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It seems like the MC would be someone to self-impose a friendzone, from what little you told me about his personality he seems like the kind of guy to doubt things rather than being impulsive and just seeing if it works, and who seems like the kind of man lacking companionship and friends to risk t...

1. What sort of person is the main character? Are they a distinct individual with beliefs, goals, abilities, and so on? Are they a person whose attributes are determined by the reader through choices or statistics? Are they a vaguely defined stand-in for the reader -- someone they can pretend to be...

@Caveat Lector Oh, thanks! The Springhole link in addition to your questions has given me quite a bit to look into. I honestly hadn't thought about many of those aspects in their relationship. As for the ones I can answer now, I want it to be around a few months between the two meeting, becoming fri...

I'm excited to say that I'm working on my first VN. The main route is likely going to focus on a relationship right after it has started rather than the pursuit of one. Ok, that's probably confusing. I mean that the MC and the love interest begin a friendship and then romantic relationship near the ...

Hi Mammon. I finished your game a few days ago and just thought I'd leave a short review here. While the yandere archetype is not really one that tend to I seek out, the overall quality of your work is undeniable. The writing flows well and easily grabbed my attention from the opening scenes. I feel...

(Disclaimer: I'm about give advice that most artists would probably not reccomend but a method that worked for me. My background came from drawing by reference. I tried various anime styles with my older brother when we were little...miss that :') NialGrenville, in order to improve I think you need ...

I agree with RedOwl, in that I like to listen to music while I'm working. It's far easier for me to spend several hours on something when there's a soundtrack playing in the background. It's interesting to hear that so many find the lyrics distracting. I guess I don't really pay much attention to th...

@Fuseblower @Mammon I'm very sorry if I appeared to over simplify the matter. :oops: My post was intended for those who want to give 2d animation in VNs a shot but don't understand the basic fundamentals behind how animating works (which is what I went on to explain a bit, because I personally hadn'...

Hi. Late but... I'd also like to see more animation in VNs, though frankly more CGs would be just as nice. Often you only see CG in moments that highlight an important event of the story, but it would be great to see VNs that have a CG highlighting the most important moments of each scene as well. B...

What about VNs interests you? (Art, story, immersive ability) When I read a visual novel, I tend to mostly look for three things: 1) Is the art good? I must apologize in advance for my viewpoint on this matter, but remember that it's only my opinion. Graphics are imporant in visual novels for a numb...

@Parataxis Thanks for sharing another perspective on the topic. I'm glad to see that I was on the right track with my initial assumption. So there are multiple ways to view the same trait in a given situation, and that's the secret per se to rounding a character (in essence, making an effort to writ...

... You must either love to make music or have some real neurotic dedication. Back then, I had the idea in my head that this would be a VN about music and relationships. If you look at VNs like Kira Kira , it's successor Dear Drops , or indie novel Rock Robin , that's the gist of things. But I'm no...

Don't think writing will be any faster than art and coding. Take the time you needed for a piece of art and then ask people how long they thought it took, the difference between that is even greater with writing. I can sometimes sink an entire hour just into one post of Lemmasoft, so a real story t...

The advice above is all good advice, certainly things I try to do whenever I can. But you asked for my process so here it is. ... This. Thanks so much for sharing your process with me. It looks like you have a good workflow here, far better than my initial organizational attempts. I hope you won't ...

The best advice I can give for making branching paths in longer novels is putting choices where you think the player would like to make a choice; if you can't tell, then try to get someone else to read the script for you. Something to keep in mind is that F/SN and Clannad are at the extreme high en...