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[Aura]

It feels like the paths of the game are in an appropriate order, with the Emi-path Hisao feeling kind of entitled to his chosen partner's affections, the Hanako-and-Lilly-path Hisao putting a huge amount of responsibility for his happiness in the hands of each girl (climaxing in Lilly's path with the poor guy nearly killing himself over her), the Rin-path Hisao having to acknowledge that fully understanding another person is impossible, and the Shizune-path Hisao finally being okay with the fact that he probably won't be with Shizune forever, but that he cherishes her all the same and it's okay if she is her own person.

This feeling in me is strengthened by the fact that the Hisao in each path has progressively stronger ideas about being a science teacher. In Emi's path,the idea is pretty much handed to him by his teacher, and during the Hanako and Lilly paths he comes to the conclusion on his own but has only vague ideas about how satisfying it is, but by the end of the Shizune path not only is he sure he wants to teach, but he is sure that it is because he wants to help out students like himself who are reeling from the changes to their lives.

Is there a kind of meta-plot about exploring all possible Hisaos? Was there coordination happening on this level? Or am I off my meds (again)?

The paths are not in any order? If you mean the library, they are in alphabetical order as the other guy mentioned.

[Aura]

Which artists actually are professionals in their area? I think that at least the music was made by people who use music to live.

None. Neither are the composers. Nor the writers. Nor the coder. None of us is.

[SniperUnit6]

excuse me, can you please help me? i have KS act1, the first release, v2, and HD. i downloaded HD yesterday but when i installed it, all i see is start and quit. when i press start, it just take me back to the main screen. and im wondering why the HD KS ive DL'ed is only no more than 50MB. PLEASE! tell me how to install it properly cause im disappointed about looking answers on the blog, and the web. thank you!!!

[WorldlyWiseman]

The paths are not in any order? If you mean the library, they are in alphabetical order as the other guy mentioned.

I see. Thanks. Placed in alphabetical order, each path progresses further into the school year and a bunch of things like that. It's a weird coincidence. You are right, you're on the dev team. I'm making too much of a bunch of coincidences and I guess I'd feel better if someone else had noticed that all of these details were coming together just so? Oh well whatever.

One more question and I'll stop being achingly pretentious all over your ask thread.

For the writer of the Shizune path (A22, right?); is the way that Misha treats her parfaits supposed to refer to how she deals with her emotions, allowing them to melt all together and bleed into other parts of her life? Was it meant to contrast with Shizune's specifically described ability to compartmentalize her emotions?
If so, I thought it was a brilliant image and I can really relate to it.

[Accel]

Hello, I'm putting together a paper on Internet social behavior and would love to ask some questions to the developers. Is this the only method that questions are being accepted? I would prefer to talk over Skype, over a phone, or at least an IM, but if this forum is preferable I will just post some of my questions.

Edit: No longer relevant.

[cpl_crud]

Hello, I'm putting together a paper on Internet social behavior and would love to ask some questions to the developers. Is this the only method that questions are being accepted? I would prefer to talk over Skype, over a phone, or at least an IM, but if this forum is preferable I will just post some of my questions.

PM the devcs that you are intesreste in talking toand take it from there.

I would say the IRC channel will be the most effective method.

[Blue123]

I was curious; what were the programs used for making the soundtrack? Especially the drum machine (assuming they're not real drums).

For what I did, I used Sibelius. If you dig deep enough, I posted a screenshot a long time ago. Sequencing and fancy stuff was done in FL Studio (or at least, I pretended to as best as I could back then).

[NoOne3]

Names.

How did you get to naming the characters (main cast at least)?

I can't believe nobody asked you that already, but I can't find it using search.

It just hit me, while looking for some Eimee Mullins references how her first name sounds like Emi's. Am I even close with that one? What about the other names

[centrefuge]

hey guys

just wanna ask if any of you guys had this game brought to your attention by chilled

and I wanna say I'm glad he did (best game ever)

[TheHivemind]

Names.

How did you get to naming the characters (main cast at least)?

I can't believe nobody asked you that already, but I can't find it using search.

It just hit me, while looking for some Eimee Mullins references how her first name sounds like Emi's. Am I even close with that one? What about the other names?

The names were all decided by polls and insults. I think Emi's name was a pretty unanimous decision, not a lot of scrapping for it.

The Eimee Mullins thing? Completely a coincidence, as far as I know.

[anonymouse]

Um...this might be too far, but has the dev-team considered putting in possible yaoi paths?

[Sethkowns]

Im not sure if this has been asked before, but what was the inspiration behind Kenji? Why was he created the way he was?

[Godly Treat]

I know in the Game FAQs section you say there will be no sequal or prequal, but will there be any possibility of a DLC. Two huge possibilities could added Misha path or a continued life of HIsao with all the other paths stretched onwards.

[Silentcook]

That's not all we said in the game FAQs.

Q: Will there be a fandisc, sequel, or prequel to Katawa Shoujo?
A: No. There will be no other work in any way related to Katawa Shoujo.

[hinoirocks]

Well, this may be sort of redundant (I know other people have assumed Rin was Autistic, had Aspergers, etc) but, since Rin, per Raita's original art, was a "thalidomide" girl. Was any thought given to the other aspects of thalidomide exposure as an infant?
http://www.thalidomide.ca/recognition-o ... e-defects/, in addition to some physical issues, lists things like :

FUNCTIONAL PROBLEMS
A number of thalidomide damaged persons exhibit a variety of neurodevelopmental problems: mental handicap, dyslexia, autism, or epilepsy