/ list in the next update and be carefully warned so that only people who are okay with bi content get involved.

If you follow her twitter, though, this is not that surprising. She's openly and routinely complained about /u/'s hangups and about the kind of SJWs who get pissy about ideological impurity, she's clearly into a bunch of weird porn. There was the whole 'gold star lesbian' explosion over the demo. The game is generally described as a smutfest, not a yurifest.

> Those rape fetish games don't go and advertise themselves as pure love stories, do they?

actually I have been more than once surprised by h-games that promote themselves as normal romance and then end up having sex scenes that are pretty rapey, but everything is forgiven because LOVE. Kind of off-topic though.
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>>157127358
>What gets me is that this scene is the last H in a game that made a point of consent and safewords... and then took a steaming shit all over it
Getting a laugh out of that would be enough to get me interested in checking it out, if the art was decent.
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>>157127358
>What gets me is that this scene is the last H in a game that made a point of consent and safewords... and then took a steaming shit all over it.
The dialog seems to imply it might be a consequence of how manipulative you were during the playthrough? I'm hoping eventually a guide will come out to make it clear how things work.
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>>157127582
>this game needs to go off the /u/ list in the next update and be carefully warned so that only people who are okay with bi content get involved
The game looks like ass, but are their feelings seriously that delicate?
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>>157127757
You don't really need delicate feelings to get pissed off by a scene of a lesbian turning bi from rape, and then being blamed for the rape.
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>>157127757
If it's unavoidable onscreen het rape then yes, that's a pretty big problem for /u/.
Optional het is allowed, though some people will still bitch about it.
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>>157127757
One thing is when there's het not related to non-lesbian characters, another thing is when the lesbians get dicked. It's an entirely different thing and yes, many yurifags are not okay with it.
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>>157128291
I meant
>het not related to lesbian characters
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>>157122657
The general consensus was pretty much already that no one was going to buy it since they all look like dudes.
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>>157127918
To the point where it would need to be pulled from a list of yuri games despite the vast majority of it being yuri, and then carefully warn people about the one instance of bi content? They'd be that upset by it?

>>157128291
>>157128075
I can't really relate. I could understand if it were simply because of the rape, especially if it were violent rape. Or maybe something like guro, or unavoidable NTR out of nowhere, etc. But it's an issue because it's straight sex? That just seems really weird to be offended by.
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>>157128404
wow
you've never been to /u/, have you?
these are the same people who get angered by lesbian characters having backstories where they were raped/sexually abused by men because it means they aren't pure
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>>157128541
I've heard stories from this general, but I'm not really into yuri, so I've never felt the need to go there. Their reaction to these things simply isn't something I can easily comprehend.
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>>157128404
Well I don't know about /u/ and yurifags but the "lesbians actually like to be dicked" cliche is a complete and immediate turn off for me, to the point where I kinda find it offensive, especially if it has rapey undertones.
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>>157128404
lesbian getting wet about being raped by a dude? Yeah, I’d be pissed, and I’m generally fairly easy going about these things. Loved The Menagerie.
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>>157128770
How is it hard to comprehend that people who like stories about lesbians wouldn't like a story that has a lesbian enjoying being raped by a guy?
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>>157128817
Turning a lesbian straight with the power of your dick is kinda hot
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>>157128964
For a guy, yes.
That's the problem. It's a fantasy clearly not aimed at lesbians.
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>>157128964
When I signed up for it sure, not when just paid for $30 of impure girls love.
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>>157129071
CL may have chopped the dick off but its power still remains
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>>157128964
Not if you're a yurifag, and this game was targeted at yurifags to begin with.
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>Features
>Six nights worth of explicit, consensual, kinky lesbian sex.
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>>157129361
false advertising, ho!
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>>157129127
PHANTOM ERECTION!
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>>157129559
i can help with that.
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>>157129619
put bulge in pants
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>>157129775
I feel someone should eventually address the apparent hygiene problem of Cloves characters
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Props to CL for actually including something interesting in the game, all this other "consent" bullshit sounds fucking boring
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>>157122686
>>157122809
>>157121027
this is what i get buying things before some other sucker on /u/ plays it
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>>157132394
Ask for a refund.
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>>157132008
the consent scenes are pretty creepy. it's the one game i wish they'd included a cute demon crashes STOP button in the top part. they mentioned a safe word but it never happens.

This is mostly from the bdsm chick who really isn't optional.

anyways yeah i wonder what possessed them to include het rape. there's way worse shit than rape she could have thought up
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Cute demon crashers is better
and free
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>>157133552
CDC isn't that good, so... that's actually pretty accurate
>>
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>>157136536
I like your choice of screenshot.
Now, after painful ladykiller flop I honestly believe that Sakura games are probably best commercial evns out there.
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>>157136846
That's because you have shit taste, anon. But at least you know how to fap.
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>>157136846
they're exactly what the appear to be, no more, no less. gets repetative after a while
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>>157137148
>they're exactly what the appear to be, no more, no less
which for fapbait is exactly what you want
they're not the best EVNs but they are the best EVN porn
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>>157138008
>best EVN porn
not for long
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>>157136846
I have a hard time believing that. I've only played through (most of) Sakura Dungeon since I'm a huge yurifag, and the writing and characterization are cute enough but extremely shallow and unintresting even for the main characters. And my impression is their games seem to never have remotely interesting plot or story at all. Nothing I've seen about the stories or writing from summaries or screenshots of the other games indicates they're much better. Sure most of their games have solid art and seem inoffensive, but that's a pretty low bar to set.
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>>157138902
>pretty low bar
Yet no one surpassed it.
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>>157139087
Blatantly untrue. Hell, even most of Winter Wolves' crappy games are better-written than the Sakura ones. They just don't have the delicious shiny tits to cream over.
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>>157139369
>WW
>better-written
Just stop. You are lying to yourself.
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>>157139451
Read Loren, read a Sakura game. No contest.
Hell, read Always Remember Me, which is trite and silly and full of a heroine going OH NOES all the time. It's full of cliches, it's badly designed and grindy, it's boring, it still has more plot and character development than a Sakura game.
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>>157139728
Why are you comparing an ecchige to a galge? I can't believe I'm defending WC, but nowhere did they advertise a gripping storyline and deep characters, they just make games about shiny tiddies and not pretending to be shakespeare or claiming to Revolutionize The Genre or whatever.
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>>157139728
>Read
Oh boy, have you "read" Planet Stronghold: Colonial Defense, made by WW?
Shit is so ugly - I wouldn't bother to pirate it.
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>>157139879
>Why are you comparing an ecchige to a galge?
Because someone literally said it was the best EVN and ignored requests to qualify that to the best ecchi EVN.

>>157140152
Nah, the art's ugly and I'm not interested in the gameplay so I haven't even looked at it and tehrefore can't comment on the writing.
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>>157139879
Not them, but no such distinction was made when the anon above claimed sakura titles were the best commercial evns, so it's being based on all of its merits, and not just whether the tiddie highlights blind us from how bad everything else is.
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>bought ladykiller for $30
>it's now 26.99
>rape scene warning

CANT WAKE UP
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>all this talk about Ladykiller
>no mega link yet

Please spare us the $30
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>Curtain: Story-wise, it’s kinda indefensible, revolving around a completely gratuitous rape played for shock value.
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>>157143489
w e w
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>>157143489
do we have to crosspost everything between here and /u/?
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>>157144728
considering everyone in this general are salty dykes
>>
>only friends beta test
>currently no way to rate the game or write a negative review.

when hugbox becomes stronghold
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>>157144836
Hey! I'm just salty.
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>>157144728
yes
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>>157144903
>currently no way to rate the game or write a negative review.

https://vndb.org/v14359
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>>157142016
>buying into a tumblr the game
You have no one else to blame but yourself.
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>>157144903
You could @ her if you have the balls
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>>157127757
There's a few dedicated concern trolls who like to jump on anything and use it complain that X is suddenly not yuri, ruined forever, never was yuri in the first place, aren't you glad I warned you so you don't have to play/read/watch it.

But there's a few actual retards too, yeah.
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>>157145174
yeah. i'll rate it low on vndb. that's such a reliable and respected ratings system.
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>>157138902
I actually think Yumi is pretty well written.
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>>157146443
>reliable and respected ratings system
And what is in the internet?
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>>157146768
don't be obtuse.
>>
which is better, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni or Umineko no Naku Koro ni? I'm really in the mood to play one of those and they seem very similar so I'd like to finish the better one last
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>>157147831
ask /vn/
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>>157147831
Ladykiller in a bind is better.
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>>157147930
ah, my bad
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leak where?
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>>157151939
in my pants
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>>157151998
eww...
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>>157147831
Umineko had a crappy ending, so overall Higurashi is better.
>>
piracy bump!
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>>157147831
This isn't the right place, but Umineko.
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>>157161481
>no piracy links
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>>157162338
piracy is dead, everyone is a buyfag normie now, even you and me
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>>157161481
Well, she says it's sold a ton of copies, so pirating Ladykiller is probably okay now.
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>>157162449
REEEEEEE
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>>157162476
post mega link then
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>>157162760
you think I paid for it?
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>>157164964
Someone apparently did
>>
Anyone playing the silver case? The fuck happened in the third chapter (parade).
wtf was the whole thing with sumio and the old detective at the end? Was Sumio the culprit? what the hell was the helicopter scene? Will it be explained better in Placebo?
>>
does anyone know what analogue sold in its first month? i know that one wasn't popular until some youtuber covered it?
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>>157166858
>being this obsessed with someone else's possible success
>>
>https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=40743
Get on board niggers
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>>157167029
>obsessed
>asking a question
wew
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>>157167916
Seiyuu Danshi killer incoming.
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>>157167916
> first game project
> generic as fuck setting and plot
> patreon

why
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>>157168013
>obsessed
>reading her twitter for vague clues about how much the game is selling
>being bothered that you don't know exactly what those vague clues mean
>asking other people to help you work it out
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>>157168240
>ctrl+f patreon
>6 times

dam
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>>157168323
i don't see the problem, honestly. there's an entire website just for spying on people's supposed sales on steam
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>>157167916
I wonder if gay dudes think about how women view and represent gay dudes
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>>157121274
nice tracing

OK, who's going to upload this for the team now that clove's made her pile?
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>>157170274
I've got shit for it once or twice, but honestly, if gay dudes don't understand that BL really isn't for them then that's their problem. I don't go around complaining about tit games, for example.
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>>157170274
I've seen it discussed in gay publications before, yeah
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>>157170274
>gay dudes
>caring what women think
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>>157170274
my gay friend in college laughed his ass off when he looked at some of the slashfic i'd been reading, but he wasn't offended

i've heard a few of them bitch about being objectified by straight girls but most of them have better things to worry about in my experience
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>>157170621
>>157170274
So, BL games are for straight women.
Trap games are for straight men.
Which games for fags then?
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>>157171095
Yuri games.
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>>157171095

Bara.

Some gay dudes I know enjoy the "manlier" BL games like Coming out on Top, too.
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>>157171095
>Which games for fags then
Metal Gear Solid
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>>157171246
Pretty sure Coming Out On Top was actually meant for dudes as well?
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>>157171035
>gay dudes
>missing any opportunity to bitch
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>>157172081

I know Obscura isn't a fan of traditional BL, but I wasn't sure whether it would count because the dev is a woman.
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>>157172383
Do bishoujo games not count as being aimed at men when women work on them?
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POST A FUCKING UPLOAD TO THE GAME ALREADY
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>>157175318
fuck off, seriously
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>>157175793
UPLOAD YOUR PROGRESS
>>
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>>157175956
i spent all morning arguing with people about ladykiller
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>>157177039
which IRC channel
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>People that try to go for the "anime" artstyle
Why? Why copy some generic trend? Why not make something original in your own style? 9 times out of 10 I find you're just gonna get negative rep for it anyway.
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>>157177119
Discord.
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>>157177119
here and /u/

>>157177414
literally 4 fags talking about food and mountain dew
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>>157177324
>in your own style
wtf is 'my own style', I'm not an artist, anyone I hire to do art for a game is not going to be 'my own style'
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>>157178281
I was mainly saying that for artists, but it also goes for people who tell others to do things in the "anime" artstyle.
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>>157177324
>Why not make something original in your own style?
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>>157177324
>implying anime can't be someone's own style
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>>157178578
so instead I should tell them to do things in the 'moebius' style and that will somehow make it my own style and much better than anime?
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>>157179231
Obviously the most western style is furries.
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Is Kickstarter for EVNs a scam now?
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https://picarto.tv/Aimlessart
Streaming progress >>156845645

NSFW
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>>157179231
https://www.change.org/p/president-of-the-united-states-execute-shadman
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>>157186385
>execute shadman
lel
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>>157186385
signed
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ladykiller in binder looks interesting from gamedev point of view; I noticed 'level of suspicion' variable and some Pillars of eternity-like dialog choices(honest, flirty etc).
please gib download for research reasons
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>>157192014
you're honestly pathetic

the gameplay is actually really superfluous. it's basically just a nice skin on the typical rpg set-up and points system found in every other vn, it warns you some choices give points and others suspicion, which you'll need to lower. like it's a dumbed down stress mechanic.

the only cool thing is some choices disappear. i'm shocked she spent so long on it.
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>>157192014
Suspicion is pretty much just every VN's point system, where you get a point in a variable based on some choices that get tallied. Here it's just shown to you.
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>>157184938
Take commissions?
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From /u/:
>i got a refund for ladykiller in a bind. humble was really fast about it and no questions asked

So that's an option.
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>Lucid9 constantly references nerd media
>Ladykiller constantly references nerd media
>both are not good

I found the pattern
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>>157125134
>Pretty sure the beta testers were all friends of hers
One of the BTs for Hate Plus was Zoe Quinn and probably was for this one too.
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>>157200902
If you pay for an EVN and it has memes in it, demand a refund immediately.
The more this happens the faster devshits will figure it out or go broke, either being acceptable.
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>>157196128
it depends
does it involve cute girls?
or even better
a cute cake?
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>>157202952
Yes and yes
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Looks like Lupiesoft dumped Sekai Project. Toko is now published on Steam under Lupiesoft themselves. Apparently Tao confirmed the split on patreon.
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>>157203093
Good, good
add me on Skype
Aimlessart
other dev/artist are welcome to add me too
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>>157202952
>>157203219
Is that you in the censor?
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>>157203219
Have a discord account?
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>>157203353
No
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>>157203214
Tao's a pretty salty dog, laddie.
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>>157203651
What does being sex partners have to do with anything?
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>>157203290
Yeah, of course.
Some dev that have a video skype with me can attest to that.
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>>157203651
Winged Cloud did the same thing a year ago.
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>>157204303
lupiesoft is the taylor swift of evns
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>>157204275
You look happy.
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>>157204556

Constantly getting parody accounts based on them?
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>>157203214
did he say why?
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>>157204303
Bitching and thinking you're more important than you actually are?
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>>157204628
Working with amazing dev in such a lovely environment does that to you.
The balding part that is.
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>>157204719
Not that I've heard. I have a few guesses though. One is the shake up at Sekai ever since those PR people got fired awhile back. Raithfyre was also ruminating about something likely as a result when that happened. The other thing could be that Tao's works are too extreme for Nutaku, which is Sekai"s main 18+ retailer at the moment.
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>>157206034
could be he left of his own volition
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>>157206250
Possible with the realization that a few retweets isn't worth 30% of all sales.
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>>156879618
Can I kill them all for being terrible people
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>>157184938
You are so unstable with your strems.
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I wish there were good female protag VNs
Instead it's always a self insert dude
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>>157211970
But there is... mine.
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>>157212109
Your VN is good anon, keep it up.
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>>157211970
Working on two VNs with female MCs.

Female MCs are fun to write.
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>>157212179
Any of them already playable?
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>>157212289
Long way off that.
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>>157212441
Post here whenever it's playable, I'd love to try it.
What other themes are going to be featured?
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>>157211970
3 more months.
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>>157212713
Hope that mindbreak is coming along nicely.
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>>157212752
Theres 3 separate instances of it now.
No brakes on the kink train.
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>>157212857
does your game have watersports and if so is it on the incest route
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>>157212924
yes and yes
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>>157212857
>3 separate instances
Marry me, you beautiful bastard.

It'd better have some consensual handholding in broad daylight, too.
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>>157213034
2 of them are "bad" end exclusive, 1 is simply part of the route.
Sorry to disappoint, it's non-consensual handholding at night.
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>>157213132
Do they at least do it under the covers with pure intentions?
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>>157212713
That's a big dick.
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>>157213175
Nah, they're lying outside watching the stars, ara falls asleep during so alpha holds her hand while she has the chance.
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>>157213368
This sounds cute.
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>>157211970
>always a self insert dude
>I pay no attention to the EVN market at all

Unless you simply meant that all the hordes of otome and yuri games are shit.
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>>157215567
>Unless you simply meant that all the hordes of otome and yuri games are shit.
wouldnt be off the mark t b h
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>>157215567
As much as I love yuri, I can't really think of a decent yuri EVN off the top of my head. That said, I can't recall that many, either. Any examples of some good ones?
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>>157215823
According to /u/ the best yuri EVNs are Starlight Vega, A Little Lily Princess, and Highway Blossoms

People are hoping Love Ribbon will be good too.
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>>157215943
Highway Blossoms was thoroughly mediocre which doesn't bode well, but I guess I'll try the other two.
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>>157215751
well yeah but how many good evns are there with a self-insert dude either?
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>>157216013
At this point I think you guys are better off just asking how many good evns there are.
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>>157216329
SAVAGE
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>>157216418
True.
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>>157216329
1
UAB
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>>157216517
If you weren't going to post this, I was
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>>157216329
Katawa Shoujo, Juniper's Knot, Dysfunctional Systems Chapter 1
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>>157216572
ur gay
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>>157216572
>good
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i liked cupid
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Shira Oka is kind of lame but you have to respect the amount of work that went into it.
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>>157203214
>Looks like Lupiesoft dumped Sekai Project.
The other way around
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>>157217942
what does it take to get "We'll Publish Anything!" to drop you?
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>>157218773
Being Taosym?
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>>157218971
Admittedly, Tao can be really annoying, but still
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>>157212713
>implying dudes aren't self inserting into MC's Alpha-ness

Kek.
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>>157215943
>SV
>HB
Such low standards. No wonder /u/'s such shit.
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>>157220003
Why don't you show them a real yuri game?
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>>157220295
Any mega links?
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>>157220392
someone make a download full of dick pics and give it to this guy
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Will my heroine be accepted by /evn/?
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>>157218971
and you know this how?
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>>157220723
Is she a slut?
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>>157215751
>Frozen Essence
>7 Kingdoms: The Princess Problem
>Aloners

All well-written otome games.
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>>157220963
You're free to believe this or not, it's up to you. Only a moron would say anything that could reveal their identity while talking about drama.
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>>157223969
I don't even like Tao and I know better than to give credit to vague rumor mongering like your post
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>>157223969
>>157224524
It doesn't sound like Tao was the one that got dumped in his comment about the split.

>Short and sweet, we've cut ties with Sekai Project but we need them removed from our Greenlight as publisher in order to release our game.
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>>157224685
in this kind of situation neither side is going to admit they were the one that was dumped though, since it doesn't make them look good
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>>157219946
Oh, I'm fully aware.
They're going to regret it.
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>>157224685
See >>157224894
Let's put it this way, Sekai does not talk about EVNs they drop. Hell, they hardly even talk about the ones they pick up.

If I had to guess, Tao saw an opportunity to make himself look better after being dropped and took it. With the kind of contracts Sekai has, it would not be the easiest thing for a developer to just walk out like that. He probably got kicked out.
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>>157225159
>>157223969

Yeah, there's no way anyone would want to leave Sekai Project

>inb4 you guis don't have to believe me, wink wink, saying that makes me more trustworthy, wink wink
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>>157216572
>Katawa Shoujo
Good in parts

>Juniper's Knot
Not shit

>Dysfunctional Systems Chapter 1
fuck off Dani
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>>157225862
I'm not sure why joining them in the first place is such an attractive idea

They just leech half of your income, while Steam takes the rest, and you're left with hardly anything. All for what? Some pity tweets to their audience of people that are largely interested in the actual Japanese stuff they put out?

Are they that afraid of getting out there and conducting business themselves?
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>>157225159
As always, the catty drama behind the scenes is more interesting than the drama in the product.

WHY IS THIS
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>>157226095
I doubt it's half.
They help with fundraising though?
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>>157225862
You're under the impression wanting to just up an leave a publisher is easy or cheap.

>>157226137
Because we're women.
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>>157226137
you need it to feel alive because you don't get out much
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>>157226339
YOU DON'T KNOW ME
;_;
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>>157226302
No they don't. They've done that with a single isolated incident, and they did so underhandedly.
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>>157226421
Sekai Project DOES fund games, it's just that they'd rather try crowdfunding first (and direct funding means more involvement, which most devs don't want).
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>>157226303
>leave a publisher is easy or cheap.

So you're saying Sekai has a trapjaw around devs making them unable to leave?
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>>157226303
>You're under the impression wanting to just up an leave a publisher is easy or cheap.
I've heard from other people that Sekai's contracts were shit or non-existent, so just up and leaving with those things being true is very possible.
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>>157226303
>You're under the impression wanting to just up an leave a publisher is easy or cheap.
Depends on the contract, surely. Some contracts have a set period under which you cannot withdraw without big penalties. Others, either one of you can call it off at any point and then you only need about a month or so to wrap up loose ends. (It's not reasonable to expect people to pull your products the second you write in 'I Quit'.)
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>>157227289
wouldn't be surprised if they have WC's same attitude to contracts being too much of a hassle to set up, because neither side would want to go through the trouble of paying legal fees to pursue things if the contract was broken
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>>157229540
Neither side having the patience or money for lawyers doesn't stop a lot of people in the gaming world from drawing up simple contracts, a lot of it is bluff and social pressure.
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Who appreciates the irony that Tao is called annoying when he can't post a comment without the thread becoming about him. It's like /evn/ has a hate boner for this guy.
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>>157230959
well the thread is so stagnant with actual progress we have to take what we can get when it comes to topics to discuss
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How's Sakura Space? It just came out on Steam on the 10th. Kinda sucks for Tao that his yuri space game is supposed to come out in a few weeks and will now inevitably be compared to it.
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>>157216013
I liked A Little Lily Princess, but I wasn't too attached the the cast of Starlight Vega and some of the art was rushed and unfinished.
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>>157230959
>thread becoming about him
Don't flatter yourself, Tao. We're just having a giggle at Sekai's wonderful business practices as usual, you just happened to be involved in it this time.
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>>157231386
Starlight Vega's art was a real mixed bag because Razz's style changed when the game was in development for so long.
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>>157231386
>>157231458
Now that I think of it, Highway Blossoms had some less than stellar CGs too. Them sitting in the RV was a frequently used one, but was one of the worse CG.
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>>157231342
can't account for the story, but the art just looks so bland and safe at this point. They're just using the same templates and same boring ecchi poses game after game.

The characters don't look that good either. I think they've actively harming Inma's style by making her comply with the same body for every girl

I feel like their sales are dropping off with every release they make, too. But given they made Sakura Nova nutaku exclusive I guess they've found new venues to peddle their wares with better results.

the production values are still better than most other EVNs though
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>>157231458
Some of the CGs were just blatantly unfinished though, like unshaded or without backgrounds drawn in properly. It seemed kind of half-assed.
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>>157231587
Sakura Nova is a timed exclusive.

I really don't much care for Sakura games in Inma's style. The cutesy elements combined with the fanservice ones just don't mesh well for me. I think some of the characters look really weird/ugly as a result.
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>>157231769
>It seemed kind of half-assed.
Like slapping a short ending onto thrown together scenes from other routes and calling it a harem route?
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>>157231819
Ah, alright. The wording confused me. They seem quite proud of this one, boasting that it's twice as long as any other Sakura game.

Yeah, her art was much better in A Little Lily Princess. It's just a shame to see her style get so warped. I'm sure she makes tons of money from it and is living comfortably, so there's that at least
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>>157231587
I think the white-haired girl in Sakura Space looks really really cute desu...
But I don't think any of the other characters look very appealing, and I don't understand how their outfits are supposed to work.

The writing is not offensively bad or anything, it's just not super interesting.

What jars me the most is the characters look different in the VGs of the H version to the uncensored version, since they made their nipples visible in every single CG of the H version no matter what outfit the character is wearing, even though they're not visible on the actual sprite. It seems like a bit of an oversight.

But maybe I'm just thinking about it too much.
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>>157232003
where are my sakura lolis
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>>157232003
>it's twice as long as any other Sakura game
That's not really anything to boast about given the game's writing will drag on longer than normal now. It'd be like they stapled Sakura Beach 1 & 2 together and called it a single game.
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>>157232254
I think they used a different writer for this one if it's the one I'm thinking it is

I know they were looking outsource to a japanese writer and then translate the game back into english. Which might explain why the girls have profiles with their three sizes and stuff, since the Japanese are crazy about those details

Not sure if that'll result in a better story though, or just a poorly translated mess
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>>157232420
I random Japanese writer might not be any better than some random person on lemma. It really depends on who they got and what that person worked on. And you can really only do so much with the Sakura game when the CGs usually get done first and you just string them together.
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>>157231969
>harem route
was a route ever promised or just an ending?
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>>157232881
B-but I can't fap to that!
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>>157232923
It was mentioned as a route in at least one of the updates.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1005595766/starlight-vega-visual-novel/posts/1336344

And what is the point of a harem ending, if the route that leads to it makes no sense?
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>>157226303
>publisher

A publisher owns and operates a production/distribution system and directly manages sales at a wholesale/retail level. They assume the risk of accepting a work for publication and distribute that risk across a pool of the other works they are publishing (much like an insurance casualty pool), and are directly responsible for operating a marketing division which purchases advertising, arranges interviews, provides review copies and the like (and, it should be reminded, those expenses are entirely separate from the artists' payment).

The artist exchanges copyright in return for assuming no economic risk or responsibility for promotion/distribution, is generally paid a lump sum and sometimes a small percentage of the profits. Record companies, movie studios and video game publishers follow the same model, with minor variations.

JList, MangaGamer and DLsite are publishers: they choose product to translate and sell, incur the expenses of translation and work with the original software developers, run their distribution and sales channels, and do internet ad buys to promote product.

SP follows very few of the above. He (and it is a he, not a they) has no merchant credentials or distribution systems of his own, sells no product himself, prefers his clients depend on third party funding, in some cases treats his funding as loans against future sales, and as far as anyone here can tell, avoids spending money on marketing. Most importantly, his practices are inconsistent between teams/projects and vague (in one case, offering a lump sum for production but never mentioning sales cut).

The closest description for Sekai Project is 'impresario' and even then it only roughly fits. 'Sugar daddy' might be more apt.
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>>157233790
>JList, MangaGamer and DLsite are publishers
It's like calling Steam a publisher.
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>>157234458
JAST and MangaGamer do the translation work themselves and pay licensing costs to Japanese devs. They are publishers in those cases.

>>157233790
Denpasoft is a distribution channel, but a barely used one that many people don't buy from. JAST's and MangaGamer's stores have more traffic. Same with Nutaku.
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how do I draw eyes?
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Here's how to be successful. Make a vn with all-ages version for Steam and itch.io, and an adult version for Nutaku and MangaGamer. That way you'll get maxium profits.

Sekai Project is even getting paid extra by Nutaku for the timed exclusivity, so if your vn if good enough, see if you can get that exclusivity dosh too.
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>>157234840
Just trace them
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>>157232106
lolis with the same size boobs as everyone else
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>>157236826
Lolis even with DD sized boobs are very risky. Only retards will try to put them into western game.
I miss UAB so much
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>>157234840
find a picture of a cute scottish fold kitten and trace its eyes onto the face of your anime grill.
What the HECK Hiro, since when am I a VPN exit node? You'd think I would notice.
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>>157231342
It was very meh. It was short, the plot was extremely straightforward , and there was no real branching or routes. The characters were okay, nothing special but also not awful.
It's just mediocre all around. Not egregiously bad, but not particularly good either.
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>>157241003
If you go into it expecting anything more then lesbian sex romp: now in space! you're going to be disappointed. Like me.
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>>157242527
I felt like Sakura Dungeon was somewhat of a step up, but it feels like that was a fluke. They've gone back to their super generic titles now.
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>>157242704
Sakura Dungeon was something they spent months developing and had a clear vision in mind with it. The other titles feel like filler they barf out to keep the cash flow coming in, only really bothered about hitting quotas rather than trying to tell any kind of meaningful story. This evident in how the majority of new titles have had their secondary artist, Inma pushing out stuff.
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>>157242704
>>157243493
Sakura Fantasy Chapter 2 never.
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>>157244189
They already said it's been dropped, because they know the second chapter won't sell to their expectations.

Episodic releases are are a bad idea. They get discontinued, fans get antsy when there are month long gaps between parts, if the artist leaves or their style changes the art looks inconsistent, fans lose interest over time and forget plot points etc.
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>>157244189
I think they got scared away from doing chapter based stuff after that and felt sales weren't as good as they could have been.

They did promise a second chapter but that was over a year ago I think

I have to wonder if they ever even had a grand story in mind or were just padding things out until the CG quota was met and then abruptly ended it
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>>157244636
I believe they (or someone claiming to work for them) admitted they didn't really know what they were doing with the story
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>>157244610
If they have dropped it, then why did they add an adult patch with new scenes, and then Japanese voice acting to it?

>>157245113
I've heard that claim too. Very annoying either way, as it's the only thing other than Dungeon they've released that was actually interesting.
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>>157245543
>If they have dropped it, then why did they add an adult patch with new scenes, and then Japanese voice acting to it?
To soften to blow or because they didn't officially drop it back then?

It being dropped was officially confirmed on their patreon earlier this year.
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>>157246527
that patch was probably around about the time when they announced they were working on a second chapter.

Maybe they did that to hype everyone up and get them to buy the first chapter promising more was to come
>>
Almost lost you.
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>>157240959
offtopic but, do you have SoftEther installed?
Make sure you didn't click the setting that shares your IP with them.
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>>157253793
No, I don't even have a VPN, but thankfully it auto unbanned me immediately.
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I take it that y'all are like me - you can write but you can't REALLY program or draw or make music.

Are we ultimately just deluded idea guys?
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>>157254303
>you can write
Any retard with basic American education can 'write'.
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>>157254303
Sorry, the only thing I can't do is draw from that list.
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>>157254820
Unfortunately, that's the most important part.
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>>157254820
Post your art.
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>>157254303
I can't write, my art is mediocre and my code is too spooky for human eyes. And I also keep getting discouraged. I basically only go on because no one will make games that are perfect for me, so I might as well shit out an approximation.
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>Can write
>Can program
>Can steal- er, "compose" music
>Can't draw
>Literally every artist on the internet, commissioned or not are unreliable flakes
GOD DAMN IT
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>>157254886
Not for me, with the rest of the stuff I make money for art.

>>157254920
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>>157255205
start tracing
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My fifth manuscript got rejected after my Agent assured me it was a sure-fire thing, so fuck it, figured I'd give this a try.

Can I make an actually good VN with Renpy, or is it just training wheels?

Besides Katawa Shoujo and Long Live the Queen, have any english VNs achieved even a moderate amount of success?

Finally, is collaboration possible, or will it just devolve into the inevitable "creative differences" and most of the team doing no work at all?
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>>157255910
there's a big difference in structure between novels and visual novels. Don't just assume because you can write a novel that writing a VN will come naturally. There's far more to take into consideration than just writing a plot that goes from point A to point B.

Ren'Py is flexible enough for commercial products, though some people might argue it lacks features like Live2d, but your project isn't going to live or die by that.

Most other VNs that have seen huge amounts of success are heavy on the smut, like the Sakura titles, but there might be a few that have made it big without the need for that, I'm not sure.

If you're trying to get a team together and have them work under the promise of 'profit sharing' I guarantee it's going to split apart at some point. I'd recommend just commissioning people you need.
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>>157255910
>Can I make an actually good VN with Renpy, or is it just training wheels?
You can. It's not ideal, but it's the most accessible tool.

>Besides Katawa Shoujo and Long Live the Queen, have any english VNs achieved even a moderate amount of success?
see >>157256343
Just the porn ones, pretty much.

>Finally, is collaboration possible, or will it just devolve into the inevitable "creative differences" and most of the team doing no work at all?
Pay people. Seriously. Collabs between randos are hell and between friends, end friendships more often than not.
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>>157256343
>there's a big difference in structure between novels and visual novels. Don't just assume because you can write a novel that writing a VN will come naturally.

I understand. Sound cues, scene transitions, code that doesn't shit itself halfway through the novel, I'm sure I'm in for a ride. Fuck it though, I'll do whatever I have to to reach an audience.

>Most other VNs that have seen huge amounts of success are heavy on the smut, like the Sakura titles, but there might be a few that have made it big without the need for that, I'm not sure.

I don't mind smut. But I'd like to avoid straight up erotica, if possible. Like, porn scenes? Sure I'll write them. Putting a big titty lady on the cover? Sure I'll do that too. But I want to tell an actual story first and foremost. Any hybrid Eroge/Actual Story like FSN succeed in the West?

>Pay people. Seriously. Collabs between randos are hell and between friends, end friendships more often than not.

How much will I end up shelling out, for, say, art? My code will probably be an ugly fucking mess, and my music will fall just short of plagiarism, but I can manage both. Art I can't do, no matter how hard I work. For commissioned art, let's say I need someone to draw six sprites for six characters plus three CGs
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>>157258363
... are you seriously expecting us to tell you how much an artist will charge you? Jfc.
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>>157258363
>Any hybrid Eroge/Actual Story like FSN succeed in the West?
Not really. People who've invested a lot into the ero usually don't end up having much time and effort left to devote to the story. There are several games that have TRIED to do the story+ero thing, and have made at least some money, but I don't think any of them have really made a mark outside of the standard vn players, and they're often considered to be quite disappointing. (No One But Youdisappointed a lot of people.)
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>>157258806
I figured you'd have some experience contracting artists, and a list of pratfalls to avoid. I've had experiences with artists in the past, and they weren't particularly good.

Eighty bucks for a single picture which was delivered three weeks late and not even slightly resembling what I had described. Wasn't even fetish porn, just a sample I asked for.

If I'm coming across as a dick I apologize. As a rule I am skeptical towards commissioned work, but I am not so deluded as to think I will suddenly be able to draw.
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>>157258880
Unwonted Studios just has trouble sticking the landing. They draw people in with their concepts but their development ends up being a mess.

Did Catch Canvas release?
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>>157259385
to avoid these kinds of issues with commissioned art, you should learn a bit more about the general process.

For example, never hand money over until they've done a sketch at the very least to prove they're capable of handling your concept. If an artist wants money right away, and you've never worked with them before and are unsure of their abilities, don't hand money over.
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>>157258880
Darn. I can lower my standards quite a bit, but writing straight up porn is what I do when I need quick cash, it's not something I want to make a career of.

What are you working on, Anon? And what's your mindset behind it?

Don't worry, I'm not looking to steal ideas or mock your premise. I'm just curious.
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>>157259385

The problem is that this varies, and by a lot. You can find people in the 50usd range with some searching, while the japanese industry standard is somewhere aroudn 500usd per image.
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>>157259483
I don't think it's out yet.

>>157259747
I'm largely between projects at the moment owing to mental issues. In general I don't shoot for blockbusters, though. Cheap to produce, fun to make, turns a decent profit, that's all I ask.
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>>157259957
It's a paradox I am struggling with.

The best and most art I ever got was when I teamed up with an acquaintance to make a webcomic. She made countless images, even drew two comics of the damn thing when I was a naive 17 year old who thought you didn't need money to get people to work for you.

Eventually she bailed because drawing art for someone who just writes scripts is unrewarding, which taught me about how the real world works, but no matter what artist I commission, no matter how much I pay them, they just pale in comparison to the girl who, however briefly, drank my kool-aid

I have plenty of money, and I don't intend to ask an artist to work for free but I feel like the artists I pay will have to on some level care about the project beyond just the pay.
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>>157260017
Well, what projects did you work on in the past? Did you work alone, or with others? What challenges did you have?
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>>157260913
Almost nobody in the EVN world 'works alone'
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>>157260452
>ut I feel like the artists I pay will have to on some level care about the project beyond just the pay.

Personally, I ended up befriending my artist and she's just about as excited as I am for the game to finally be done, but you also have to be realistic. For a lot of people it's a job first and foremost, and they can't get emotionally invested in every single project.
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>>157261192
By "work alone", I don't mean "do everything", I mean "come up with the project concept, write, program, and pay others ."

That's the model a small scale project seems to be like in my mind - one guy gives it his all to make his vision reality, paying others to do what his own talent and drive alone cannot.
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>tfw you're the ideas guy in a one-man project and you taught yourself to write but you can't art
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>>157264556
Can you program? Do you have money?

Is your writing super good? Can you get a good composer on your side?

R07 made Higurashi a success despite the art looking like, uh... this
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>>157265591
I firmly believe that my writing is good

Not amazing, but good

Everything else can follow from that point
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>>157265826
Yeah if you've got money to hire an artist.

I figure you're like me and are making a VN because you realized literature stopped selling thirty years ago and that the only way to get published is to write a book about gay cowboys eating pudding
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>>157239789
Miss? Just play it again.
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>>157266023
>because you realized literature stopped selling thirty years ago

> several authors have become billionaires in that time

nah, you're just shit at either writing or marketing.
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>>157266425
Why does everyone always project so hard here?
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>>157266491
I don't know, the same reason people like to come here and make objectively wrong statements?
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>>157259483
>their development ends up being a mess
he drops contractors like flies, and they rarely have nice things to say about him
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>>157266719
Eh whatever man, I doubt you'd be making a Visual Novel if you felt confident about your chances in traditional publishing.

Video killed the radio store my man.
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>>157267570

> video killed the radio STORE

lmao, whatever you say. I'm working on a vn because I like what the medium offers.
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>>157267570
>, I doubt you'd be making a Visual Novel if you felt confident about your chances in traditional publishing

That's a fairly weird statement IMO. I would assume most people in evn are here because they like vns and/or anime tiddies.

Very few people are trying to win a prize for literature in here, although some at least make an attempt to have their prose not suck or to have some kind of message in the story somewhere.
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>>157265591
>R07 made Higurashi a success despite the art looking like, uh... this
and his penchant for heinous analogies
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>>157260452
Is the webcomic still around?
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>>157273036
why with this text style
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>>157202952
Continuing where I left yesterday
https://picarto.tv/Aimlessart
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Ravioli ravioli GIVE ME MUSIC
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>>157281615
Okay, here's some background music for the town part of the dungeon-crawler: https://a.pomf.cat/jcmozv.mp3

Also, sorry about the OP fiasco. Someone else should probably start the next one.
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Any ladykiller leaked links?
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How do I write about a serious subject matter without making it "edgy"?
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>>157293724
it's difficult to boil the reason down to one word
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>>157293724
You need to write about it with a sense of maturity and understanding. A suicidal character isn't going to strip off their clothing and bathe under the sun as they scream "I WANT TO SLIT MY WRISTS IN THE TUUUUUB!"

A lot of it has to do with respecting your readers enough to get the picture without explicitly stating certain facts. The character also needs to be established enough for their "edginess" to make sense. If the character's problems had begun prior to the beginning of the story, then I think all of the above needs to be taken into account, but with an added sense of delicacy.

It's hard to pinpoint exactly how you should go about it, but I think you'll know. Just be sure it doesn't come off as gaudy.
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>>157293724
add some tiddies to it.
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>>157294198
it's something close to this

I have a pretty early scene where the main character comes very close to committing suicide, and one bad ending where they actually do because nobody stops them

but it's not pointless edgy bullshit because they had an established reason to do it from earlier on and it's just a natural progression from how bad things have gotten for that character

also they're only ten years old at the time which makes it incredibly edgier but as long as you're not writing stupid bullshit like "the pitch black blood i felt coursing through my veins burned like acid" or something it should be okay
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>>157294453
Why would a 10 year old want to commit suicide?
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>>157294518
to be with his waifu forever
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>>157294518
because their life is very bad at the time
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>>157293724
Subtly.

Trying to tackle a serious subject directly in fiction is often like trying to stare directly into the sun: you don't see much anyway and your vision goes to shit.

Even worse is when you comment on how serious your subject matter is. Your reader's inherent ability to feel strong emotions in response to serious content is probably stronger than your ability to write those emotions out cleanly.

Trust your reader. If you respect them and you respect the gravity of the subject, they'll respect you and the subject as well.
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Someone please tell me a good color palette for clothes for an angry redhead. I've been stuck with this forever already.
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>>157296328
I know absolutely nothing about color palettes so here I go

Black and yellow (or orange)
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>>157296471
thank you, i will try that.
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To get a job you need a good portfolio.
To make a good portfolio you need a job.
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>>157294518
There are many reasons why a ten year old would WANT to, but most of them don't have the mental states necessary to make a serious attempt. Ten year olds do not think like adults or even like teenagers. They are likely to have confused ideas about how dangerous different actions really are.

>>157294453

So if you have your ten year olds slitting their wrists in a bathtub, or shooting themselves in the head with a handgun, I am going to laugh at your edgy bullshit. I don't buy that as 10yo behavior. Even a kid in a gun-owning family who knows how to use a rifle is probably not up to the task of figuring out how to shoot themselves with it, and would shy away from trying too hard. Angst-ridden child eating pills or poison is much more believable, but they usually get the dose wrong because, again, small child, limited planning capacity. You _might_ be able to convince me in terms of jumping off a building but that's still pretty hard, it doesn't seem like the kind of thing that connects emotionally to a child's despair.

However, a despairing child running away from home and freezing to death, swimming out to sea alone 'to escape' and drowning, or setting the house on fire in a fit of angst and then being unable to get away, these are things I find more believable.

Just my opinion though.
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>>157299749
That's why people volunteer for gamejam projects, anon.
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>>157299749
That's not really true... you can make a portfolio without a job or even a volunteer project. I had a couple of finished pieces of art to use as examples for my first commission and it was fine. You'd probably want more than literally two pieces but you don't need a lot. 3 - 5 is enough.
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>>157299874
I agree with that whole last part. I'm more inclined to believe in a small child doing something desperate and dumb in an attempt to escape or fix their shitty life and ultimately failing, like running away from home and freezing to death/dying in an accident/getting murdered by a rabid wild animal than voluntarily and directly killing themselves.
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>My artist has went silent for over a month
>Too pussy to contact her since she probably already abandoned me

Welp, at least it was payment for services done and no before.

Working with artists is so difficult, ugh.
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>>157302390
I thought I had it bad when I can't sleep half the night after messaging people for the first time, but at least I can actually write to them. Get it together senpai.
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>>157303081
It's just that I feel kinda guilty since I have the feeling I asked too much of her. It might get awkward if I raise the question.
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Pricing aside, tell me why third-world artists are more stable (communication, effort) than their first-world counterparts.
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>>157303257
If that was the case, she should've said so when you made the commission. Or told you that it was taking longer than expected and she needed more time.
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>>157303495
Because they don't want to work minimum wage day jobs when they can instead draw two a couple things a month and see those dollars convert into a lot of fucking pesos.

With that said, they're still generally garbage and get cocky very easily. Most artists/people are, if given the opportunity to taste power. Economic freedom is convenient, but leads to hubris more often than not.
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>>157303257
What did you commission her then?
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>>157303547
She did tell me a typhoon hit her town and she lost power, but that was 3 weeks ago and I would assume everything should've been back to normal now...
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>>157304709
I think I had a bionicle called "typhoon" when I was a kid. MAybe
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>>157265591
I'm honestly really surprised Higurashi took off. Only arcs 1 and 2 were good; everything else that followed got progressively worse in quality until it the lowest point of

>THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP
>MUH NAKAMA
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>>157306696
I've only seen the anime but I definitely didn't expect it to go from creepy and bloody murders to the power of friendship transcending space and time to overpower someone else's determination

By the end all those trained, elite forces turned into bumbling incompetent goons out of Home Alone, tumbling over barrels and stuff when just a few episodes ago they were slitting throats and engaging in covert missions. Maybe the VN handles it better but man was that silly
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>>157306696
Is this a japanese kind of thing?
Zero Escape was interesting throughout until the true endings.
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>>157308448
I've read somewhere in relation to seacats/higurashi that jap mystery novels are more focused on confusing the reader and throwing wild TWEESTS instead of presenting a logical puzzle like classic golden age western ones, maybe that has something to do with it, they just don't care that much about tying everything nicely and emotionally invested endings are popular too.
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>blindsided
Right, because "raped" would be too on the nose.
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>>157311252
Leak where?
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>>157311252
this dev literally doesn't think this scene was rape. i thought people were just referring to the trans thing when they said she has mental issues
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>>157312231
she should get a therapist
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>>157312231
>she
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>>157312467
>she
Tell me more.
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>>157312776
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>>157313026
Is that Jake Bowkett?
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>>157313548
She's further along and looks better than that now. Really, does it matter? The game is the game regardless. Getting hung up on who made it is exactly what makes some of the SJWs so defensive of it despite its shit.
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>>157313649
>The game is the game regardless.
Can't tell, since I can't pirate it.
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>>157313548
don't bully jake-o
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friendly reminder trans people think it's transphobic when a lesbian/straight male don't want to fuck them
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>>157313809
>>>/wsr/
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>>157313840
so what do we call trans women who want to fuck other women
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>>157313840
Jesus christ.
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>>157313840
not all trans people!
(What a fucktard)
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>>157311252
>>157312231
/u/ has been a great source of entertainment from this vn's release.
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>>157312231
This whole thing has been a mess. It's basically

> it's not rape if they enjoy it!!
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>>157316675
Some people draw distinctions between rape (violent force) and questionable consent (duress, blackmail, drugs). Lack of agreement on which is which leads to a lot of angry arguing.
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>>157316675
I'm more bothered by all the players who think it's fine because they just didn't come across it
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>>157316851
Well, if there's a shit-eating scene in an eroge but it only comes up if you pick the gross route, does it necessarily affect your enjoyment of the rest of the game?
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>>157316675
yeah, i'm not even that TRIGGERED about rape, i've seen plenty of doujins featuring it. the way it's presented in ladykiller is extremely offputting, and the fact that the dev made tumblr; the game and doesn't think it's rape is ridiculous.

the rape doujins know they're rape and don't try to present themselves as a "parallel between the other sex scenes"
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>>157316956
If the game had been advertised to people who have an aversion to shit-eating on the basis that there was no shit-eating in it, yes. Though it's difficult to come up with a one-to-one synonym for including scenes that are the ultimate embodiment of all the 'you just have met the right dick yet' tropes that lesbians have to deal with all the time.
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>>157316956
Missing context
If the game was advertised as a non-shiteating game, 6 nights of non-shit eating action.
And the key part of the MCs identity was not liking to eat shit.
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for an actual criticism of LKIAB; i was bored in 8 hours. it's more repetitive and linear than CL presents it.
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>>157317196
I was pretty disappointed in the amount of art content. Only 2 characters have any real amount of non-sprite pieces (most people just have 1); there's no full CGs, just some cut-ins. Feels pretty bare bones.
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Sweet Volley High has offended /u/ as well, but if the third girl's 'route' is a brief thing that appears if you have sex with the male option and he dumps you, you have a one night stand with this other girl and then she dumps you too is true, then I can see why.
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Can someone upload ladykiller to mega? I want to join that conversation too.
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>>157317816
i guess we'll have to wait til it comes out on steam to get concrete answers. i'm not keen on buying from nutaku since i don't think they refund.
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>>157318034
no, and any inclination i had to upload it before was gone the second i saw your constant begging on here and /u/
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>>157318385
you only want to upload things if no one wants to download them?
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>>157318485
Hipster file sharing
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>>157317108
>and the fact that the dev made tumblr; the game and doesn't think it's rape is ridiculous.

This is what baffles me. The game is preachy about every almost every subject known to man, then turns around and does it.
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>>157318783
the dev being mentally insane is the only explanation i have.
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>>157318385
What if I tell you that I'm not posting on /u/
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>>157318885
Well the dev is heterosexual male.
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>>157100693
You're a pretty good artist. Aren't you worried about people taking your background and using it in their creations? Or is that just something you have to expect in this industry?
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>>157319110
She's a bi slut
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>>157319225
>800x475
I wouldn't bother stealing it.
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>>157121274
>>157122686
Massive jaw and broad shoulders. Why can't people learn a few simple tricks for drawing women?
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>>157319329
Who calls herself a lesbian. Which I think explains all you need to know about those scenes.
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>>157319364
I see. So people can just post their content in small resolutions.
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>>157319587
... Did you really think people were making games in 800x475? In freaking 2016?
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>>157122686
gay
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>>157319635
I just popped into this thread on a whim and started reading a bit from the top. I'm not really familiar with anything here.
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>>157319718
> with anything here

What kind of games are you seeing in that resolution, vns or not?
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>>157319962
Well it didn't strike me as odd because I figured people read visual novels in small windows. But you're right, I always play games in 1920x1080, and the artists should have their screens in the largest possible resolution.
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aw
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>>157319225
yeah, the resolution is too bad for anything
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why this
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>>157327206
never mind the hair why are the words a mile apart from one another
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>>157327206
which one is transsexual lesbian
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>>157328203
both
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>>157327206
Why avatar doesn't match the sprite?
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>>157299874
>>157300827
Well, the situation I have is one where that character becomes totally catatonic as a result of losing someone, and it was someone they basically couldn't function without and had no way to get back.

Intentional self-harm definitely seems like the way to go there.
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>>157329268
I just don't see a child harming themselves with the intention of dying. They could be trying to get back whoever they lost in a fucked up way, like if the child's parents were constantly talking about how "dead people just fall asleep for a really really long time", they OD on sleeping pills trying to also fall asleep "for a really really long time", etc. Motivation is the key here, and I simply don't think a child is mentally capable of deciding "that's it, shit's fucked, time to slit my wrists".
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>>157330253
I'm reasonably certain I've read about the NHS having to deal with children as young as 9 or 10 presenting with self harming injuries. Of course, that doesn't mean it extends as far as suicide attempts.
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>>157330595
I feel like those cases are extremely rare. You would need a lot of effort to pull it off without making it look weird or unnecessarily angsty.

There are two major components here: 10-year-old and suicide/self-harm with the intention of self-harming (meaning it's not a byproduct of some other action(s)). Are you sure you need them both as they are?
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>>157330253
Okay, let me lay out the sequence of events then.

Main character's sibling falls terribly ill shortly after their parents are murdered in front of him, and several other people contract the same illness at roughly the same time. Sibling is institutionalized to deal with that illness, with main character being allowed to visit on occasion but not as much as he'd like to.

This happens when both are 8 years old. For the next two years, the sibling's condition becomes worse and worse while the main character is forced to watch it happen, and to make things worse the other patients steadily improve instead of deteriorating.

So for two years, from the ages of 8 to 10, the main character has to watch the only person left in his family slowly get worse and worse until they die, at which point he loses all hope and is only prevented from ending himself by the person who adopted him.


I know it's not the most realistic reaction for most people that age, but I definitely feel that it's a possible one that makes sense within the context.
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>>157330961
I'm just a random anon btw, but
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/14/boy-suicide-attempt-my-little-pony-bullying/7712843/
>In the short time since her son's life-altering decision, an estimated 5,200 U.S. children ages 10-14 also attempted suicide according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System.
it is something that happens, but I assume you need a very deft hand to make it believable, since they're generally such outlying cases
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>>157269409
Webcomic never became a thing. Artist bailed because she was "sick" but it was clear she was just letting me off easy. Have the images on an old thumbdrive somewhere.
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>>157330253
>I just don't see a child harming themselves with the intention of dying
yeah, they can have suicidal intentions but would probably go about it a different way. Like just running away or something.
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>>157331006
I still don't buy it, sorry. Run away, yes, do something stupid in a panic that can accidentally lead to death, yes, harm himself as punishment for being a failure, yes, ATTEMPT suicide and fail, yes, but the way you phrase 'lose all hope and end himself' just doesn't sound like kid thinking.

The way you're putting it makes it sound like the kid has a clear plan with a solid goal that will definitely work and will totally accomplish it unless stopped. Even teenagers often aren't that focused about it.

Sure, your kid is very upset and sad and has reason to think 'I want to die', but he's still a little kid. Maybe if the method is dangled really obviously in front of him so it takes no thought on his part, but otherwise...
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http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/283320/Id_Ship_It_Ladykiller_in_a_Binds_use_of_BDSM.php

It's so consensual, y'all.
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>>157333832
>This is the sex game we need in 2016.
I find that really fucking hard to believe.
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>>157333832
I hate these people
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>>157333494
You're really telling me that if you lose everything and have to watch it slowly spiral downward for two years you're not going to want it to all be over when you finally hit rock bottom?

Even a kid can experience that.
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>>157334024
i think anyone can publish a gamasutra
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>>157333832
is this what gamasutra is about now? I'm glad I've dropped it.
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>>157334598
>You're really telling me that if you lose everything and have to watch it slowly spiral downward for two years you're not going to want it to all be over when you finally hit rock bottom?

(look back at actual post >>157333494 )
>Sure, your kid is very upset and sad and has reason to think 'I want to die'

You seem to be missing the point. It's not about lacking the despair, of course a kid can experience despair. Of course a kid can want to die. I contemplated suicide for much stupider reasons when I was nine.

The issue is whether a small child can couple that despair with the skill and planning necessary to come up with a foolproof death method, one that will absolutely succeed unless they are stopped.

'end myself' sounds very businesslike and very unchildlike, it sounds much more advanced in terms of suicidal ideation. And honestly I'm starting to feel bad about talking about this in great detail here because, even if this ain't tumblr, I am a bit worried about triggering somebody. I suspect a LOT of us have spent some time dealing with this shit in our lives.
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>>157336817
Well, there's not planning necessary. It's not some elaborate thing. What I had written was simply "event happens, catatonic state for 2 weeks, followed by main character deciding that waiting was pointless and it was time to just stop it all by using a knife in the kitchen to bleed out"

There's not really planning involved in it from the main character's perspective, because he doesn't need to plan. He doesn't give a shit about anything, so he figures he might as well just quit.

I don't care if people are getting upset, because this entire conversation was based on handling serious subject matter in writing, which is what I'm trying to do. I've basically come up with a scenario where a 10 year old boy behaves in what I think is a realistic way and tries to kill himself. I figure it's common knowledge that adopted children have higher rates of depression and various other issues, especially during childhood.

I know that's pretty dark, but I'd like to think that I wasn't so crass about it that it turned into being pointlessly edgy.
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>>157335165
do you even understand how gamasutra works? posts like these are blog posts. literally anyone can write a blog post on gamasutra (pic related) and it will appear on the gamasutra domain like this one. like i could make a post saying 'playing dragon age made me appreciate the nuanced flavor of my dog's poop' and it would show up and i could link to it and show people 'look at this article on gamasutra'. it's no different from blogging platforms like tumblr or medium or wordpress

the only "editorial" thing that happens on gamasutra is the curated front page, which is to say that if you're for example someone who is prominent in the industry and people care about what you say it might show up on the front page, whereas if you are a shit-stain that nobody cares about, the only people who will ever see your article are the people that you've directly linked there. notice how the post you're talking about has no comments? you're not going to see this shit if you're just browsing the front page of gamasutra.com
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>>157337620
Sorry, but it sounds like stupid edgy shit that cares more about LOOK HOW DARK THIS IS than about believable behavior. You asked how not to make it sound too edgy, several of us answered, you decided you didn't care. It's your story, go ahead.

Do you know how difficult it is for a small child to correctly cut themselves enough to bleed out? Even if they know WHERE to cut, which they don't, it's a lot harder than it seems to intentionally cut yourself with a kitchen knife. Especially when you're a little kid and don't even know the difference between the knives.
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>>157337620
>deciding
That's the main problem. To make this decision look natural, you'll have to establish that:
1. The kid is very familiar with the concept of death and how it works
2. The kid understands what suicide is, how killing oneself works, how to actually accomplish that (where and how to cut, where to get drugs to OD, places you can jump down from, etc.)
3. The kid is mature enough to lose any hopes and dreams and only see the reality as something you can't escape from unless you die
4. His situation is so dire there's virtually no other way to go about it
5. His relationship with his sibling was his only drive to live

Even then, a direct, conscious attempt to end his life would feel out of place. Now, slowly withering away by refusing to eat, move, losing the will to go on, etc. might work.

Also, the whole "parents getting killed in front of him" thing sounds like angst for the sake of angst.
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>>157338952
Wrong, actually

I wasn't the one who asked how to write with serious subject matter and not sound edgy while doing it, I was someone who tried to provide examples

I fully believe in what I'm doing, and everything I've said is simply a continuation of the discussion, not me wanting to change my mind

I'm definitely open to criticism, and once I have people proofreading I'll be willing to change events around if they read as ridiculous, but I do believe it's a realistic situation even if it doesn't necessarily happen with a knife.

You don't have the full context that someone who read everything up to that point would have. Not that I'm totally dismissing what you've said, but there's a huge difference between how you seem to be perceiving things and how I've intended for them to be perceived.
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>>157327206
what's mei and zenyatta doing there
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does anyone have a good dick drawing reference?

I figure /evn/ should have one.
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>>157343645

>>157122686
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>>157313649
desu 90% of the time when i am made aware of clove's appearance it is because she is the one who decides to bring it up by saying 'look how cute i am'

like i get that it's mean to bully people based on their appearance out of nowhere but our opinion on things like art, writing etc is that any time you post it online, you open yourself up to being criticized. like we'd laugh at anyone who says "how DARE you say bad things about drawings i posted on DA" and probably the biggest reason people hate lemmasoft is because it's a big grouphug-fest where people get butthurt if you say "i think this story is poorly written." so why should selfies be any different? if you go on the internet to say "hey look at me i'm so cute!" and then people say "i disagree" do you really have any right to complain? it's not like these photos of clove were uploaded to the internet without her consent, like do you think someone broke into her apt and forced her to pose for these? $5 says that clove is the one holding the camera in this photo
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>>157338443
Oh alright, sorry, I didn't know that.
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>>157345216
do you have any idea how pathetic you sound. who the hell seeks out someone's selfies to conscientiously object to them

"why hello there. I see you appear confident in your appearance but you see I quite disagree and you can't stop me because you consensually uploaded the photos~"

If someone you don't know says "I drank some beautiful wine" and you just reply "I don't like wine" it makes you look completely brain dead.

I cannot wait until there's a better public place to talk VN dev than here or LSF.
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>>157348512
> seeks out
> when Clove posts them on twitter
> which is not even locked to only followers
> and they get retweeted by others

???
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>>157348512
>If someone you don't know says "I drank some beautiful wine"

I'd call them retarded for calling wine beautiful
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>>157348512
it's not as if i have to seek out clove selfies, they appear regularly on my timeline. and btw i have not said anything critical of her appearance in this thread (or others), but i do think it's defensible for other people to.

it'smostly about the intent of the person who posted the pictures. if it were a case of someone saying "hey here's a photo of me with my new puppy" and someone responded saying 'you look really ugly in that photo' then yeah that is being unnecessarily nasty. but someone saying "hey look at me i'm so cute!" and someone responing "no ur not" is a lot different.

like, i am something of a fashionista (i am a cosplayer, used to work for a cosmetics company, and i'm also dabbling in character design as an artist) and people post pictures of themselves all the time in clothes that i personally think are really unflattering, but i would never go out of my way to say "hey the outfit you're wearing in this unboxing video is really ugly." but if someone posts some gaudy-looking outfit and says "omg look at how cute i am in this outfit" then i am more likely to say "i think that looks garish", not because i feel like i need to be the 'fashion police,' but because they brought it up first. just like someone posting a crappy drawing and then expecting to be lavished in praise.

so yeah my point was not "posting pictures of yourself online means you open yourself up to people attacking your appearance," but if you are going to regularly tweet to say nothing other than to say "look at me i'm cute" then you are the one who made the conversation about your appearance
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>>157348706
This t b h
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>>157348603
I dunno man I'm pretty sure that when CL tweeted this out to her 20,000 twitter followers she was only intending it to be seen by her close friends and confidants.
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>>157348512
how does CL dick taste?
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>>157350562
Remember, if anyone defends a woman for any reason it's because they're trying to get into her panties.
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>>157350943
>woman
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>>157350943
>woman
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>>157348512
>>157350943
Just shut up, you little bitch. So long as someone is putting themselves out there, there will be people in 4chan ready to shit-talk them.
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>>157352730
I can't say I have a huge amount of sympathy nor empathy for clove anymore desu
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>>157351020
>>157351363
If they disagree, they really shouldn't act like that.

Usually when one makes that accusation about a man it's that he's sucking YOUR dick, isn't it?
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>>157310854
I remember I read one JP mystery novel by a popular author (whose works influenced Cartagra and KnS a lot - the entire plot of Cartagra was lifted from a Natsuhiko Kyogoku novel) and the 'big plot twist' was that 3 main characters who witnessed the crime scene all had a hallucination that there was a dead body in the room, when there wasn't actually.

This was preceded by long, unwieldy chapters talking about schrodinger's cat box and how multiple realities can exist at once before you examine it thoroughly, which made me think it possibly also inspired Umineko. It was very Umineko-y...

Except the grand reveal was much more ridiculous than anything presented in Seacats.
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>https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=40753

just a warning that this is konett, for anyone that's worked with them previously.
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>>157354692
Was that moryu no haku author? His books are 2deep4me, could barely finish the animu adaptation. And it kind of feels like a let down when there isn't a real answer at the end.
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>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/traumendesmadchen/chronotopia-a-dark-fairytale-visual-novel
>111 backers
>$9000

how
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>>157355304
what's the story with them?
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>>157355319
Yeah, it's the same author.
It was interesting to read one of his books since the influences on the KnS series is just so apparent (like, the twist in Cartagra was the exact same one as Summer of the Ubume, and there were a lot of other elements, like the setting and some character backstories, that were really similar), and all the talk about metaphysics and 'the truth' and how reality shifts depending on your perceptions is a massive Umineko thing. Since this guy is so popular and influential, I wouldn't be at all surprised if some mystery VN authors were borrowing and adapting on his ideas.

(imo it's pretty cheap when a mystery novel tries to solve its riddles by pulling a ~but what is the truth really, it fluctuates and changes depending on your perception!~ thing, since mystery novels are supposed to actually answer their mysteries and not vaguely handwave them away, but maybe this is a cultural difference...)
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>>157355304
what the heckaronie jabronie? That's me. But don't tell people I like to say "fuck" a lot.
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>>157355304
what is wrong with konett?
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>>157356289
inb4 thread dies before I get to know why on earth would someone say something so dumb
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>he won't even apologize for spreading rumours
yeah alright, back to work. Thanks for 10 minutes of excitement I guess.
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KONETT 2012

THEY CAN'T GET AWAY WITH THIS

am only joking friend. But really, I wonder what that person's deal was, since they seem to have vanished now after we didn't eat up what they were spouting
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>>157355912
One person donated a very large sum of money and apparently didn't go for a high tier. Is Sekai attached to this?
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>>157358989
kek
actually I dug around, looked at konett's art and have uncovered THE TRUTH
turns out she and I probably used the same 3dwarehouse model for on of the BGs (though they are pretty different except for that).
I don't know how did he/she make the jump from that to conspiracy theories (and why would she charge less all of a sudden? I can afford it because I'm a 3rdworlder basically).
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>>157356570
I take time to reply and override my self-imposed deadlines, but I deliver my stuff?

>>157358989
I mostly work on vn commissions. Doing the character art for A Foretold Affair and a project that hasn't been announced yet. Sometimes I work on my own projects but I have had little time since I started freelancing.

>>157359257
Yeah I've used a few 3D models in old personal projects and a handful of cc bgs. I draw my bgs in clip studio paint nowadays tho.
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>>157360505
why even use a different account? are you running from someone?
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>>157360505
ayy there's probably a vendetta-chan lurking around then. Did you turn down some kid who begged you to work for free or something?
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>>157361157
What different account? The thread linked is not konett's, try to keep up.
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>>157361352
>>157355304
You keep up.
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>>157361458
oh for fuck's sake
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>>157361157
I'm not using a different account? >>157355304
My backgrounds don't tend to have lighting like that. Looks super nice tho.

>>157361249
I refused some work-for-free-until-Kickstarter projects, but I don't think that's it.
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>>157355304
I don't get it, what am I missing
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>>157361641
nothing, someone is blind and mixed two artists up
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New thread, or should we let this one fester for a few hours first?
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>>157362923
How about we leave /evn/ dead for good?
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>>157362995
How about you leave /evn/ for good?
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