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So, something I've been wondering about... If one were working on a Ren'Py game and wanted to beta test it, where would the better place to do that be? Lemmasoft, or 4chan? I'll be honest - I've never used 4chan. All I've heard are the equivalent of myths and rumors. And my impression based on those...

Hmm. I've actually given some thought to this very issue, and I have two theories on how to do this without the ridiculous redundancy you speak of. First - create chibi versions of the characters and use them for the head shots next to the dialog. At least they'll look different than the main sprite...

Text can be interesting the first time it is encountered, but rapidly becomes less interesting as it is repeatedly encountered. Text can be skipped, but this takes the reader out of the flow of the story. For this reason, VNs should make full completion as easy and painless as possible. In other wo...

Well, it may be that we just don't notice how many of our own stories are set in our setting as it is. All of our television shows are almost exclusively set in our own country. Ah. That's true. Although, I was referring more towards manga/anime/VN materials. I could cite any number of manga set in...

I doubt I'll ever attempt to make a story that takes place in my country Dx It's the dreaded oh-it's-so-lame-because-it-takes-place-here feeling that is pretty widespread across my country xD It's odd, but I have a similar sentiment about setting a story in the U.S. I actually think it likely stems...

JinzouTamashii wrote:That "moe" creation was hideous, わはは.

Oh, the, uh...slickly, alien, ghost, kitsune, maid, reincarnated childhood friend character?

If by coincidence you mean that the love interest of the protagonist somehow gets a job at his favorite bakery that he goes to every day or that the protagonist forgets his notebook at school and his love interest is, for one reason or another, is by herself at a bus stop conveniently located en-ro...

Something I find myself growing increasingly intolerant of these days are coincidences in stories. I didn't think much of them until giving some thought to the structure of VNs. Unlike other formats, VNs tend to follow the daily exploits of the protagonist. So there's usually very little opportunity...

And I think once some of the authors get the Japanese high school setting and characters with Japanese names out of their system, we'll start seeing less of what we're used to and may be surprised with what they come up with. :lol: Oh that made me laugh so hard - because I suspect the very same thi...

Is the anime styling still considered exclusively Japanese though? That's exactly the right question to ask. I apologize, as this is going off a bit on a tangent, but I've always espoused the idea that "anime style" - which encompasses not only the artwork, but the character archetypes, s...

Then, it seems your primary gripe with FSN is is repetition and not necessarily with its lore. Well, I suppose that is accurate. I just don't have very many VNs under my belt to use as examples. Hmm. Okay, this is still a stretch, but I suppose I could use Kagetsu Tohya as an example. Each time you...

If no reason like those are present, I'm very likely to twitch and walk away. :lol: Yeah, I can easily relate. Setting stories in our country was avoided too. It was like setting stories over here and having fellow countrymates as characters would be instant-lameness, haha. Well, I can understand t...

In a fictional setting, when can worldbuilding become overwhelming or unnecessary? Hmm. That is an interesting question. I suppose if you hold up Tolkien as a benchmark, there's pretty much no limit to the amount of world building that you can do, as evidenced by the Silmarillion. Basically, years ...

Jake wrote:Or to sum it up succinctly: It's not "write what you know", but "write what you can bullshit". :3

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Yes. That'll do nicely.

"Write what you know" is for cowards. Writing is a creative act. Use your imagination! Nobody wants to hear about your boring life anyway. "Write what you know" means just that. It doesn't mean "write what you've experienced". If that were the case, we wouldn't have st...