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itch.io actually does have a star rating system, but I rarely remember to use it, and I would guess a lot of others don't remember to either. I've only used itch since I'm very very much a hobbyist dev and not looking to make a whole lot of money or anything. My first game, The Dark , has 615 views...

And which have been the most succesful? We haven't exactly set the world alight yet, but I thought I'd share the statistics for our first free browser game: Witches and Bandits and Swords (Oh My) Kongregate Plays 3,037, Reviews 10 (9 positive, 1 negative), 10 followers, Rating 2.95/5 Newgrounds Play...

Yeah, I like itch. It has a good community feel to it, but it's very difficult to get attention (compared to Kong or Newgrounds) if you're not an established dev.

If your visual novel includes nonbinary characters, Queerly Represent Me has a list of over 200 translators offering help with translating VNs. Sadly, mine doesn't, and since all my characters are at least a little bit mental, they'd probably be happier if I didn't have any non-binary characters! M...

If your visual novel includes nonbinary characters, Queerly Represent Me has a list of over 200 translators offering help with translating VNs. Sadly, mine doesn't, and since all my characters are at least a little bit mental, they'd probably be happier if I didn't have any non-binary characters!

I just wondered if any devs had experience of translating an English language game to another language and how you found the process? Who translated it for you? Was it worthwhile? Where did you publish it? Also, for people whose first language isn't English, what VN gamesites would you recommend tha...

https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzI0NzcxNTAuZ2lm/original/lNuOno.gif Updated 8th September (last update was January) with release date gif and oodles and oodles of progress. The game is so close, I can practically taste it! https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzE3OTI1NzYucG5n/original/xiaFjH.png https://img.itch.z...

Update:

The game is now available free for mobile in the Google Play Store!

I stream story heavy games, which also includes Visual Novels. I normally stream from my Mac on Thursdays (which is where the visual novels are most likely to show up), and Saturdays from my PS4. I’m not streaming this week because I’m at a conference but I’ll be back next week. I’m currently playi...

Does anyone know if there are any Twitch streamers or Youtubers who are mainly interested in VNs? I ask partly because I'm often very lazy and sometimes like to lie back and treat games like movies (I watched Vinny Vinesauce's stream of SIlent Hill 2 recently, as i was getting nowehere with the game...

I'm in pretty much the same boat as you and have given this a hell of a lot of thought- see this thread as proof(!) What @trooper6 says makes a lot of sense. Giving your artist a short term project to prove themselves and find out how well you work together is a good idea before moving on to a big p...

...in other words, anything that condenses your story into a quickly readable paragraph or two in order to summarise and hopefully entice people to play your game. This is such as important part of writing and I've never been too good at it, so I've tried to start early for our next game- even befor...

Lemmasoft has a lot of options under the creative commons license. Some are only for free stuff, true, but there are a few that will allow commercial. This would probably be my first option. After that, 100-200 pounds seems really low, even with revenue sharing. (If I was trying to earn a living wa...

To each their own, I suppose. I just don't want to end up having to make something up on the spot when I'm finally writing the VN script itself if I ever encounter a scene that needs more from the world setting than what I already have. I feel that having a polished world would help me dictate the ...

I agree with Mammon that you should be thinking of your world and characters at the same time, but I'd suggest very slightly prioritising characters, and asking questions of them which can be answered in the world What is the character's personality? How is this reflected in the world? The character...