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こんにちは、英語で書くべきかな、とも思ったけど楽をして日本語で自己紹介します。 僕は日本人で19歳ですが、昨年大学入試に失敗しまして浪人生をやっております。上手くいけば今年の春に大学生になるはずです。 VNを英語でやれば、英語の勉強にも遊びにもなるんじゃないか　と思ったのがきっかけでこのサイトを見つけました。 VN自体は、18+が遊べるようになってまだ1年なので実はあんまりやったことないです；； 好きなジャンル？(どちらかといえば性癖かも）　　　百合　幼　スク水　かわいいは正義！ やったことあるVN D.C(1.2.3)　リトルバスターズ!　ものべの　いたいけな彼女　 プレイ中　こんねこ 　 　ロリコンしょたこん、が日本よりもタブー視されてるようなのが興味を引きますね。 特に二次規制されたくない僕としては、海外から日本の二次エロがどう見られてるのかってのは、気になる問題であります。 英語に慣れてなくて、まだこのサイトの使い方とかよくわかってないので何かしらやらかしてるかもしれませんが、仲良くしてくださるとうれしいです。 いちおう簡単な英語は読めます。書くのは苦手です；； -------------------------------------------------------- I study English at school,and not good at english;; 　I try to introduce myself in English. かくちゅ：Kakutyu I am from japan; I'm 19. 　Oneday I thought I can study English by playing tlanslated VN,and i found this site. I began to play VNs a year ago, so I know little about VN. Favorite: loli yuri Playing now: Konneko -------------------------------------------------------- 関係ない話ですけど　母語以外の発音、聞き取りって難しいですね。 For me,the words;see, she ,sea sounds same しー.　

I have nothing against OELVNs Of course there are some bad ones like Sunrider, Sakura and AJTilley, and I felt like all OELVNs were rubbish, until Sepia Tears regained my faith in this market The soon coming Black Sands and a few other OELVNs show promise, and I do hope that it gets better I won't dismiss an OELVN before trying it ever again.

Hello everyone, I am posting on behalf of DEVGRU-P. We're an American Visual Novel Development Team, and have a big release coming up next week. As a team, we very interested in putting our money back into the community, and want to help other developers get their projects off the ground and on Steam. As such, we are looking for Visual Novels that are currently early to midway in the development cycle, who are aiming for a commercial release in the future. Because we have worked with Valve on getting our game onto Steam, we have a pretty good handle on how to actually use Valve's software (SteamPipe) to handle game builds and keys and whatnot. Specifically, what we want to do is, Kickstarter -Pre Campaign advice, helping you pick a good funding amojnt, designing reward tiers. -Building the campaign, writing the pitch, laying it out to make an attractive and professional looking campaign. -Contacting gaming websites to drive traffic to your campaign. Steam -Building your Steam Greenlight page. -Submitting the game to Steam Greenlight (this costs $100 the first time an account submits to Greenlight, our account already has gone through the process, which our account has). -Managing customer questions on Steam, monitoring the page. -After the game has been approved by Valve, we'll build the Steam Store page, and handle actually getting the files on Valve's server. In addition, depending on the funding goals and our level of interest in the project, we would also be interested in footing some of the development costs. Our primary interests are in games that really set themselves apart concept wise, and bring something new to the genre. Specifically some general things we have an interest in, Comedy Military/War [BxG, GxG] (So no Yaoi) Non-Romance Games Please feel free to contact us with any questions, or to discuss working together on your project. If you want to make it easier, please let us know this about your project, How far along in the development process are you/When do you expect to finish? How much money do you need (at the very bare minimum) to make your game, and what do you plan on spending it on? Do you currently have any funding? Do you have a full team already? Does your team have much prior experience? Also we'd love to see the art you have so far, so that we can get a style idea. Thanks for your time! DEVGRU-P

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I'll stick with my eroge until I actually find an OELVN that is of the same quality as some of the VNs coming out of Japan.

Nice clickbait there

Ioruko here to share some fan art with you! I will be updating this topic when I finish a new piece of fan art! VN fan art: Mahoutsukai no yoru you can check out the process steps for this one here: http://ioruko.deviantart.com/art/Mahoyo-fan-art-process-593052599 Muv-Luv Alternative Fate/Stay Night These are the best I can present for the moment! If you liked them, you can check the rest of my art here: http://ioruko.deviantart.com/gallery Also I am not sure if I should post anime fan art on a visual novel forum, so I'll just post vn related pics

I actually laughed lel

Resident salt producer and pancake hater solidbatman posted on on his Tweeter account that he has been hospitalized as of Tuesday for excessive objects being shoved deep into his anal cavity. While news reports indicate that a single French man was seen attending his house the other weekend, no speculation has been addressed as to the connection between the mysterious colleague and the incident. Eye witness reports state that the man appeared to be in his mid twenties, and was seen spotting a sporty Muv-Luv t-shirt around the victim's home. Here is a predicted sketch of the individual: The 23-year-old solidbatman (or something close to that) did not provide a reason for the hospitalization or his current condition, but he stated that he will receive treatment so that he can recover his health. Well-known for starting the unban Run campaign, and for causing a massive amount of butt hurt feelings to all Key fans, solidbatman is a true pillar to this community. Truly a gripping moment. We all pray that he be safe in this time of mourning.

Completely and utterly useless I loved it throughly

He's probably fighting a winning Bat-tle against whatever ails him anyway. No way a mere disease would be able to bring down such an amount of salt.

Wow, just wow That art is just how I'd want my VNs to be drawn I'm REALLY looking forward to this I'll definetly be playing the demo Good luck, I'm expecting great things from you

This is an interesting topic to touch on. As an OELVN developer myself, you might consider my opinion biased, but personally, I always try to support other developers if I see them making an effort at delivering a quality product. With subjectivity aside, I think the biggest reason OELVNs aren't as well received as Japanese VNs is because they haven't been around as long. Most people are already accustomed to a certain style, and straying from that is understandably off-putting. Either the developers try too hard at mimicking Japanese VNs, or they're too different. As a result, it's hard for most readers to swallow them without grimacing. There's simply no way to satisfy everyone, but it's always disheartening to see people discredit OELVNs despite the hard work and effort that's been put into them by the developers. (Some, at least) What I consider a "quality" product is one that presents itself professionally. What I consider a "quality" piece of work is when it's able to convey a message across effectively. It's like any book you come across: most of them aren't from well known authors like Stephen King or J.R.R Tolkien, but there are those few that can be as equally as gripping—you were drawn in by its presentation (its cover/summary), and understood its message (its content). I'm positive OELVNs will gain traction someday and be as popular as Japanese VNs. Some people just have to understand that Stephen King doesn't always make quality stories just because he's Stephen King. And that the unknown author doesn't always make bad stories because he's an unknown author.

おはよ！Welcome to Fuwa, hope you have a great time here with us if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask around for help

This is true, OELVNS haven't caught up quality wise to eroges and i think that's the main reason people tend to look down on it..they're progressing but are not quite there yet. Still I support the OELVN scene exactly because i believe it had potential and can be really good aswell. So more than "Hating" OELVNS i think it's more like people are waiting for them to get better and progress along the japanese ones and for that they'll need to think and take it more seriously and not just as mere hobby or project, they'll need to have great writers and artists, music comoposers and put all the work like japanese publishers do. That will earn them money and revenue and with that base they'll be able to fund their next bigger and better one and so on and so forth but there has to be that first step into it for everything to work out. That's not to say though that there are not great OELVNS out there because there are but most are not and until something changes i don't think we'll be seein those many great OELVNS as often as we'd like to

Welcome to the forums! Hope you enjoy your stay! I'm supposed to be studying for a tomorrow's math test Have a moe:

"Favorite, yuri."　Good choice, I like you! Welcome to the forum, nice to meet you よろしくね！

Made some progress in Lucy The year is 2050, the era of Androids. You spend a good first 30 minutes to an hour of this VN in the company of the protagonist You and his internal monologuing as he finds this broken down Android in the local junkyard about to be recycled. On a whim, he decides to take her- no, it- home. Right off the bat it's established that You's indifferent to Androids. He understands that robots are just robots. They're tools to be used to make human life more convenient. Nothing more, nothing less. Falling in love with an Android would be like falling in love with your smartphone or computer. He'll spend a good amount of time reiterating this belief, but we all know what'll end up happening amirite So here's this broken-down-inactive-but-attractive-looking-silver-haired-female Android sitting around lifeless in his room. Hmmm, low on battery power? Let's try plugging in this power cord through its nose! (The VN will literally give you a choice of whether to do that or not ). After a bit of fumbling around, You manages to properly plug in and power on the Android and begins some Q&A. Name? The Android responds with a very, VERY typical female robot-sounding voice, "Lucy Valentine PIM-001". You spends a bit more time glossing over the Lucy's condition- she's apparently flat chested and in dire need of repairs since she's basically just a "talking tin can" in her current state so he decides he will to bring her to a repair shop the next day. So, the next day, after nearly being strangled to death when he told Lucy to grab onto him so he can piggyback-ride her to the repair shop, they make their departure. On the way, he awes at the fact that Lucy feels so lifelike, so human. Pfft. Already going soft on your anti-robot stance, You?! Blah blah blah, he makes small talk with the repairman and decides to cough up the dough for Lucy's repairs, tells her to behave, and leaves for school. At school we meet You's best friend and robot fanatic, "Dr. Gear", and he tells him about his finding Lucy. Dr. Gear quickly offers him a word of advice, "Humans are humans, and robots are robots. You should never forget this boundary between them". After school You heads back to the repair shop to pick up Lucy. He is greeted by a pleasant sounding, non-robotic female voice behind him, and turns around. The owner of that voice? You bet! It's his imouto! Jk Jk, it's Lucy, all fixed up, full of life and brimming with energy, and I'm totally ready to enjoy the rest of this VN

Yes, but I posted a version of that image first, which means everyone who uses anything similar to it from now on must credit me, else I will act like a petulant salty child about it

What kind of insane power level are we talking about here?!

You are completely correct in that I don't really care about Japanese people across the world who I have only engaged with through their written works, other than about said writing. If I spent time worrying about everyone, no matter if I had an emotional connection to them, I'd be hit with blow after emotional blow literally every day. Not caring about everyone is a healthy part of human nature. I completely agree that emptily wishing people well rings extremely hollow, which is why I didn't. If you have a problem with the social construct causing this well-wishing, though, you should probably find a more appropriate angle of attack than a headline on a third-rate news website.

That's sad to hear, hope he gets out of there soon

Those drawings are cancerous...I love it

Oh, this looks interesting. :3 For me, it's a big plus that it's not another 'fanservice' game. I'll also give the demo a try sometime soon, I'll be sure to let you know once I do! Good luck with everything in the meantime!

Well done Mitch, your artistic prowess has no match

The art and premise seems really intruiging, will give the demo a go sometime soon

Bydos, the Prodigy

Good ol' Marenovel? : P

good lord, where to start, where to start... ><

Please, he'll be fine. Know why?

Whoa whoa whoa there, are you trashing Magus (chronotrigger) and Miang? (Xenogears) Jokes aside, it looks worthwhile from a technical standpoint. though the translation does need serious work.

Yeah this does look pretty impressive, looking forward to that demo as well

What are you talking about? These be some top quality memes my friend.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! How dare you! It´s so awesome!

I think the problem with OELVNs is that they are too amateurish, I know that many people blame the "they just copy the japanese vns and setting" and yeah most of the time they do but how is it that one of most popular vns in the west if not the most popular is katawa shoujo a vn with a japanese tittle, the settings is in japan, with japanese characters, everything is "japanese" the thing is it has good writing and good music and this is where OELVNs fail to deliver (specially in the writing) I've seen a lot of people trying to do vns and they don't even have the story ready but they are asking for money to do it... (I've seen kickstarter projects doing this!) Again the problem is that in Japan vns are a business, good writers work for the industry of vns, is not just a simple hobby, there is money around it too here it is not...what would happen if a good writer wrote the plot for a vn and then you hire profesional artist to do the artwork and finally hire real musicians to make the music? Well that probably will never happen here but in japan it happens very often. Again, it can happen that amateurs do a good vn but it's the exception to the rule.

Huh... Welcome tu Fuwa! Like you I have little experience with english and these things are helping me to improve it. Anyway, I hope we get along and you enjoy you stay.

Welcome to Fuwa! There is much I would like to say but my mind is quite jumbled at the moment, so for now はじめまして! I hope you enjoy your stay

Praise Maeda, his stories are awesome, I hope he doesn't die

I think black sand was merely wondering about what would be your rate / price, since you don't have a website and are not talking about them in your first post. The fact that you're only aiming at commercial releases tell us that you are not really interested in publishing games that won't make a profit, so it'd be only natural for us to ask about how much such a service would cost us. Outsourcing a service for a price is always a risk for us dev, so we need to know if the ratio risk / benefit is good enough. If your goal is to eventually create a business out of this, we need to know why we should pick you over another publisher (or even over self publishing). Either a guarantee that you will bring results, or either a cheap price that makes the investment not something too risky.

Good idea, we should get one of those up. Today is when I finally formalized my idea of how this is going to work, so you're definitely right that we should get a team website out there. It's also the funding aspect, in that we'd be backing them monetarily, in addition to, or in lieu of, crowdfunding. I wouldn't expect someone to be giving up a large chunk of their revenue just for "advice", the goal here is creating a publishing group that is fair to developers, and doesn't wrangle them into exploitative contracts, a publisher by devs, for devs. Getting on Steam is, as long as you have a reasonable product, not terribly complex, it's making sure you keep the fanbase growing while you're working on the game, and not releasing to a bunch of people who have already lost interest.

Rather than giving you credit I'll give you

I only mention this because anyone can say "i can get you on steam" but that really means nothing and selling 15 to 35% of your revenue for such a thing is bonkers. I like seeing publishers bring their own well established market and press contacts to the table.If I am giving up 35% of my revenue, i need an over 50% return on investment for it to be worth the time.

Awesome. Speaking of Boku no Pico. I really like the first episode. I really hope someday they will really make a legit anime of Boku no pico.

Psh I have no taste so... It doesnt matter what happens guys. A miracle will happen guys, and all of your sadness will be completely undone when he just gets up and walks out of the hospital like it never happened, with no explanations

well, he is a great vn writer. i know thats subjective but he has written numerous well received works. would it be better if her wrote "Japanese, dark haired man hospitalized"? famous people are defined by their work, so its no wonder he would use something that defines the guy.

Maybe I'm just a jackass, but wishing somebody is well while using the tag "the great VN writer" makes me feel that you care nothing about him being an actual human being and care more about the fact that a guy who wrote some stories for Key doesn't die. Also, that tag seems rude. Rather than stating what he did in the actual post (write Clannad/Charlotte), the news report felt it important to state that in the title. To me, it's basically drawing attention from people for no reason when if they actually did know the guy and care about his well being, wouldn't need a title to tell us what he did. It just feels like the article is trying to draw useless "get well soon" responses from random fans. It just comes off wrong with the wording. Regardless, I hope things work out and he gets well soon.

Well hypothetically, if steam was to start selling the VNs they have available currently uncensored it would be quite interesting. It makes it possible for Mangagamer, Sekai Project and the likes to use steam even more actively when selling games. One problem they encounter is that the uncensored version of their game will simply sell more than the original version, simply because steam has a much bigger user base compared to their own homepage. If steam now allows them to release the other games they currently only have on their own homepages, it would be pretty good for them and for western VN comsumers. I do believe some companies that have so far been reluctant to release their games uncensored in the west would be more willing to do so if steam opened up to their games. I know one reason why steam doesn´t do it is linked to paypal´s policy, though they could simply make it so that the 18+ games cannot be purchased trhough paypal to eliminate that problem. Quite a lazy excuse to hide behind. Really though, this is something that they have been quite stern on for a long time and I doubt they will actually open up for serious uncensored sexual content on steam. It at least wont become a platform for uncensored VNs any time soon. Still, with releases like patchable Nekopara and compeltely uncensored kindered spirits, they are taking a step in the right direction.