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However, the bigger problem to me is the lack of incredible and diverse ideas in play. Rarely do I come across stories in unique or untested settings. 90% of all vns, frankly probably more than that, are set in high school or college. Most of them deal with romantic love and focus on winning over r...

1. Do you need a love story in a game in order to enjoy it? No. Some of my favorite stories have nothing to do with love. If it brings something important to the story, then by all means, include it. But if it exists purely for the sake of existing, it will detract from the experience. 2. If you ar...

Trivial choices. Do you like them? Dislike them? When would you implement them in your own work, if at all? For the sake of the discussion, trivial choices are defined as instances in a visual novel where the game presents you with a choice, yet the choice has no impact on the overall story. They ar...

As Kuroonehalf said, if it's just ideas, there's not much to do about it. If you want feedback on the formative process of your story, like from a fellow writer to evaluate your story and find areas to improve, then you'll just have to try again. It can help if you're friends with the person outside...

I think the point is that for the most part, people need to have more confidence in the value of their work. LSF (and many other communities frequented by amateurs) has an atmosphere of humbleness. Many people are naturally timid, and are afraid of sticking out or being ridiculed for high prices, so...

-snip- Yeah, Nisekoi played up the romance much further. Which was a shame, because Naoshi Komi has such great pacing that the suspenseful parts really knocked it out of the park. That might also have lead to his downfall, though, because continual suspense with no payoff tires the reader out. I re...

But these are only the good examples. Kailoto mentioned Nisekoi and Nozaki-kun, I actually had the exact same experience with these. Except I only watched the anime. And I got super mad in Nozaki-kun at the fireworks scene. Sure it was funny, but god damn you really had my heart beating! That's som...

I view BL the same way I view yandere - a mixture of fascination and fear. (Coincidentally, I happen to love yandere.) Unfortunately I'm a straight male, so I'm probably not your target demographic, but if you ever want another take or, I don't know, moral support, I'm always willing to listen!

I concur with what trooper6 expressed, and posit that it's the fault of the one doing the commissioning. Strangely, I find that writer-led projects tend to have unreasonably high expectations of art, while artist-led projects tend to have unreasonably low expectations of writing. I hypothesize that ...

Like Kuiper mentioned, it really depends on whether or not I want to see "more" of the story. Also relevant is whether or not the story is evolving; are we entering a new chapter where the stakes are higher and the rules are different, or is it going to be more of the same? Because with th...

Splatoon? I'm in love with it. A quirky, fashionable and most of all fun shooter, though I wouldn't say it's not competitive. The Ranked Battles (especially Tower Defense) can get pretty hardcore if even one of your teammembers doesn't know what they're doing - and you get no points for losing. Oh ...

Thanks. It's actually a program meant to visualize git repositories - who is working on what file in a program. What I did was to convert each forum into a directory, and each thread into a file, and then let it loose. That is quite the ingenious use of the program! I never would have thought of th...

I'm a Patreon for only three people. I have a small budget, so the most I give is $1 per month. I don't do it for exclusive content or to be closer to the creator - I do it because I really, really like what these people are doing, and I want to give them something back as a show of appreciation. In...

Glad you like it :) Posts per day would be interesting. I didn't pass high school maths, so I'll have to look up how to work out the local maximum when I get to that part! Oh, you don't need to calculate it; just take the data and graph it, with posts per day on the x-axis and number of people on t...

This is really cool! Like trooper6 I'd be interested in the age distribution, and I'd also like to throw in posts per day for your consideration. I'm interested in what the local maximum would be (I'm assuming the absolute maximum would be zero, due to all the unused accounts), since that's a little...