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Could just as well answer "everything" as "nothing", or anything in between, to the question. I don't remember having any big single issues, but I'm the type that's never content. So, if I actually would set out to change something, I'd rather just rewrite the entire thing from g...

I generally don't read fan fiction, KS flavour or not. As far as I know, same goes for almost everyone else in 4LS, though I'm sure everyone has read at least a couple. Back in 2007-2008, I read the first 10-20 ever KS fanfics (fanfics of a work that didn't exist yet and wouldn't for several years t...

It was a characteristic quirk of 4LS's development "model", that despite our strongly distributed working environment (only four of us ever worked physically in the same space, and we were across all the timezones too), we documented very poorly. Instead we depended on a kind of a collect...

I'm not sure which things crud is thinking about, but at the very least I think he's painting a somewhat generous picture of us. Obviously there's a million things that were considered but didn't work out. The amount of actual script we wrote but isn't included in KS is greater than the amount writi...

We actually briefly considered changing the name when KS first made rounds in the Japanese parts of the internet. All the alternatives we came up with were godawful though (not that anyone spent much time on thinking about it). That, plus that the name was bestowed on the project by RAITA's picture,...

Kenji is somewhat similar to the online persona of his creator, A22. Not really based on, but the similarities are there even if Kenji is very exaggerated and cartoonish. To my knowledge none of the characters are based on any actual or fictional people we know. All of them are influenced by hundred...

As the creator of a VN, and just in general, do you think it's necessary for a work, a VN or a book, to be anything more than just something fun, or an excercise on storytelling? Alternatively, do you think a work is 'better' when it has something to say, than when it's just telling a story? This k...

Neither of those details were decided, as they have no bearing to the story.

As writers...does it make you Happy,Creeped out or Concerned the way people have bonded with the girls? None of them. I've been around long enough to become insensitive to how fan cultures of fictional characters work. KS isn't special just because I happened to make it. I guess if I step back and ...

Yeah I don't care to look for my numbers or do the math again myself, but that post about Act 1 probabilities above looks like it can't be right. If you guys want to work it out (possibly actually worthwhile), take it to a new thread.

There should be no cause for concern. I gave permission to use Hanako in a fictional poster in one of the background illustrations of the game. Hanako the character will not appear.

The fact that such a large percentage of people get Emi as their first heroine seems to hinge on following the nurse's orders getting them there. Was this intended? I.e., to make Emi a kind of baseline-setting "first girl"? Or was this tendency a surprise to the devs? You could say it was...

I don't particularly get any KS impulses, and when I do I remember that there's at least two dozen more interesting things I could spend my time on instead. That's pretty much the fundamental problem with "making more KS". I never say never, but it's pretty unlikely I'd want to seriously c...

Nobody seems to have asked this yet, so I'll jump on it while it's fresh: Why'd you write from Miki's perspective? I like it, it's just surprising since nothing else was written from anybody's perspective other than Hisao's. Just pointing out that you're wrong: all of us wrote things in other persp...

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