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Dreamcastin wrote:What is Hisao's birthday. It's something that's been weirdly bugging me.

We usually give 1.4 as the answer for this.

You may have answered this already, but were there any side characters that were conceptualized but never used or scrapped?

Several. Niji is perhaps the most significant one, but I can think of at least four more split between Lilly's and Hanako's paths plus more one-liners and no-liners and still more who were nothing but a name. Mostly if someone required visual attention yet appeared little they got the axe, because having to sprite extras was horribly inefficient.

Also I don't remember Aoi being supposed to have any different role anywhere ever. Please don't misinform if you're not sure of what you're saying, as mentioned in the first post of this thread.

Silentcook wrote:Several. Niji is perhaps the most significant one, but I can think of at least four more split between Lilly's and Hanako's paths plus more one-liners and no-liners and still more who were nothing but a name.

Here's what I want to know: Why was Niji cut? Was it because Lilly having a seeing-eye dog at Yamaku was too odd or something like that?

Steinherz wrote:

Silentcook wrote:Several. Niji is perhaps the most significant one, but I can think of at least four more split between Lilly's and Hanako's paths plus more one-liners and no-liners and still more who were nothing but a name.

Here's what I want to know: Why was Niji cut? Was it because Lilly having a seeing-eye dog at Yamaku was too odd or something like that?

Useless bloat. He didn't do anything for the story nor was interesting enough to keep, plus caused a bunch of logistics problems.

Aura wrote:

Steinherz wrote:

Silentcook wrote:Several. Niji is perhaps the most significant one, but I can think of at least four more split between Lilly's and Hanako's paths plus more one-liners and no-liners and still more who were nothing but a name.

Here's what I want to know: Why was Niji cut? Was it because Lilly having a seeing-eye dog at Yamaku was too odd or something like that?

Useless bloat. He didn't do anything for the story nor was interesting enough to keep, plus caused a bunch of logistics problems.

Such as?

Sea wrote:

Aura wrote: Useless bloat. He didn't do anything for the story nor was interesting enough to keep, plus caused a bunch of logistics problems.

Such as?

Visualization: He would almost always have to be onscreen with Lilly, taking up precious screen real estate... except he's a dog, so he'd only be to up like the thigh of the characters, and as such almost completely covered by the text box.
Narration: He would almost always have to be onscene with Lilly, taking up mental space. Suriko occasionally had trouble even writing in the specifics of Lilly's blindness. A dog might've been too much.

Both of these problems are solvable for sure, and possibly even pretty interesting to work out. However, we decided that the dog wasn't what we wanted.

Pardon me KS devs! I've been having an ongoing debate of epic proportions with my KS group in regards to Rin. We have both used examples based on human nature and history to prove our points. It has been decided that the only way to solve this, is to ask you, the glorious Developers.

Does Rin have a mental disability of any sort?

The fine fellow I'm debating says that she does.

I say that she does NOT.

There is more detail, but I want to leave this as objective as posible in the interest of my fellow debater.

Thank you in advance for your input! We all really appreciate the effort you guys put into making this piece of work, and I think you'd be pleased to know, I'm going to be using KS to prove a point on my term paper. So theres always that. xD

have a good day!

~Zailen

Zailen wrote:Pardon me KS devs! I've been having an ongoing debate of epic proportions with my KS group in regards to Rin. We have both used examples based on human nature and history to prove our points. It has been decided that the only way to solve this, is to ask you, the glorious Developers.

Does Rin have a mental disability of any sort?

I never thought she has, but I'm not a psychiatrist.

delta wrote:

TheHivemind wrote: It is awfully difficult to convince a department full of Shakespeare and Byron Shelly devotees that Zork or Homestuck have real literary merit.

It's awfully difficult to convince ANYONE of that, mostly for the reason that it's laughably absurd.

But isn't that really the point of post-graduate studies? Especially in the arts?

I think i read a reply by the devs in this thread that said KS's original setting was planned to be a russian orphanage in the 20's (At least i think i read that, apologies if i'm mistaken) but the setting of the finished product is very different.

What drove you to this change in setting? Was there an specific reason for which you decided to make that change?

Dream wrote:I think i read a reply by the devs in this thread that said KS's original setting was planned to be a russian orphanage in the 20's (At least i think i read that, apologies if i'm mistaken) but the setting of the finished product is very different.

What drove you to this change in setting? Was there an specific reason for which you decided to make that change?

You've got it the wrong way around. "A Russian orphanage" is the answer we give to the question "If not for Japanese highschool, what setting you would've used for KS?". It's asked often because we tend to rail against KS's setting every chance we get.

Did you guys know the crowd sound was used in Attack on Titan, in the first episode around the 8 minute mark? I can tell from the guy saying "Well we can stack 'em."
Did you guys get that sound from somewhere, or did someone in the dev team make it?

If a group of fans decided to work and make a sequel to this, would you allow it? Thinking about it, it would be similar to how this one was made? Just wondering, doubt enough people would help make one anyway

How often dd the writers meed to discuss things like the general timeline of the story? I noticed that, for the most part, the timeline seemed consistent, but there were some discrepancies.