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bytenirvana wrote: Is there a rough estimate how much text the game contains?

The English script of Act 1 contains roughly 96133 words.

Well, we don't know what we would do with money if we had donations. I mean, none of us spend anything else except time on this. Our hosting is free because we have internet friends who give strong support when needed, and everyone has enough money to buy tea/cigarettes/red wine/amphetamine to keep ...

We could, but we don't want to. We decided long ago to keep money away from KS unless it made absolute sense to go along with some business plan (this is so improbable that it's not even funny). We're not in this for money.

KS runs on almost anything, but you are going to experience slowdown and frame drops during the CPU-intensive graphical effect sequences. Even my fairly powerful dual core rig drops frames during Rin's ending scene.

I meant the latter most

most = crud

It's true.

Nomiya talks with the voice of Norio Wakamoto inside my head.

None of the dev team is disabled as far as I know, but one of the oldfags who hangs with us is, and he helped with research phase. We also have a medical professional who has dealt with stuff like amputations in his work and he also did medical research, most notably for Hisao's heart condition.

Basically KS could be considered an illegal derivative work of RAITA's concept page. However, since we do not use any part of the page as is except the title, the contribution from him is so miniscule compared to the amount of original work in the game that it probably would be disregarded anyway as...

To reduce the grief, I'm gonna tell you which characters are original designs by the artists instead of references (actually they all are references as well, but to stuff only we know).

3,4,6,9,13,14,17 (she is not Ritsu),18

Misha is far less annoying than I feared. When I first heard the 4LS team was introducing an original female character to the cast, it was a big disappointment. Thanks. Also, I'd like to compliment the multiple artists for being able to work in sync and produce extremely consistent character portra...

Well, all the devs have become better at their respective trade and we, as a "studio" are collectively a lot better at making VNs than what we were when we started. If we knew then what we know now, KS itself could be quite a bit better. If there was some concept or idea that could unite u...

RAITA owns the original concept page of course, but he does not own KS.

SnS? Well eh, its main selling point is the concept - alternative victorian era with various western real and fictional people starring, some in a bit "alternative" forms (the cast includes Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, Winston Churchill, Charlotte Bronte, H.P Lovecraft and so on, i...

The reasons for Misha being at the school are not mentioned during Act 1. Maybe she'll mention something about it in the full game, maybe not. Who knows?