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Ah, I guess I was more worried about the 'good ending being shorter than some of the bad endings' part than the flag part. Because all of the VNs I know about seem to have the best ending be the 'final' ending (like Steins;Gate), and when the game ends 'prematurely', it's always a bad ending (or at ...

Yes, it is. :( (Nah, it's just kids these days use Discord, so the forums are dying off :'D Sadly I can't adapt to Discord because the prospect of my comments being lost in time to the ether fills me with existential dread, sapping all my motivation to post. whereas my posts on forums feel like the...

So I've been writing a VN, but there are a few bad endings that take place chronologically later than the good ending. Like, you hit the scene where the good ending is supposed to take place, but if you don't have the right flags, the game continues and proceeds to a bad ending appropriate for your ...

Not technically a visual novel, but Trails in the Sky has dialogue boxes and no voice acting, and they had the singing segment play automatically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_U72JIjGpg&t=658s I think it worked well, though the song is like 75 seconds long -- much longer than that, and I im...

I've never been able to make comics or anything similar (I'm awful with paneling) so visual novels seemed like a nice way for me to convey my stories to a wider audience. Additionally, visual novels (some other types of games as well of course) offer that opportunity to explore different endings, t...

As a player/reader, I don't think VNs really compete with other games (rouge likes, FPS, MMOs, top downs, etc.) for my attention. They satisfy completely different desires for me. Forget apples to oranges, it's like asking 'what about apples makes it more inviting than ramen?" Answer; they're n...

1. Is being able to customize the MC the extra push that makes you play a vn? If it's customization that interacts with the story in ridiculously robust ways a la the Developer's Foresight trope, I think that's incredibly rad and would convince me to play the game, yes. But that's pretty hard to im...