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There's something super charming about the art, I really like it! Looking forward to seeing progress

It was incredibly meta that the class the MC was studying for was in fact the EXACT same class I was neglecting in order to play the game, yet somehow I suspect that isn't a universal experience haha. I recognized your art style from one of your previous games instantly, which I always think is a co...

In general, I actually try to use things I learned from my schooling to help manage my work on games. Doing some research on project management can be really useful in my experience! Recently I've been setting two week goals for my VN, since having both clear goals and also a definite deadline can h...

Similarly, I've been debating recently about the difference between 'voice acted' and 'narrated'. One of the main characters in my current project is blind, so I've been thinking a lot about accessibility. I know Ren'py has an easy way for readers to automatically have the screen reader read it (whi...

Hmm yeah, I think you're getting closer. I feel like I'd maybe try to match the width of the face lines with the width of the hair lines or play around with the line color. The chunky cheek line's an interesting direction, but I feel like compared to the wispy grey hair lines it stands out in a way ...

My first (visual novel-y game) was successful for a weekend gamejam game I think. I've made exactly $2 off of it since I just asked for donations, and it has about 7000 views (it's playable in browser so tracking plays specifically is a little harder). Overall it seemed that people liked it, I think...

Any artist who doesn't draw like this, will have a hard time editing mistakes or changing things after the drawing is completed. Use of layers is highly important, in my opinion and most artists should already be drawing like this. Layers are important, but layers for animation are different than l...

Looking at your examples, I think that maybe something that would help would be to think about contrast. When you're working on shading, occasionally check how the illustration looks in greyscale. Notice how dark the shading on her hair is compared to the shading on her face, which makes it stand ou...

I'm a fan of most of the big murder mystery games (Ace Attorney, Dangan Ronpa, Umineko, etc), but weirdly I think that the game that really captures that 'aha', detective-y, feeling most for me is actually something more like Scribblenauts. It's not a visual novel, but it does a very good job of nav...

I think that your concept is good, but your synopsis may benefit a bit from thinking about what tone your novel would have. Sort of like Mutive said, finding a way to incorporate the MC's personality may help the reader know what they're in for (you tell us that she's fiery, but it's always good to ...

It definitely has to do with your ability to advertise yourself. Do you already have a decent following? If not, then maybe hold off on the Kickstarter. It's not exactly the same, but if you want to test the waters you could always try out Patreon and see if that works for you. It seems like a good ...