news does travel fast
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:17 am
Less than 4 hours of releasing full version, already got mentioned on a Chinese news site. Congratulations.
Whoever wrote this article made some mistakes, oh well.
here is my rough translation:
Title: First Galgame from Europe and America(well, "Europe and America" can mean the west), Katawa Shoujo's full version finally released
Since 2007, 21 volunteers from all over the world came together via 4chan created a virtual game studio Four Leaf Studios to develop 《片轮少女》（かたわ少女，Katawa Shoujo）. After 5 years of development, this game's full version has been released today.
Katawa Shoujo used typical Japanese galgame model to express itself, for example, it used background music, character spirit and text to tell a story.
Everything in the game, including art assets, music, screenplay etc. were all created by members of Four Leaf Studios. Also this game itself is free to play, does not have any fee. Thanks to the developing team's language background, game's full version supports English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, German, Hungarian and Chinese.
April 2009, this game released act one's content as demo. Due to it's special topic(all characters are disabled including main character), it has caused a stir and controversy. Of course, the game's main theme is very positive, the disabled characters are meant to be loved rather than exploited.
Because it's a galgame, Katawa Shoujo inevitably have some adult content. But the developers created a switch for people to turn off such content( for example, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 or The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim both have adult content and have a rating of 18+ or M+ in Europe and America). Because Katawa Shoujo is released for free via the internet, it does not have to go through normal publishing channels. It will not receive a rating from organizations such as ESRB or PEGI, but the developing team consciously labeled age requirement.
http://game.chinanews.com/netgame/01/20 ... 18741.html
Whoever wrote this article made some mistakes, oh well.
here is my rough translation:
Title: First Galgame from Europe and America(well, "Europe and America" can mean the west), Katawa Shoujo's full version finally released
Since 2007, 21 volunteers from all over the world came together via 4chan created a virtual game studio Four Leaf Studios to develop 《片轮少女》（かたわ少女，Katawa Shoujo）. After 5 years of development, this game's full version has been released today.
Katawa Shoujo used typical Japanese galgame model to express itself, for example, it used background music, character spirit and text to tell a story.
Everything in the game, including art assets, music, screenplay etc. were all created by members of Four Leaf Studios. Also this game itself is free to play, does not have any fee. Thanks to the developing team's language background, game's full version supports English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, German, Hungarian and Chinese.
April 2009, this game released act one's content as demo. Due to it's special topic(all characters are disabled including main character), it has caused a stir and controversy. Of course, the game's main theme is very positive, the disabled characters are meant to be loved rather than exploited.
Because it's a galgame, Katawa Shoujo inevitably have some adult content. But the developers created a switch for people to turn off such content( for example, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 or The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim both have adult content and have a rating of 18+ or M+ in Europe and America). Because Katawa Shoujo is released for free via the internet, it does not have to go through normal publishing channels. It will not receive a rating from organizations such as ESRB or PEGI, but the developing team consciously labeled age requirement.
http://game.chinanews.com/netgame/01/20 ... 18741.html
