[Locked] Katawa Shoujo Developer Q & A

Her birth defect is unspecified, but she was born with deformed arms that were amputated at first opportunity. She has about 15-20cm long stumps that end neatly.

Our artists use Paint Tool Sai and Photoshop with drawing tablets. Basic stuff. Doomfest did the classroom background in Blender3D, but that's the only application of 3D modeling in KS so far.

It seems like ya got alot of questions on your hands, everyone is asking my qouestions so im not going to ask any. i just wanted to say that the demo was the greatest story i have ever read!!! and i can't wait for the full version.

anyways i'll let ya get back to answering these questions

-mac

1. no

3(?) 40 000-50 000-ish, maybe.



Yes.

will anything happen with gurl X, who confessed at the beginning of the demo, in the full ver. ?

50 000 hmm... wow? well compared to little buster EX's 3,000,000....... d:

What is your process for writing? Do you write out an outline, then write it out all the way, or do you write a rough draft of a section and come back and revise it?

Iwanako has her own life to live... I wonder if we meet her again...

I doubt LB, as long as it is, has 3mil lines. That would make it have 30 millionish words, in other words as much as reading Lord of the Rings 60 times over. You are probably confusing wordcount and linecount.

Questions slowed for a moment so I had time to dig up my digital copy of Schuppen Harnische. Here are the Armor Girls and Drill Girls concept pages, for the person who asked a question about them on page 1 or 2:

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h**p://hdimage.org/images/an3216dclf8c1ge22l7f_schuppeh72.jpg

hopefully this prevents the pics from getting killed.

So does that mean that the final version will probably have 130,000-140,000 words?

lol, it's true d: LB has 1 million lines. LB EX has 3 million lines XD lol i know, it's lyk: "wow!" XD

A bit more. Act 1 alone has 96000 words. The full version will be closer to half a million, I'd guess.

In most visual novels that include hentai the characters have certain sexual preferences. One girl might be into one type of sex, one girl might be into another. They might have different fetishes or styles.

Is it possible for you tell us what each of the girls preferences are in bed or how they would act in a hentai scene?

Ahh i see, i was hoping that my other question would be answered though, i guess I'd have to wait fir a bit.

Right now, KS is averaging 12.1 words per line, according to the lint report. So this is a massive underestimate.

For KS, which works in "scenes" like a screenplay or movie script would, I usually work in a sort of a layered method. First I sketch the scene in one writethrough and lay out the main elements. Then I fill out the events more and start writing the dialogue, which I write in a more linear manner, to make it more realistic. At this point I often come up with a lot of ideas for specific sentences, jokes, or snippets of dialogue that I write down on another file. After the dialogue exists I start adding the ambience, description and adding the ideas from the other file back to the scene. Then it's just a matter of polishing and revising the text until it's decent enough to add to the game.

It was too late when i noticed that it was lines, not words, sorry about that, though i have to say that my mistake is making my identity obvious right now.

Anything for us yuri fans?

Plenty of people in /u/ were wondering where the picture of the blonde blind girl groping Shizune came from.

Personally, I was kind of hoping that Misha would be the protagonist of her own spinoff to take the girls for herself... using the drill hair to penetrate two girls at once... but it seems like she's really dedicated to Shizune. Wouldn't be a bad bonus scene, don't you think?

Having seen a crudely translated 2ch thread it seems they like the game so far but a few say the title is very offensive. Are you going to stick to the original doujin page and the title given there or will you change it to be more PC?

Are you pleased with the reception and have you received any complaints (and if so could you maybe share the more humorous ones?)

What part of the scripts do you regret having to cut?

Seeing you're the man behind Rin; Why does she wear a boys uniform? Seems a skirt would be less restrictive.

Keep up the good work guys.