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1. Do you need a love story in a game in order to enjoy it? If the game is focused around the interaction between a cute guy and girl, I desperately need romance. But no, not every VN is a romance story. And that's cool, but make sure you don't set me up for it or I'll cry. 2. If you are playing a ...

Ah, that's true too, though. In reality I've gone out of my way to not talk publicly about my project for that same reason.

Hahaha. I literally just alt tabbed out of Majikoi, which is exclusively trivial choices. Trivial choices are fine, right? It gives the player a moment to have some interaction with the game. When I presented my project to my friends who all never played VN's before, they said they wanted to have mo...

I was wondering about payment of beta testers myself... so for a noncommercial project it's OK etiquette to ask for free testers? I'd say for commercial project you can also get free testers, depending on the stage of completion. To me personally, it seems backwards to pay someone to merely play yo...

It's true that ideas aren't worth much. But what you should take from that is that you don't have to be afraid to share them. Like Gambit said, even though you set out to make something with the same idea, it's very likely you'll create a different work entirely. When you want to share your idea, do...

I have the same issue with my branching game. I'd like to give you an easy answer but I don't think there is one. I gave these characters some serious exposition, while making sure not to neglect the older ones. They don't need as much attention anymore as they're well introduced by this point, so I...

Seconding Darkmoonfire. Vacation is tightly bound to positive emotions, so it doesn't fit the intriguing plot.

I adore it. In Tales of Symphonia, I thought I was finished when I opened all the seals. Only to have my expectations slashed and what I thought was a simple fantasy game was suddenly and completely unexpectedly a deep and philosophical tale of war. For the longest time I called this my favorite gam...

I'll risk looking stupid and say I have no idea what you're talking about. But what I think I understand is that you want to introduce a sense of "gameplay" into your VN. And you're asking how much? If I'm wrong, disregard this post. If not, I have some insights... There are a few good exa...

Taking to heart what Kailoto said before me, I like the idea of the same characters in different universes. If there's reason enough to read the novel and play the VN, I don't think it has to be a bad thing to already know the character's secrets when doing the other. If it's done well, I think I co...

I'm surprised no one has really emphasize this yet, but you can recruit testers here on the LSF forums. There are explicit places to do so. Haha, that's what I was thinking of doing when I said that. This website is amazing. With so many skilled, helpful people, it's no wonder I want to stick aroun...

I see... Looks like I've had some serious misconceptions on how testing works... Yeah, logging it myself sounds like a much better idea. I'll definitely do that. See if I can get my wife to run through it with me. Thanks. Sadly, though. I don't have any writer friends. Not even any friends that play...

My project is nearing beta release soon. With some finished but mostly unfinished sprite and only the common branch finished. I was going to ask my friends to test it for, and have them tell me where I made minor errors. But when I did this previously with an even less finished version, I was disapp...

I do open Editra through Ren'Py, what might I be doing wrong? Huh. That was it for me. Don't know what to tell you. I tried looking into the difference in the version I might be having, but it's a mystery to me. I can tell you not to bother looking into pyenchant (Enchant Path). It's not the same. ...

ETA: I just checked out Editra's preferences and came up with a wrinkle. When I follow: Editra > Preferences > General > Files, I see the Check Spelling while typing box, but it is greyed out and I can't click on it. What is available for me to do in that section is to click on a browse button that...