Tununias wrote:Who held the source files of the game during production? Or did everyone have a copy in order to prevent the project from dieing if the person quit?
Who made the character sprites. I don't think I've seen anything like it before.
Our server did. We used a version control system on the development version of the game, that stored a "master" copy of KS on our server and kept everyone's working copy of KS and itself in sync. In addition we have a ftp server that we used as a storage for development files, game assets, reference files, work files such as .psds and all other kinds of crap (seriously at some point someone uploaded 300MB of photos of those creepy dollfies on the ftp, and I remember purging over 1Gb of porn doujins from there at some point)
The sprites were made by the artists, of course. Moekki, Raide, Weee and Kamifish made a majority of them, and also worth mentioning is gebyy's contribution to KS, the design and sprites of Kenji, Nurse, Nomiya and Sae.
EDIT: I just checked and what the fuck those doll pictures are still there. Also, our digital inventory holds items such as:
- a digital edition of David Kushner's the Masters of Doom
- a chart of average Japanese body measure statistics
- a pdf of a Wired article about the information technology guru Ted Nelson
- erotic anime style fanart of KS developers (!)
- a copy of the demo of the visual novel Mahotsukai no Yoru
- a copy of the turn based bullet hell shooter Raidaa no Asahi
- tons of resources on how to draw celtic knot designs
- a picture of a moe anthropomorphication of the space shuttle Endeavour
- crud's vacation photos from Japan
- a picture of a chibified Lisianthus from Shuffle!
- a mp3 mix of the songs "Naraku no Hana" by Eiko Shimamiya and "No Diggity" by Blackstreet feat Dr. Dre
- a field report from the 4LS Black Ops operative (this is an actual position in 4LS) of his infiltration mission to a hipster gamer community festival.
- a video of KS that has been manipulated and sped up so it appears that Lilly is stroking her humongous, invisible penis with her hands
and much more. I guarantee all of these were necessary for making KS.
Also, to above poster, I'd say that a VCS such as SVN is pretty much a requirement for a project like this. It was invaluable for us.