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To succeed, a platform needs three things - in the word of Steve Ballmer, "developers, developers, developers". You've seen how bad an app store can be - I saw the post on Hacker News. Why are you still playing ball with them? First, because they were willing to concede the app as origina...

Have now received all the voice files from the VAs (including a cameo gentleman for the "Officer"). Have edited most of them, and are adding to the game. Am hoping to have the RenPy version done early next week. Not sure if I will release immediately, however, as I finally got some folks f...

So, just to make it clear, would this be used as a tool for creators or as part of a game, like a story generator? There would need to be a bit of each. For the creator, you would need to have the ability to "train" the network, and then specify which things it could (or couldn't) touch i...

Not sure you would even save that much if you stopped after episode 1. Unless you were going to introduce a number of new characters and scenes in each episode, you would have already spent the lion's share of your money on episode 1. I don't see how stopping after that could do anything but hurt yo...

Not so much generating a full VN as building on a scaffolding. I know there are systems that have "written" articles and short stories, and so my thought was that if I build a "pattern" it would be possible to extend that using rules that were setup. I gather that your preference...

Imagine, if you will, a RenPy VN where the game starts by interviewing the player for a couple of minutes, and then uses a Neural Network to find the "personalities" that you would find most interesting to interact with. It then matches these to pre-defined art you have shipped with the ga...

What I meant is, I presume folks are going to play each chapter as they come out. And I presume I am going to want to save some stats between chapters. Of course I am also going to want to give the player an ability to save their position in a chapter. So perhaps they play through episode 3, and the...

Do as you want, I don't see any problem about that, it would be like buying a manga... Oh, I have no personal thought of doing one of these as I would drive myself, and other team members, crazy trying to meet the deadlines. Only way I could see doing it would be to have the whole thing complete, a...

Was interested to see this Dischan announcement this morning: https://dischan.org/devblog/2013/01/dysfunctional-systems-announcement/ Basically looks like they are doing an episodic/serial VN and charging $5/installment. From a purely commercial standpoint I would think they would do better to make ...

I think another consideration though, if you do view the VN like a book, is are you willing to lose your reader halfway through because it gets too hard/boring, etc. To take a literary example, if your VN was like Ulysses, maybe it would make sense to let them follow one character all around for a f...

Have just gotten the final script out to the VAs, and so can now get some heads down coding while I wait for them to get their vocal files to me. Fortunately the distance between script and game is a lot shorter with RenPy than with Javascript. Looks like we are still on track for the Desktop versio...

I'm targetting HTML5 because, in my opinion, is the best choice for a VN or similar games. Are you talking about adding support for Android and iOS in the editor? For now i have no plans in doing so, since Android and iOS are usually run in small devices, which are not good for editing. No, what I'...

This all sounds interesting, and a complete IDE VN maker would be nice, but just curious why you are targeting HTML 5? Are you thinking of integrating this with PhoneGap/Cordoba to support iOS and Android? Or... ? After my recent experience with the Windows Store, I have to say I'm a little less HTM...

Latest from MS is that I have a screenshot for the game that the tester didn't see in the game. The reason is because they only played through the first choice on Linda's first question. I had said to play through all three choices, and they documented that they went to the Main Menu and did all thr...

Still waiting to hear the latest from MS. In the meantime am working on the RenPy version, which means resizing everything to fit the "best" resolution rather than doing scaling or multiple resolutions of each image. My understanding is that if I do this right it should look fine for most ...