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cpl_crud wrote:Recruitment was haphazard; we had a forum on this page for recruitment where anyone could volunteer, and we posted a lot on 4chan and the like to get people to come here.

I read in that forum that you were cursed and all the artists working on your projects ended up spending time in the hospital at one point or another. Did you ever break that curse, or are all of your artists still doomed to suffer a hospital visit at some during the job?

Nearly everybody is doomed to suffer a hospital visit at some time during a four-plus-year job. Now, if you want to call that a "curse"... :p

Were Lilly and Shizune class representatives in their first and second years?

Leaty wrote:Were Lilly and Shizune class representatives in their first and second years?

Yes.

Silentcook wrote:Nearly everybody is doomed to suffer a hospital visit at some time during a four-plus-year job. Now, if you want to cal that a "curse"... :p

Hey man some of us don't go to hospitals because we can't afford them and just use haphazard first aid techniques when we get hurt.

Is there ANY CHANCE for Katawa Shoujo 2? And if you don't mind, can you give an explanation to why, and also the timeframe that we can expect for the release? Please. Pretty please?

I want to ask something.
Is Miki have a specific sexual orientation? Or she's just really open-minded about this?

Yeah, it's an akward question, but I need to know this for my writting XD

Evotic wrote:Is there ANY CHANCE for Katawa Shoujo 2? And if you don't mind, can you give an explanation to why, and also the timeframe that we can expect for the release? Please. Pretty please? :P

Of course there's a chance, but it's pretty unlikely.

Making visual novels, especially of Katawa Shoujo's magnitude, is extremely hard work. Since we avoid commercializing KS, the only incentive we have for making a sequel is our own motivation and interest. Let's say we are starting a new project. We could either make a KS sequel, or something else. The problem with making a KS sequel is that it's less interesting than the other option, since that could be literally anything we're into and KS isn't that great in comparison. It's a highschool romance, a trite genre that visual novels are completely saturated with. Even though KS's setting is mildly better than a generic Japanese highschool, it's heavily burdened by some bad design decisions we made when we were beginners. There just aren't any upsides to making more KS compared to a fresh start, except the guaranteed popularity (which we don't give a fuck about) and the already existing setting reducing workload (which isn't really an upside). Thus I, and probably most other 4LS members would rather use our time, creativity and efforts into something that interests us more than Katawa Shoujo 2

Of course at some point in the future we might change our minds about all this, or planets might align in just the right way. This is partially why we reserve the rights of KS to ourselves. I just don't see it happening, realistically. That's why you shouldn't expect a sequel to happen.

Kon22 wrote:Honestly, KS doesn't need a sequel.

There's a faction of KS fans who disagree. We've got some feedback from people who feel the stories are incomplete and should be continued to the adulthood of the characters in a sequel.

Aura, I've been digging around the forums a while, but I've not been able to find an answer to this. Have you ever given Natsume Ooe a personality of her own, and what do you think she would be like as a person?

Delta, I'd like to ask the same question of you, but for Naomi Inoue's personality and behaviour.

Thanks!

brythain wrote:Aura, I've been digging around the forums a while, but I've not been able to find an answer to this. Have you ever given Natsume Ooe a personality of her own, and what do you think she would be like as a person?

Delta, I'd like to ask the same question of you, but for Naomi Inoue's personality and behaviour.

Thanks!

Not really. Since she essentially represents me, I guess her personality would same as mine too?

Razoredge wrote:I want to ask something.
Is Miki have a specific sexual orientation? Or she's just really open-minded about this?

Yeah, it's an akward question, but I need to know this for my writting XD

Miki is whatever you want her to be, I don't think we ever thought super-hard about it or at all.

Aura wrote:it's heavily burdened by some bad design decisions we made when we were beginners

What would be some examples of these bad design decisions?

Razoredge wrote:I want to ask something.
Is Miki have a specific sexual orientation? Or she's just really open-minded about this?

Yeah, it's an akward question, but I need to know this for my writting XD

Bi. Have fun.

Aura, I don't know if someone asked already, but I really wanna know: What is the actual status of 4LS and its members? Does anyone of them has some kind of plan to another game (this one being or not a KS 2) with the others KS developers?

Because if some of you intend to put the Studio back online to make another game, I would TOTALLY support you, since KS has been such an emotive and wonderful game for me so far, even only doing the Hanako's Neutral Way, I didn't even knew that a game could make me think so much about my own life... And by the way, thanks, A LOT, for the game.