As for how long it took me... Well, it took much longer than a kinetic novel should take in my opinion. I started this project way back in April by myself when I discovered Ren Py'. I hooked my friend into helping me write the script and I basically took care of the programming and art. But I also had school, exams, and RL to contend with and that got in the way. A lot.
Art was pretty tricky... I was going to do hand-drawn sprites at first since I didn't have a tablet and I had zero CGing skills. But then I got a tablet, gained a few CGing skills thanks to the help of certain people and hated myself to redo the character sprites. :B And THEN I lost contact with my co-writer for a few weeks so storywise nothing was moving along until he came back and we FINALLY were able to finish it off this month. So it was a lot of work, more than I wanted to do at first, but then I guess this just means that even with the simple things I plan out, hard work is put into it so I don't give people crap to look at. I'm glad you like my story, short as it was.
...wow...I started thinking about making one towards the beginning of this month and I still don't have a full story! 
, the story was really interesting and well written, I thought the heroine was lovely as was the artwork. I also liked how the backgrounds mixed well even if they didn't have the same art-style as the characters, the only thing I didn't like was the main character himself, I honestly didn't like him too much 
