[Locked] Katawa Shoujo Developer Q & A

i get that route at m first try --a..
is it a super bad ending ?

Taken from cpl_crud which was addressed to the same question, which can be found here

To start off people taking this topic and skipping to the last page, it might take some kind of commitment, but you should check the other pages first if your question has been already asked(and perhaps maybe answered) because redundancy is no one's friend except for those who enjoy a cheap laugh. Just got through reading all of those pages myself, it took about half an hour, but it was time well spent since it answered so many questions and saw many answers to questions that I didn't even think about asking until at that point.

Damnit, missed the majority of the Q&A, hopefully there's more to come later as our developers rise from the bed. People were expected to ask questions in an intelligent and mature manner, means that people shouldn't make comments just based on personal bias or opinions like "Oh, Hanako is the cutest girl ever! More scenes of her, yes?" "I think this is kind of sick(you're on a h-website under general mass-approval of incest, don't think it bothers everyone)" or just stuff like that. Besides, this game's characters show little to no sign of actually being "handicapped", so don't worry too much about that.

*Compliments-Although it might not relate to the devs, it really does personally connect to me since I've been on many occasions in the same predicament and it's surprising how many things Hisao think of in similarity, so you get the ribbon on how authentic this really is.
To Aura, Rin has become my favorite character after trying to get Shizune and Lilly out of pure interest, but found myself in a real bind trying to draw away from such an interesting character who can say things that either lead you to dramatically overthinking things that are meant to be simple and can be thought of as nothing else entirely, like a wild card, but I'm sure you know that best. The level of work in her scenario in Act1 appears to be the largest and most independent after making the final few decisions, it was a really nice treat to end the demo and found myself even more drawn to your character. To Blue123, the music blew me away, it would take too much additional space to rant on to compliment your works before I ask some questions, so I hope you'll settle for: It's awesome.
And even to those who cannot be here with us at this Q&A, to the devs at 4LS, thank you very much!

*Questions-Blue123, is it possible for you to list what works you've composed so we can credit seperately and not make the mistake of crediting someone else with your works or reversely?
Aura, just as a note of personal curiosity, how were you able to study the workings of people who are disabled?

I was following both of these threads during the Q & A, it's quite fun to see what the reactions were as information was revealed.

http://archive.easymodo.net/a/cgi-board.pl/thread/21204208

http://archive.easymodo.net/a/cgi-board.pl/thread/21206701

Like everyone else I want to thank you for your answers and wish you the best of luck over the next year as you finish the game ^_^ Be sure to keep us updated on how it's progressing.

so yeah i just finished the demo and I AM SOO BUYING THE GAME OMFG

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit's not for sale, it's for download.

You don't need to, since you can both play the demo and the full version for free, they don't plan to sell the game.

Just my opinion on this: There really shouldn't be a problem with any activists, once they realize what the game is like. After all, it's not a game about disability fetishes, but a one that shows that disabled people are normal people as well. Rather than protesting, they should support this game.

Of course, I do also understand that it might be rather difficult to get this through the heads of some of them...

I played act one, but it seemed to me that Shizune would notice someone would talk to her. Is she deaf? or is she simply mute?

Yes, Shizune is deaf.

We tried the script with "Misha taps Shizune on the shoulder..." every second line, but it just got in the way.

So it is assumed that, if someone talks to Shizune, that she is informed somehow.

Well... Shicchan is remarkably smart, so she'll be able to get a lot out of facial expressions made by the person she's observing than the average person, I believe, but not sure. It might save a dev some time to answer that way, it took me a while to figure out Shizune too, just imagine Misha is signing frantically everything that everyone is saying to Misha and/or Shizune, so it'd be like a robot doll that Shizune uses to communicate with everyone that has emotions and with no volume control who's easily taken advantage of, although extremely loud sound waves can cause vibrations in the air too, although haven't seen Shizune pick up on that yet... Halfway through the first time while not really getting if Shizune was either just mute or both deaf and mute, began to wonder if somewhere along the line she just learned how to read a person's lips.(idea much?) Aww man... mouth-agape mute(during H?) kind of adds an unexpected flare than I previously thought.

Just visted the site looks interesting. I'll DL and play ASAP.

She's deaf, not blind. How do YOU tell someone's talking to you if they don't say your name? Because they're looking straight at you and moving their mouth.

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Ugh is it too much to ask that people read the first few pages of the thread or maybe check the website or at least make SOME kind of effort to find the most basic of info about the game before they go off in here spouting dumb questions that were answered in the thread, answered in the post on the front page, answered in the "History of Katawa Shoujo" blog post linked to in the post on the front page, AND answered on their main website? Especially when Jacob suggested that everyone do exactly that and provided some nice links when he first announced this Q&A?

Is Lilly a newtype? Her little face off with with Shizune just seemed to have a bit of a Char/Amuro vibe to it. the lightening strike (Newtype Flash!) in the background sorta didn't help with that impression either.

If anyone is going to ask more questions please read through the entire thread to make sure it wasn't answered already.



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