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Start with anatomy. It's easier to develop a style after you've got the basic structure of a body nailed down.

I started writing a novel several years ago, I didn't really understand all the nuances and prerequisites that it entailed, but I figured I had a story, a fair grasp of grammar, and every computer these days can spell check so I started typing. I worked on and off for 3 years before anyone saw a sin...

If you knew of a local/unsigned performer that produced songs of the type you wanted then you might be able to contact them and come to some sort of cross-promotional deal, but yeah if it's just an artist that you have no access to you'll hear from their lawyers before you hear from anyone.

While some people can be purists about their VNs, I think anyone with an open enough mind about the graphics would still give it a shot if the sprites looked like these (then again I play a lot of regular console games where the quality can vary greatly). Perhaps you might have to play with the shad...

Papillon is right, expense is a big issue. The few times I went to Otakon it was fun meeting people and I didn't mind missing out on certain aspects of the con if it meant potentially making back my expenses, but if the tables are super costly on top of the production costs making it very stressful ...

I think a lot of games simply do it because that's been the most common way of doing it. The medium shot, for the most part, seems like the easiest way to show a majority of the character at a high detail level without breaking the illusion that they're standing in the place that the background repr...

Parody is acceptable use, but the definition of parody can be a sticky situation if someone doesn't agree with your interpretation. Japan is a bit less litigation happy than creators/owners in the US so that's why you see such an open Doujin community there (they see it more as free advertising alth...

While I haven't sold any VNs at cons, I have been to quite a few in my time selling art and comics. These days though I find it hard to compete, a lot of people think digital distribution is the future and seem all to happy to download things online (at least in the U.S., getting a person to buy a d...

...O_O I can see it now! Asura's Wrath: the visual novel! Well not exactly but I have always wondered if I could add a little action to a standard VN by adding timed choices that result in bad outcomes if you dont react in time rather than just choosing the wrong option. Sort of like Dragon's Lair, ...

It actually does seem like a useful device and will probably help me quite a bit as I attempt to practice, thanks!

After reading the link that Obsura posted I was reminded of an article a comic book writer wrote about a decade.. wait.. a couple of decades ago (oh crap, I'm getting old!) about how he went about creating the setting of a comic I enjoyed reading. It was something that always stuck with me years lat...

You can add one more to the list of people that think this looks awesome, I'm sure there will be many more.

The character summary was a fun read!

I'm still very new to VN writing myself but in a situation where you have characters and no story my first effort is to define what their setting is first. Once I know what type of world they live in (usually something that fits the tone and style of the characters as well because you wouldnt want t...

Can you attach conditions to the images you display depending on whether you're using windowed mode? It seems to me if any options could be connected to features you manipulate in the options that maybe it might be possible, I personally don't know enough about the engine yet to know if that's possi...