What's your reason for making a visual novel? Since when?

[Bto3]

I write VNs because I adore the storytelling style of visual novels (branching paths! Pictures!) and I want to bring something to the market that isn't yet out there (as far as I can see). I can't be the only person that wants to read about a polyamorous, pansexual protagonist with cute friendships and a side of horror, can I?

I got involved in this whole mess a few years ago and have been writing my main project off and on since then.

[Kam]

ketskari hit the nail on the head pretty hard.
I made webcomics for years until it became tedious (My flame for Animating was also extinguished after my graduation project). Now you'll have to catch me on a good day to draw one.
Explored photography and just writing too, but unless a Thought-to-Media machine gets invented, the VN format suits the story I want to tell the most.
The struggle is all that drawing again though, but I'll manage.
Maybe.
I wish my pencil had a built-in photoshop, because my tablet-screen coordination isn't quite good.

Story-branching is also pretty neat.

[Le Hewitt]

My reason for choosing interactive storytelling, and specifically using visual novels as a medium, is centered in the moments in the stories I've experienced that were able to reach out and mean something more to me than just words on a screen. For whatever reason, the artform excels at bringing forth questions to the reader and making them notice elements in their personal lives. When I first discovered Katawa Shoujo, it completely changed by perception on some of the past events and people in my life, and made me realize things about myself and who I am that I didn't know before. In that way, it helped me along in my life a great deal and it is my desire to achieve a similar effect with any kind of narrative that I may create as well. I have always been in love with stories, writing them and reading them, and I believe that it is through these stories that a writer can reach out to an audience and bring meaning to the madness that so often consumes our days.

[x_ForgottenSmile_x]

Originally, because there were a lot of hot guys xD. When I did try and make one I realized ir was really hard and so when I finished it I showed it to my friends and they seem to love it. After that, I became determined it make more and more to be able to make my stories be alive. I decided I wanna work in Japan (Even though I'm a Filipino) and become a game developer, I already learned the basic python coding, I'll work hard and also enjoy in my future games.

[Fourteenthangel]

I always wanted to tell stories and I always loved to draw. I even made a few comics in the past with varying the degrees of success. Even since I was little, my head was filled with ideas. I didn't really start to get attracted to the idea of making a visual novel til recently. Originally I had wanted to make a game, but then I started looking into visual novels. Seems like the thing to do so I started appealing to notion of making my own visual novel. So far I only have a word document and loads of ambition but my hope is that able to one day complete it.

[piichimi]

My biggest inspiration for creating my own visual novel is G Senjou no Maou.
Ever since playing that game, I've been in love with visual novels, that I had even come up with a story in my head,
and characters, and I had been practicing sprites for a while, so I figured, why not create my own visual novel?
And I'm really enjoying working on it too!