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I made credits in P&Y in the traditional fashion of screens appearing with a few names. I split it up into a few sections to make it more organised and added a few reused CG parts or sprites to it to make it more fun to look at. Use as much overlap as possible, for example instead of saying it's...

I certainly hope that those italics work, because that's how I'm doing it in my current project as well. I'd say it's clear as long as it's used consistently. In a previous project of mine, P&Y, I used a different system. The MC's thoughts were in NVL (the text not appearing in the textbox but i...

Hello, I would like to volunteer as a proofreader. I've got some experience doing so and a general feedback on my feedback that I work fast and am critical but fair. Hopefully my feedback, aside from grammar corrections and such, will be the straightforward and scrutinising opinion you'll need to kn...

I think this is more a matter of how much rather than if. Depending on where you put that line, this is already something you can find in a lot of VN. In Katawa Shojo the painter girl puts her painting over you for at least the first half of the story, and plenty of other VN have similar stories. Th...

I personally dislike minigames in VNs if they're anything short of well-executed or in the backround. Especially if the game is meant to be replayed meaning you'd have to go through them again for the other endings. If it's a good minigame or if it's a significant part of the game rather than an add...

Our fairy princess Charlotte now has all her outfits, expressions and additions, so she's all ready for the ball. Isn't she lovely? Unfortunately for her, we're only slowly getting there. We're almost through day 4, the first of her route's three days, though fortunately that's the longest of the da...

I work when I have the time, but in my case that means whenever I'm not busy. I'm not good at bingewatching series nor getting sucked up by games but I absolutely must have something to do with my free time. So whenever I don't have anything to do I work on my project assuming I want to. I don't rea...

1. I like the premise, I can see these more dark themed routes with obsession cutting into subjects like identity and being a role-model. Perhaps it may also give a good metagaming or deconstruction of how the MC in a VN is usually the centre that decides the personality and life of the cast simply ...

For a low-budget or first time project, few people are going to judge you for using CC sprites. They might not call your project outstanding or leave it be, but we know the reality or being a first-time developer. And you just got to wow them with the story instead. You should be aware that 3D model...

It's not the format rather than the execution that matters. With Cinderella Phenomenon for example the choices would've been hellish if you didn't get those hearts to tell you if you chose right, and the forceful choices and sheer abundance did annoy me regardless in a few routes. But stories with t...

I played this a while ago but forgot to leave a review, sorry! I remember that Minion! first appeared a bit low-production to me but quickly showed itself to have a dedicated writer behind it. As a writer, I know how difficult it must've been to remain motivated to come up and write that much seemin...

Large projects you make alone or with a few others working for free is certainly possible, I've done both. My first project P&Y was over 100000 words and made completely alone during my free time in 1,5 years, though the artwork looks rather terrible because I made it myself without experience i...

I watched the video and while he does argue, visualise and support his arguments, there are some big glaring issues in his argumentation. (Sorry about the huge wall of text!) The first and most obvious one is that he compares visual novels and other games to D&D (and similar roleplay games). Yes...

I'd say Medieval, considering the ancient shrines and Eldrich monsters. In the modern era it becomes more difficult to just say that there are various ancient places completely deserted and not excavated, with great monsters roaming around. At least one would be cleaned out and turned into a tourist...

When you have a very detailed character; good. When you run into this kind of problems because of it, you've made a character too detailed though. And when that becomes the case, don't try to force it after all. I too like making characters that are more detailed than they have to be, with details a...