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Now "TV has peaked"? I'm sorry, but I feel that's a very shallow mindset. It may well be that you're seeing a pattern of stagnation in TV or any other medium, but to write anything off fully would be a mistake, in my view. You can't account for what progress might be made in the future, what new tr...

You go ahead and do that. I never said one group can't break the mold. Problem is, one group is not even one group. Just one product. For example, I feel Elevator did more things than Cinders at bringing a unique Western taste to VNs but it's hard to see anyone talk about it except for liking the en...

I don't really understand the context of the KS post. I guess that's for someone else but if it's for me, I don't know the particular sentence that gave that reaction. Plus as someone previously stated, KS has a different culture and point of reception in Japan than in the English community. I also...

Thank you for pulling back. I think a bit of the thread topic has been lost because what at first seemed like a warning of the influence of KS became about KS. I don't know if you pulled back because we have similar criticisms with the current direction but thank you nonetheless. Nope. Sorry to say ...

I'm not sure I quite follow you, but are you saying that in the past OELVNs, although of a lesser quality and sometimes unfinished, were more diverse and interesting? And that the current crop strives too hard to be polished and similar to the most popular VNs? Or are you saying that whilst many di...

The answer is yes but disagree with the links mentioned. There's a difference between "defining romance and using that to write a novel" and "lacking understanding romance and using that to write a novel without understanding it at all, not even by being given a definition." Keyword is that: Romance...

Oh, okay, you're talking about changes in the OELVN community . That's kind of a huge difference with what your post title suggests, which is about OELVN development, no? Not really. The OELVN community IS the OELVN producers. If you look at my original post it was much straight forward. There's a ...

NVList uses Lua for scripting, ChoiceScript looks -very- similar to VNDS in terms of complexity and functionality. Yeah, I'm not surprised that I messed up the technical analogy since I don't know the technical terms. RenPy also has a version that is Lua based. I didn't really mean the specific lan...

Sorry for double posting but it's starting to get too long and just so no one accuses me of not trying to make my point succinct, I'm going to use an external unrelated to VN template taken from here: http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-were-here.html Highest Rankings by Category: Game World:...

wow, I didn't know any of these discussion about Christine Love, Winterwolves, etc... where can I read all of this? ... . the only VN forum I know is this forum .__. This is I think the poster site for all the Christine Love entry and Katawa Shoujo: (the comments, not the article) http://www.rockpa...

It depends on what is being innovated and how. Quality focus can also be innovative. Fun focus can also be innovative. IMO the big question then is how much of that innovation is part beta/part polished. Then in the prototype stage, quality is better because less quality can mean more bugs or more u...

Do disgusting games count as horror? There is one bad ending in Discipline: Record of the Crusade that made me feel this way. It helped that I was played it blind and did not even know what type of H-genre VN I was playing so all the twist and thumps caught me off guard. When I unlocked it, I felt s...

Creative cheat code = great. Generic cheat code for VN = meh. Creative cheat code always looks good for any game because it seems like the creator took into account the design behind the gamer who wants to cheat, and not just the gamer who wants a kinetic novel option. They don't always pay off but ...

Sucks to see this after years have passed and still not a completed VN on my part. Sorry guys.

(Sorry if my minimal lurking led to this wrong historical impression but I see little evidence that this isn't the case.) Early RenPy days: Small community but many works were praised. Bad art but good design choices for such games were praised. Any highly recommended game was often incomplete/short...