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Oh, wow! Almost missed the Kickstarter. I caught it just in time. Pledged.

Papillon, you always make great games. Happy to contribute.

Well - Lemmasoft isn't the be-all-end-all of English language visual novels any more like it once was. And that's a good thing. Visual Novels are everywhere now. We've made it to mainstream! :wink: I remember lurking on the forums back when it was BlueLemma using it for discussions of his games. You...

Great points already made by Papillon and Kuiper, but I'd also add that just continuously talking about your games as a "VN" or Visual Novel carries certain connotations. Marketing is all about impressions and reaching the intended audience. If the majority of players attach certain expect...

Nice logo and a cool idea. Can't wait to see what you do with the meta-concept.

Unfortunately, they do clash. It's not terrible - but it is kind of distracting. From the style of your sprites and their flat shading, plus color drop shadow outlines - not to mention your text box design, it seems you are wanting to go for a more stylized clean style. The painted backgrounds are a...

Personally, I think you should at least write your first draft before trying to come up with a name. I've got to agree. You won't know the true themes of your story until you've completed at least one draft of it first. Plus, I think that too often things like this - thinking up the perfect name fo...

Well, how realistic is it to show a crowd of people that never moves or changes, whether it is day or night or two weeks later? Empty background locations are often used for their versatility. They can be used for scenes when the characters are alone, or at different times of day, without having to ...

This is perhaps because JVNs are typically far longer than EVNs, so might be worth the time of writing a review. In my completely non-scientifically-studied opinion, JVNs get a huge amount of 'hype' reviews, people leaving a positive review immediately when the game comes out without even having pl...

I don't know what kind of game is but to get few thousand on Patreon you need to have worked a lot! I am not even at $1k with mine and I've been making games for 10 years... :lol:). In regards to what makes the game popular? In all honestly, it's probably not the writing. But my goal is of course t...

Most writing gigs are based on a certain amount per word. Articles on websites, submissions to magazines, etc. work this way. Playboy was pretty famous in the writing community back in the day - late 80s, early 90s - for paying way more than other magazines. They were harder to get published in, but...

I guess if you had to pick ONE, I would go all in with the sound design or keep it mostly silent. I will say that good sound design can be an immense improvement for a visual novel. I played two visual novels that were very similar in terms of writing and art, but one of them had excellent sound des...

However, even they are not "crack-proof". Nothing is, to date. ... Focus on making material worth getting, instead of attempting to control the uncontrollable and limiting who can gain from your creations. This. Not even billion-dollar game studios can keep people from cracking their game...

If you participate in such a competition you are only rewarding this type of behavior and you are cheapening your skills and disrespecting yourself. Please try to discourage such competitions, they can really undermine creatives. This type of behavior wouldn’t be accepted in most other areas (imagi...

This is definitely a possibility, I'm currently trying to do this before ordering a third set, but so far no luck. Most artists don't seem to be interested in and/or comfortable trying to duplicate someone else's style (I can understand why, probably both boring and very hard). In this case all cha...

I read somewhere that when it comes to commissions, there are three things that people want: cheap, fast, good. You can get two, but you can’t get all three. You can get fast and good, but it won’t be cheap. You can get fast and cheap, but it won’t be good. You can get good and cheap, but it won’t ...