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Aura wrote:1. It doesn't need more, and more importantly, the lack of choices communicates something important about the nature of their relationship.
2. As the release post said, it's very likely the final version.
3. Rin doesn't particularly like Hisao, he's just something she latches on for a while.
4. No.
5. Making other things might be more interesting to us.
6. There is a bad end.

1: Oh, well, how does it communicate something important about the nature of their relationship? My guess is that their relationship and personalities would be well structured to the point where Hisao wouldn't need to decide what to do in order to maintain the relationship...until Misha wants some comfort.(I do gotta admit, that was a clever trap.I simply thought that Hisao should comfort her since she's rather sad. Then I saw the point where Hisao's stripping her and is about to do her and my reaction was: "I SAID COMFORT HER NOT FUCK HER!!" What were they thinking at that point anyway? I guess I should've figured out that would happen when Misha tried to kiss Misao. Apart from that, I guess I pity her so much that I fell into the trap easily).I guess the nature of the relationship is that if Hisao just joined the council and remained as friends, things would be fine...but if Hisao made a relationship with Shizune, then the relationship with Shizune and Misha would have been critically damaged. If Hisao did comfort her, then their guilt would finish off the relationship for good. If not, then guilt isn't involved and they can live a happy life...I think. That would be my guess, either that or I should replay that route again.
2: I wasn't aware of the Release post. Can you tell me where it is at?
3: I see, thanks. Might've brought a whole new meaning to the question and answer of: "Q: So How did you two became a couple? A: I don't know".
4: I would likely suggest placing that in the FAQ just in case others might ask something like this in this section. (If I"m the only one that asked that though, then now I'm aware).
5: I understand. I'm interested, what are you guys making?
6: So Lilly going to the airplane with her sister and Hisao deciding not to risk his heart and run to her counts as a bad ending? Because if it does then I guess it makes sense, since it means their relationship would've been dead like the relationship with Hisao and Iwanako because of the physical distance.Either that or there are three endings.

1. I'll leave it up to you to interpret the story.
2. http://katawashoujo.blogspot.fi/2015/06 ... nd-of.html
4. The FAQ says pretty unambiguously that bringing this topic up is grounds for getting banned.
5. Secret.
6. Yes.

So I've been trying to answer this question on my own, than even tried looking it up and I still can't grasp this.

Why does Lilly continue to pursue a relationship with Hisao, knowing she was to move to Scotland at the start of summer holidays?

Was Lilly just curious to see how the relationship will go, and in the end if it doesn't work out just Christian-Bale it? Or was she intending to mend both Hisao and Hanako before she leaves, but accidently slips into falling in love with Hisao? Or, did Lilly already fall for Hisao before knowing about her transfer to Scotland. Maybe I just answered my own question. But I still get this question stuck in my head, and none of these answers gives me any closure.Up to act 4, I thought this route would be the only route where nothing really bad happens and all of a sudden Akira drops the A-bomb. I'm just like, why? Why? This is so unnecessary. The fuck Lilly? "Don't leave me"! Because ya, you'll do it yourself. Makes a fucking lot of sense. Got the good ending, thought I'm still bothered by this.

As far as i know, no money was invested in the making of KS, right?

If so, was it hard to find artists and musicians? Was it hard to keep the drawing style consistent during the game? And, how many artists did the team had?

Yeah. 4LS didn't have a budget.

It was challenging, but not impossibly hard to find artists or musicians. What was hard was keeping artists. A project like KS is a huge committment and turns out many young artists get scared of it once they realize just how much work there is. So, we spent around a year going through artists who'd get on board, produce sketches and other non-production level art and then disappear forever. The art of KS is very inconsistent and we knew from the start it would be. See many other replies I've made about writing for insight to why we chose to work like this. I didn't work as an artist, but as far as I understand, the artists did their best to keep some minimum level of stylistic continuity, same as us writers. It's like imitating any characteristic of another person, takes a fair bit of effort. 4LS had 8 artists for KS, plus a number of those who flaked out like I described above, so I don't count them.

You didn't ask, maybe because of the built-in prejudice towards writing most people have, but yeah we had some challenges finding writing staff too.

Just asking, but between blue123 and NicolArmarfi, who did the most work on the music and what brand piano did they use?

Nicol composed something like 80% of the soundtrack, so he did by far the most work on the music.

Rice-chan wrote:what brand piano did they use?

When I did KS I didn't record anything, it was all synthesized. The piano sounds I used were mostly the Garritan piano sounds that came with Finale.

Question 1 - Music - directed to NicolArmarfi:
The music that plays in main menu is called "Wiosna", which is a Polish word for spring. Since an overwhelming majority of song titles are in English (few French, few gibberish), what made you use a word from such an unknown language for such an important song? I mean - it's kinda the main theme. (Been curious, since it's my language and you don't seem to be Polish yourself.)

Question 2 - Writing - directed to writers and everyone else who might know:
I'm curious who wrote which path, who helped with which path...
Suriko has tagged herself as Lilly Writer and Hanako Co-Writer here on the forums, so I was curious about the others, especially Aura, since she's still active after all those years.
Also was there a main writer for Act 1?

erundil wrote:Question 1 - Music - directed to NicolArmarfi:
The music that plays in main menu is called "Wiosna", which is a Polish word for spring. Since an overwhelming majority of song titles are in English (few French, few gibberish), what made you use a word from such an unknown language for such an important song?

I'm a huge fan of Chopin! I don't think it's an exaggeration to say he's my favourite musician/composer. I've always really liked a Chopin song called Wiosna, so I wanted to give him a shoutout by naming one of my own tracks after it. In fact, a few months ago I actually wrote a set of 10 variations on the Chopin Wiosna.

erundil wrote:Question 2 - Writing - directed to writers and everyone else who might know:
I'm curious who wrote which path, who helped with which path...
Suriko has tagged herself as Lilly Writer and Hanako Co-Writer here on the forums, so I was curious about the others, especially Aura, since she's still active after all those years.
Also was there a main writer for Act 1?

Shizune: A22
Emi: Hivemind
Hanako: crud and Suriko
Lilly: Suriko
Rin: me

I also planned Act 1 and wrote a lot of it but I wouldn't call myself "main writer". We all contributed a lot. A22 probably wrote the most in terms of wordcount, because Act 1 is somewhat Shizune-centric and the scenes he wrote were long.

(this is not my question, but from a perverted friend who's not on the forums )

"Will the artworks from the Dangerous Artbook be released on the shimmie? As I was unable to obtain a physical copy but I would like to see the pictures in a decent (not pictures of the book) quality"

... however, I'm also in agreement with her in wondering if they'll be put on the Shimmie. I know that image 4210 is from the artbook, so there's a possibility?

Sometimes some (guest) artists put their illustrations on pixiv/deviantart/blog and they might get crossposted on shimmie that way. This happened in the case of the image you mention, but as a general rule artbook illustrations won't be uploaded on shimmie.

This is probably gonna seem a bit out of left field (as it has little to do with the game itself), but may I ask where the reference for the Art Classroom came from?

Aura wrote:Sometimes some (guest) artists put their illustrations on pixiv/deviantart/blog and they might get crossposted on shimmie that way. This happened in the case of the image you mention, but as a general rule artbook illustrations won't be uploaded on shimmie.

So there will be no digital release?