[Locked] Katawa Shoujo Developer Q & A

How do you individually feel when the game is referred to as having been created by 4chan? How about the team in general? Do you feel any sort of connection with /a/ or 4chan in general at this point?

say if you take the shizune route: will you have him learn/pick up sign language to have him communicate with her at least on a base level with her without needed misha? and how entwined with misha be with the shizune route?

hullo.

1. when the full game releases when you take kenji's route will it ultimately end up the same with nakai dieing?

2. is there a chance that there will be actual voices for this novel?

3. (looking into the distant future) are you guys gonna make more visual novels?

At one point, will you be able to put one of Rin's stumps into your mouth?

At one point, will you be able to put one of Rin's stumps into your mouth?

How many in jokes with the dev team will we be seeing (and likely not noticing) in the final product, could you say? A ton? Some? None at all?

And do you guys ever have fun with the project to let off some steam? Artists drawing gag comics, writers writing completely non-canonical scenes, etc? The stuff we'd never see.

Well, first of all I'd choose the setting more carefully than "Japanese high school". :P

The structure of a visual novel allows so much more than a traditional book, so that's where I'd look next. Interactive storytelling does not have any well understood theory yet, so it's very hard area to explore for an amateur writer. I'd especially would like to break away from the "path/branch" line of thinking. Here's an interesting article about the subject: http://gwsig.quantumcontent.com/?p=13

Third area is presentation, but it's an area where amateur budget creates an impassable wall. Visual Novels are produced with the same mentality as animation, maximum reusability and cost saving being the priorities. This means that same sprites, camera angles, locations and characters will repeat themselves endlessly over and over. As the best example to the contrary: Littlewitch's Quartett broke radically away from the traditions of visual novel presentation with its FFD engine, with magnificent results. The game looks like an coreographed slideshow animation of a comic book with background music and voice acting. It's one of my favourite visual novels ever, but something like that would be impossible for 4LS to make.

Thanks for answering my questions, including the one that was already answered. One last one:

How many members are left from the era of original inception? Back when the thread was stickied, and anon was rampant.

Oh, a simple question now.
Will we get a full CG of Hanako's face? I don't like the emover she has, but I understand that she wants to cover herself.

Well you gave me specifics about Emi that I asked earlier, but I am still curious, this question goes for all the other girls, do you have kinky H-scenes planed or will these be normal H-scenes, nothing out of the ordinary?

In reference to the images on http://shimmie.katawa-shoujo.com/

It says I should ask for membership - I tried to just ask you via PM but there seems to be some issue with that at the moment so I'm going to have to ask you in this thread, if that's OK.

The H scenes might be out of the ordinary, but maybe not in the way you'd expect.