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TheHivemind wrote:

Morello wrote:Did you guys expected that kinda of feedback? I mean, almost everybody really loving the game and even some people that are changing their lives after the experience. Or the game getting in a Top 10 by user reviews.

We expected that people would like the game--I, at least, did not expect the game to be quite this popular.

Guest wrote:Some of you visited 4chan before, have you visited recently ?

There are KS threads, they seem popular, lots of people just talk about feels, there are trolls too sadly. But I have seen quite a few posts where it seems KS really effected people. I know you guys know people are effected, but I think you would be suprised if you saw some of the posts I have seen.

cpl_crud wrote:

Guest wrote:Some of you visited 4chan before, have you visited recently ?

There are KS threads, they seem popular, lots of people just talk about feels, there are trolls too sadly. But I have seen quite a few posts where it seems KS really effected people. I know you guys know people are effected, but I think you would be suprised if you saw some of the posts I have seen.

I think you mean affected, but I suppose you aren't technically wrong there. It's always a fine line between the two. I think becuase we didn't directly take action agianst the people it has to be affected, no effected.

We often get cut-up images of the various posts on the IRC channel, and they seem to have an overwhelming number of good things to say about us. Feels good.

And there are always trolls; that's part of the internet.

Neon Vanguard wrote:Good afternoon.

So, some questions to ask. Hope you don't mind.

1. What was the average wordcount per route, including act one? All I know is that it's over 10,000 words, as Cpl_Crud mentioned in his blog.

2. The answer will vary from person to person, but what seemed to be the most difficult aspect of creating a VN? The art, writing, music? Or simply communication, given the time differences?

3. This question depends on each writer, too. Was there much of a desire to make Hisao his own character, or were you more interested in keeping him slightly open-ended, so that the player would be able to relate to him more? I always found it odd how rarely he reflected on his past life. Not in the sense of his happy happy fun fun life before four months in the hospital, I mean like his early childhood. He hardly even mentions his parents, as much as they piss him off.

4. Aura, you mentioned in a blog post that the team approached the VN with some unrealistic expectations at first. What kind of expectations were these, exactly? About the time required to build it, the quality of the product... ?

anarki wrote:Third round, still hoping for an answer!

Are there plans for a script/support for unofficial translations?

(Yes I've read the translator topic, I'd like to know if there were any unpublished development in this topic)

Guest wrote:How do you pronounce some of the names ?

I thought Hisao was Hi-so. Apparently its not. Apparently shi-zoo-n is also wrong.

DaLadybugMan wrote:Hey, guys! Congratulations on the game! It's clear that it really impacted a lot of people, and I'm sure that it's a great feeling to know that those five years weren't spent in vain. Anyway, I naturally had a few questions.

1. Seeing Misha's Bush/Cheney 2004 shirt made me realize that I didn't know what year the game was set (obviously, it couldn't have been set earlier than the 2004 election season), and the fact that the development process took place over multiple years doesn't help. I was wondering if you have an idea of what year the events of the game take place, or if it's intentionally left ambiguous.

2. As a semi-related question, where exactly did Misha obtain said Bush/Cheney shirt? I don't imagine there's a lot of overseas campaigning :D

3. One thing that really stood out to me about the game was the interesting side characters (except Hideaki, who I personally found kind of dull). I was wondering, if you didn't have to worry about story and pacing restrictions, which side character (i.e., apart from the main six girls) you'd like to have been able to explore more in-depth within the game.

4. Were there any characters who received a fair amount of development that didn't make it into the game as anything more than a cameo (like the rest of Hisao's classmates, for example)?

5. Related to the last two points, which character had the most undisplayed development: backstory, personality, desires, and other miscellaneous things that just didn't make it into the game because it ultimately wasn't important?