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- Sun May 02, 2010 9:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Game genre of VN games - ???
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2131
Re: Game genre of VN games - ???
Perhaps because VN doesn't have any gameplay? Oh but clicking through dialog trees is gameplay! Of sorts ;) I know people who got interested in VNs through Bioware RPGs, so I'm kind of being serious. They did not enjoy the combat and/or the RPG elements (to be honest, Mass Effect 2 doesn't have muc...
- Sun May 02, 2010 9:44 pm
- Forum: Ideas
- Topic: [NaNoRenO] [WIP] Amesirun
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2301
Re: [NaNoRenO] [WIP] Amesirun
April was quite hectic for me, but I still managed to work on the game (not as much as I'd have liked though ^^;), here's another small teaser. As I'm saying there, the game is close to completion, I've added some features not originally planned to compensate a bit for the delay.
- Sun May 02, 2010 9:38 pm
- Forum: Anime, Games, and Japan
- Topic: Nightlinker's Video Game Rant.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1713
Re: Nightlinker's Video Game Rant.
I tend to agree with Jake on this... Also, where I'm from (Hungary), for a long time - before widespread internet connections - games were relatively hard to get, so this already filtered out the bad games in more than one sense. The ones I got to play as a kid were already the cream of the crop, si...
- Sun May 02, 2010 9:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Computer pet peeves
- Replies: 40
- Views: 3838
Re: Computer pet peeves
What I really really hate is when a piece of software (including the OS) doesn't want to tell me what went wrong. I understand most users hate seeing complicated error messages and logs and suchlike, so I'm ok with these being hidden by default... but when I cannot even get them to display , or have...
- Sun May 02, 2010 8:38 pm
- Forum: Skill Development
- Topic: First person writing
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3603
Re: First person writing
Not necessarily relevant to VNs in particular, but I like Samuel Delany's advice that you should only write in first person when your character has an interesting voice.
- Sun Mar 28, 2010 1:53 pm
- Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
- Topic: Much ado about Backgrounds
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1110
Re: Much ado about Backgrounds
FYI here is the actual NASA image license. (It's quite permissive.)
- Sun Mar 28, 2010 1:50 pm
- Forum: Ideas
- Topic: Sprites....
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7658
Re: Sprites....
Expressions.. only do as many as you need. The World Ends with You RPG on the DS only had 4 expressions for each character. I don't think so... (are you sure you're talking about the right game?) Here are sprite rips: http://sdb.drshnaps.com/objects/2/87/Sprite/MugshotsNeku-ItsAWonderfulWorld.gif h...
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:43 pm
- Forum: Ideas
- Topic: Yesoidos [WIP; Kabbalah, Jewish, psychological]
- Replies: 47
- Views: 16632
Re: WIP: The Foundation of the World
Ugh, I'm sorry, the past week has been crazy. Every year I start Pesach preparations well in advance. And every year this happens! I mostly finished my preparations, but I haven't had time to log in to the forums and post replies. OK. Was Yiddish a common language around those times? This depends on...
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:20 pm
- Forum: Ideas
- Topic: [NaNoRenO] [WIP] Amesirun
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2301
Re: [NaNoRenO] [WIP] Amesirun
Thank you everyone for your kind replies!!! I unfortunately have to say that I will not be able to make the deadline unless something unexpected happens... I ran out of time with work and (especially) Pesach preparations at hand. The game is about two-thirds finished, but I haven't touched it in mor...
- Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:51 pm
- Forum: Ideas
- Topic: Yesoidos [WIP; Kabbalah, Jewish, psychological]
- Replies: 47
- Views: 16632
Re: WIP: The Foundation of the World
Oh, yes! During which few decades was there a big migration to America? Hard to say, because in many cases the ethnicity of Hungarians was not recorded in detail. Still, I found data on a wave of Jewish migration starting from the 1880s lasting halfway through the 1910s. Then another one starting f...
- Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:12 pm
- Forum: Creator Discussion
- Topic: List software you use here
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5815
Re: List software you use here
Most of what I use has already been mentioned save for this one... I use ArtRage for sketching, it has a free demo but I bought the full version after trying the demo. It's available for Windows and Macs, but 2.5 runs under Linux using Wine very smoothly. I haven't tried getting 3.0 to work under Li...
- Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:04 pm
- Forum: Skill Development
- Topic: Any general suggestion for a first time VN writer?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 5444
Re: Any general suggestion for a first time VN writer?
And it won't protect you against problems like the US legal system's apparent encouragement of frivolous lawsuits This is what I'm talking about. (Not only in the US FWIW, I'd say there is a trend toward this in the entire Western world.) Copyright is a mechanism put in place to prevent people unfa...
- Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:40 pm
- Forum: Skill Development
- Topic: Any general suggestion for a first time VN writer?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 5444
Re: Any general suggestion for a first time VN writer?
I think we simply come to this from different perspectives. If you are selling stories, then you need to make sure you don't infringe on anyone's copyrights, or risk a legal procedure. (Hopefully your editor will notice. But s/he might not. Or you might not have an editor, for example, if you make a...
- Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:49 pm
- Forum: Skill Development
- Topic: Any general suggestion for a first time VN writer?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 5444
Re: Any general suggestion for a first time VN writer?
Don't hide from all forms of media, but going out of your way to find examples of works which are thematically, stylistically or superficially similar to yours is just going to make you more paranoid about your work being similar to other people's I don't think a quick check on TVtropes would make ...
- Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:24 pm
- Forum: Skill Development
- Topic: Any general suggestion for a first time VN writer?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 5444
Re: Any general suggestion for a first time VN writer?
just don't blatantly rip anything off and there's no reason to be concerned by it. For the record, I have been accused of blatantly ripping off a novel I've never even read (in a published short story). So it's better to make sure IMO. If you're not attempting to sell anything, it might not be as i...