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Music AND sound missing would definitely be a breaker and make me simply think that the game is broken. But leaving one of the two out is actually fine, I'd say. No sound in a VN or KN can work, after all I also don't have sound effects when reading a book. No music is a bit more tricky, but I'd say...

To interact over visual novels. Not just browsing around. Though some are difficult to "judge". I myself am not interested in a few things and when the title is properly tagged (and in my opinion, all should be to raise interest), the tags will determine whether or not I look into it. I m...

So the reason so many WiPs don't get finish and die out is because they showed it too soon. I mean sure if you account for every WiP of everything everyone is making that they aren't talking about or you don't know about I'd say its safe to say that 90% of all of those things wont get completed. An...

A bit of code has already been done, but I'm still busy planning out the storyline for the different paths and some basic gameplay features. I am also currently concepting on the design of the main cast, clothes, hairstyle and minor features may change later, but I got at least the basic look for ea...

A bad ending could also be something that is based on personal opinion. Breath of Fire 4 is often said to have a good and a bad ending. I played both as well as read the manga and have to say, for ME, both endings are legit (one is more dramatic and disappointing, but in no way bad, as the other is ...

I hadn't realized beforehand that we were dealing with characters who weren't human, so that was an interesting but pleasant surprise. Haha, putting a screen of Johnson into the first post did apparently still catch some off-guard, but I am glad you liked it ^_^ What did Johnson do that made the pi...

Such a adorable little story! Simple, but very effective. And man, the Neutral ending actually hit me a lot harder than the bad one. Your art and writing was good and the music choices appropiate. And regarding your question: I was actually not SURE before I went for the bad ending (my first ending ...

Howls Moving Castle. It is SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE MOVIE! I'm not even sarcastic, I loved the Ghibli movie, but the book had me captured and I teared through it in two days. And my last book was "Timing for Animation" and "The Ten Old Men" (a book about the work of the nine famou...

Is this even still an idea or already a WIP?
I mean, it looks so far already (plus, I'd like to see this finished)

I think, one of the issues is the dominance of manga/anime in the VN scene. If you look games (specifically indie games) at western cons, they rarely have animesque style. And if they have, they also often have a lot of cartoon elements. There is also the thing that a lot of VNs are mainly Dating Si...

What often helps me is music. Soundtracks to be specific. Doesn't matter, if movies, games, TV series. When I listen to it, I usually sooner or later just start imagining my own things over it (if I have a remix or listen to a soundtrack of something I've never seen/played, it also often works very ...

Well, it is in general very easy. If you have your own custom menu anyway, just make a imagemap for each new menu point and when clicking "Memory", you jump to "label memory:" where the extra story part is located. If you use the menu that comes with the game, you of course need ...

Ristorante Amore.
I really just love that games premise with the prologue and post-prologue.

I had done that with my "Cards of Destiny" project. I had simply jumped in and made the game, including a complicated fighting system with cards, eight romance options, fourteen endings (or something), 27 Backgrounds, about 116 character pose images and about 60 CGs. BUT I had no "suc...

In theory, all ways of writing are legit. First person may make the player emphasize stronger with the main character since they can literally look into their thoughts and feelings. It feels more private, thus the emotional issues of the MC often resulting in a bigger impact on the player since they...