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Questions of the sort have already been asked, but if you'll humor me: what would you say was the team's biggest misconception about the task of creating a visual novel of such a size? Do you think the development time would have been significantly shorter if you had had a better idea of the scope ...

Woah. Do you have a book, Crud?

EDIT: Nevermind, I just saw the link...

Heyyy, merry christmas. I hope you're all having a good time with your loved ones (or alone)!

It's christmas and I'm mildly drunk so here's a silly question.

If you had to spend christmas, and all that encompasses for you, with one of the girls in the game, who would it be?

Yes, I ran We are IN Denial (WinD) for a few years. The biggest thing we did was Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, but there were a few rew others It was a while ago but here is a blog post about it http://wp.me/p1huKD-eu Bit of an odd question I suppose but, Crud, who would you say it's your favorite ...

Was it hard to find members that sticked around for the whole project? I'm guessing a lot of people misjudged the amount of work a VN could take, and not all of them decided to stay. This is specially true if you take into account that you didn't sell the game and that, as far as I know, no money ...

Happy new year, y'all! During the development, did you ever feel like someone was trying to implement their ideas over the rest? Did everyone, artists included, have a say on the direction the project was going or did you all simply resonate well and it never became a problem? Do you feel like this ...

I know you get a lot like these, but, what would you say is the most common mistake rookies make when they want to make a visual novel (Or a similar project, really)? Trying to chew more than they can swallow? Lack of organization? Lack of focus on the project?

I know you somewhat researched into Hisao's disease to keep it somewhat realistic. Were you worried about depicting something from Japan's culture/geography wrong? And, was there something you had overseen and had to "fix" later?

Did you guys start the project expecting to finish it, or did you think it was eventually going to get dropped? And, was there a point during development where you thought the project was going to die?

As far as i know, no money was invested in the making of KS, right?

If so, was it hard to find artists and musicians? Was it hard to keep the drawing style consistent during the game? And, how many artists did the team had?

Holy crap, I've no idea that there was so much thought behind some of the stuff, like the pills.

Also, if it's okay to ask, why exactly did you went to Japan, Aura? Was it just a recreational travel?

Did the members of the project who weren't writers (artists, musicians, etc) have a say in the direction the game went? This is, things like the story, the theme, the characters. If someone didn't like something, did you guys scrapped it and tried to work it around, or did the writers have full ...

You just mentioned that you didn't have an art team at the beggining, and this came to me. How did you... recruit a team? Did you simply asked people you knew? Or used 4chan/some kind of forum?

Suriko wrote: This is super late but there were six CGs discarded during development.

Oh, thanks! I find this really interesting. Not gonna ask in detail because I know I wouldn't get an answer, but are those CGs from discarded events, or simply different/failed versions of CGs that got in the game?

Do you believe there's still any question worth being asked in this thread?