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ogorhan wrote:Did you guys had a idea in mind when writing the story for the girls, any inspirations that influenced how the story turned out? Why for example Rin's story would be about how to express herself & her art or Emi's about her nightmares & running, etc.

This is a slightly differently shaped "Where do you get your ideas" question, which artists and writers traditionally hate because there's no real answer that doesn't sound dismissive or hostile towards the question. I asked Neil Gaiman to write an answer for you: http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/ ... r_ideas%3F

tl;dr. Yes, we had an idea, many ideas in fact. We made them up, out of our heads. There's no single source or simply explainable reason for most of them.

Kibaro wrote:1. how do you imagined Lilly's eyes? orinetal shaped or western shaped?
2. the site keeps bugging out for me like really long loads, errors and stuff like that do you know why this is happening?
3. how much do you like chocolate from 1-10 and what kind?:D

1. Anime shaped, as depicted in the art
2. If you mean the forums, likely server troubles because I'm getting that too.
3. About 6.

When was the last time you (devs) played all of Katawa Shoujo, start to finish?

ArcCain wrote:When was the last time you (devs) played all of Katawa Shoujo, start to finish?

I'm going to go out on a limb and answer "never" for pretty much everyone.

You probably should take a second look at the comments we've made of this topic. There's a pretty big difference between being self-critical and realistic and "despising your own work". Here's an example

I'd guess the actual reason for most of us not wanting to read KS is saturation. We ate and breathed KS for five years. At least I've read KS probably close to 20 times during development in total. I just don't see any point to reading it again in at least another 10 years.

Edit: indifference is not a term I'd use either. I definitely am not indifferent towards KS.

if an anime producer were to contact you and say they want to make an anime out of KS, would you accept? im guessing it would be a mature anime, doesnt necesarily need to be full hentai all the way like some people would expect of it:P

Kibaro wrote:if an anime producer were to contact you and say they want to make an anime out of KS, would you accept? im guessing it would be a mature anime, doesnt necesarily need to be full hentai all the way like some people would expect of it:P

Almost definitely no.

Kibaro wrote:if an anime producer were to contact you and say they want to make an anime out of KS, would you accept? im guessing it would be a mature anime, doesnt necesarily need to be full hentai all the way like some people would expect of it:P

Oh goodness no. That would introduce all manner of complications--who gets paid, how much are we paid, etc., and opens the door for all sorts of lawyering (Raita could sue us, we could sue each other, people who fell off the project might want a cut, etc. etc.). Besides, as said when the subject of someone else making a sequel came up, frankly we wouldn't trust them to do it properly.

Happy birthday, Hanako!

Also, from there, I gotta ask. Did you based the girl's birthdays in.. anything? Or, more like, did you choose those dates for a reason or they are completely random? I'm not implying that you had a very deep reason (Like a lot of people think you should have for most trivial decisions), but I could see you at least chosing each girl zodiac sign. So, was that the case?

Kon22 wrote:Happy birthday, Hanako!

Also, from there, I gotta ask. Did you based the girl's birthdays in.. anything? Or, more like, did you choose those dates for a reason or they are completely random? I'm not implying that you had a very deep reason (Like a lot of people think you should have for most trivial decisions), but I could see you at least chosing each girl zodiac sign. So, was that the case?

I know that Hanako/Lilly (there were some swaps during development) were chosen simply so that they would fall in the game.

The birthdays are more or less random (although by sheer coincidence, I share Hanako's birthday).

TheHivemind wrote:The birthdays are more or less random (although by sheer coincidence, I share Hanako's birthday).

Are you older or younger than her?

Rin's birthday is the date when I wrote the first text about her. Hisao's (super uncanonical) birthday is January 4th - the beginning date of KS project. Emi's was decided to be one day off Rin's. Rest are random, but chosen so that Hanako's and Lilly's fall in summer, during KS's events, and the rest do not, as crud says above.

Aura wrote:Rin's birthday is the date when I wrote the first text about her. Hisao's (super uncanonical) birthday is January 4th - the beginning date of KS project. Emi's was decided to be one day off Rin's. Rest are random, but chosen so that Hanako's and Lilly's fall in summer, during KS's events, and the rest do not, as crud says above.

Errm, 'super uncanonical'? As in symbolic but not actual? I seem to remember someone suggesting it was the other way around, 1st April, perhaps. Happy with the rest, mystified by this one… Thanks!

Aura wrote:Hanako's and Lilly's fall in summer, during KS's events

Er—? Lilly's is Feb 7, according to her bio.