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We don't know, and never will, because companies never talk about this kind of thing in public unless it goes to court. And believe me, it won't. Maybe Aroduc wanted too much money. Maybe SP are skinflints and gave an insultingly low offer. Maybe the folks over at Giga were not impressed that someone decided to work on the title without their permission, and told Sekai Project that he would not be acceptable to them. I figure the most likely explanation is Sekai Project was secretly negotiating for Baldr Sky at the same time Aroduc was secretly fan translating it. And that neither one knew what the other one was doing. So SP might have already inked a contract with another translator to work on the project. It's still fairly rotten for SP to not even straight up tell Aroduc 'sorry, we can't hire you' and subject him to the no-reply treatment. That's just straight up unprofessional. The no-reply treatment is fairly common in the world of business. If I submit my resume to a bunch of different places, I expect to not really hear back from places that have no interest. They just don't respond. I don't expect places that were actively talking to me to suddenly stop. If a company and I are talking, and they decide 'this isn't going to work out, we don't think we want to hire you after all', but they've already started talking to me, or I've already had an interview? Very bad form to simply start stonewalling. Honestly, I get the feeling that Sekai Project's troubles almost all seem to stem from the unprofessional way they seem to be handling public relations and communication. This issue was never going to make Aroduc happy (his work on a game he didn't even like is now wasted), but blowing him off is just stupid and short-sighted. What if they want to work with him in the future? Likewise, all the controversy over will-they-won't-they on whether their recent announcements will get adult releases. If you take one of their twitter comments at face value, the only reason they didn't announce the adult versions was time constraints. Okay, so why haven't they since? Why have we been left to read the tea leaves, and try to read into statements like "well this game was explicitly announced for Denpasoft and Steam, this other game was only announced for Steam". They said they'd have news to share at AX about Maitetsu uncensored; they said the reason they didn't reveal it there was they ran out of time at the panel. Then why didn't they announce it at Otacon? Or online? So either they lied, or they were telling the truth and somehow something came up. If they lied, and have no plans to make any such announcements and are simply trying to shut people up - this is terribly unprofessional, and makes them look bad, and makes people not trust them. If they were telling the truth, then they are simply incompetent at public relations, they're so bad that they can't even keep track of the things they said they'd announce, or they commit to announcing info they really intend to announce but then it turns out they can't. Either way I think SP would do well to get this under control. They're generating a LOT of ill will towards themselves unnecessarily. Even if the answers are "no adult versions of games X, Y, and Z for now, sorry, we tried" - telling the truth would hurt less than this.

Moogy, Conjueror, etc all publicly congratulated Aroduc as soon as Baldr Sky's localization was announced. Doddler was part of his team, but didn't know anything about the licensing. Furthermore, Aroduc said: So it seems obvious that they were in communication about it, and that he was working on it was an open secret within the VN industry. He likely asked around about getting it licensed at some point. And Aginyan said yesterday: Not that there was one or work had already begun. It's silly to take these at anything other than face value, especially if SP isn't denying any of it.

Damn, guys, I didn't manage to upload an images, the link to Minimum Formatting Guidelines doesn't work. Clicking on Insert other media and linking an image also useless. Help me with it) Project Introduction Name: One Day in London Developer: Owl Studio Platforms: PC, mobile Engine: Unity VNDB Page: here Languages: EN/RU Stores Steam (1st+2nd episodes): http://goo.gl/4orJns Google Play (1st episode): http://goo.gl/LutSra Gameplay video: The main characteristic of a visual novel game is achieving immersion by giving the player the ability to influence the story through choices. Every decision, every action the player-reader takes can drastically change the course of the story. The smallest detail can turn out to have an important role to play. In One Day In London you will solve puzzles, perform magical rituals, and carry out special tasks. A sophisticated achievement system will hint at alternative storylines, and a user-friendly save system allows you to move freely within this wonderful story to explore all possible branches. Main features: nonlinear narrative, dozens of possible branching storylines; several unique endings to the story you create yourself; interactive gameplay, mini-games, quests; memorable and well-written characters; luxurious graphics, parallax, animated cut-scenes; gorgeous soundtrack completely immerses you into the game; new episodes released regularly. The story continues! The plot: The story is set in the 19th century England during Queen Victoria’s reign. Our main hero is a bored descendant of an aristocratic family who is fascinated by the occult. He becomes an initiate of a secret society by way of a friend’s invitation – and unexpectedly finds that legends are real. He faces the frightening underworld and becomes an unwilling participant in a series of weird events, sudden deaths, and underhanded machinations among humans, demons, and mystical creatures. Of course, a story can’t be complete without a mysterious lady whose past is shrouded in darkness… What outcome awaits our hero? Only time knows… Time and the player’s choice. Disclaimer: The administration is not responsible for accidental summoning of any supernatural creature during the game. Progress 2 episodes is done, currently we are working on continue Contacts. Feel free to PM here: Fb: https://www.facebook.com/One-day-in-London Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onedayinlondonnovel/ Website:http://owl-studio.net/en/project/one-day-london Twitter: https://twitter.com/@OwlStudiogames

As this thread, which should properly be titled "Making Shit Up", continues, since we now have some factual inaccuracy to go along with our baseless theorizing, I'm just jumping in here to correct the former. As you can see from their wikipedia page if you take the trouble to count, Sekai Project has published 64 games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekai_Project#Published_games As you can see from their Kickstarter created page, Sekai Project has created 12 Kickstarters, of which 11 were for games, not all of which are included in the above tally of 64 games because one failed and some are not completed yet, and two of which (WEE and Grisaia) are counted twice in the above since they subsumed multiple releases: https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/sekaiproject/created Carry on making shit up, but please do try to restrain yourself to wild hypotheses about companies' and people's motives and their NDA-covered contractual obligations, rather than about easily verifiable matters of fact.

I'd rather have them be a massive pervert than scream every time they see a nipple.

Bitch please https://vndb.org/v15603

I can just imagine an H-scene going like this

Hello everybody! We are small, but pretty skilled in gamedev sphere team of indie developers. We are kind of addicted to Visual Novels, so our 1st huge project is a visual novel called One Day in London. you can check it out here in this topic on Fuwa: We want as much honest feedback about our project from the real VN lovers as you can give us. Cause we want to create a really interesting thing, not just an ordinary Sh*t. But we guess every developer dreams about the same, so you are the most skilled judges in this question. Thx and have a nice day everybody)

New avatar.

Any VN where characters "speak" something other than Japanese.

Baldr Sky Zero (mercenary outfit) Soul Link Kikan Bakumatsu Ibun Last Cavalier (militia/police in nineteenth century Japan) Gun Knight Girl Rakuen no Shugosha Gunjou no Sora wo Koete

SoniComi ... I'm doing okay hitting the circles during the shoots, but the clients do not understand my choice of outfits. I was picking them out, and there was a snail and COMPLEX MOTIVES. They just need to trust Cameraman-san, and it'll all be good.

It is. There is no inherent ability on Fuwanovel that allows users to childishly hide posts from the community merely because they don't wish to hear it. In fact there is no 'neg' ability on Fuwanovel whatsoever, and therefore nothing to dissuade you from speaking your mind (as long as it adheres to the rules.) Ergo, better.

http://fuwanovel.net/reviews/2016/09/02/supipara-chapter-01-spring-has-come/ Better late than never, right? I did not like this VN much, as some people who have talked to me recently about it may have noticed. I guess there's a reason it bombed in Japan, huh?

So, finally finished Tonoko's route in Haruka ni Aogi, Uruwashi no. I'm rather disappointed. It wasn't bad, but compared to Miyabi's route, it was really boring. When I read Miyabi's route, I couldn't stop until I was obligated, and I really enjoyed it. But for Tonoko's route, even if it wasn't bad, I just couldn't invest myself in it. Heck, the parts with the aircaft where so boring I skipped quite a number of lines. I didn't really like the way their relationship developed too, but I liked to have Tonoko's POV. But the biggest minus was: I LOVE LIDA (And Miyabi) TOO MUCH!!! Lida appeared only 4 times in Tonoko's route. T_T (Well, she is only a main character in Miyabi's route :/) Anyway, that's it. I hope Shino's route will be better. Bonus: I laughed so much when this happened (NSFW)

......Interesting situation I guess? Regardless I think Aroduc's post there could also serve as some sort of indirect confirmation that he didn't involved in Baldr Sky (And machosist as well for trying translating the game with the engine that he loathed so much). What I knew for now that even if the situation was favorable for Aroduc there, there's still long way there if we talking about Baldr Sky release here (Seinarukana was took 3 years to release after Aroduc was announced that he'll translate it). PS - Looks like Overwatch was quite addictive, now that Aroduc use it as stress reliever after Original Ren here (Not that I knew about it).

According to proper etiquette fork is supposed to be in left hand and knife in right when you eat. I can understand why left handed people change it but it is "wrong". I'm right handed but I still use some things with my left for example my phone.

If my Heart had Wings sounds pretty suitable. I would also recommend Karakara. Both of these things have a rather relaxing atmosphere and cute art, if that's what you want. IMMHW is longer, while Karakara can be finished in a few hours at most. And if you end up getting If my Heart had Wings, make sure you install the restoration patch.

I've started playing vn like only yesterday , currently playing koi to senkyo to chocolate.

Finished Kokoro's route in Remember11, ending was ?????????, I haven't gotten all of Kokoro's Bad Ends, but there was a particular one that was executed quite well imo. Kokoro's usually a 'think positive! you have to believe!' type of protagonist when the chips are down, and so it was just great to see her finally give up, curse the world, and laugh hysterically as her impending doom arrived in one particular end. Chills. Starting Satoru's route soon^tm. Very interested in what the big mystery is. And goddamn the half n' half dual narrative, now I feel the need to reread Kokoro's route while reading Satarou's since they are opposite sides of the coin

The dubs don't sound so bad but we all can be weabs' and enjoy the Jap dubs more.

The protagonist is part of the military in eden*, but most of the VN doesn't take place in a military facility. Still might be worth checking out, I dunno.

Isn't that basically humanity at the moment though? Or at least western culture since I can't comment on things that happen in other languages and cultures. Also as for the topic, while it sucks that this guy spent a bunch of time translating the game and hes not getting anything out of it, I don't see anything that SP did necessarily. Maybe they could have given him a heads up before hand to tell him they were licensing the game and weren't interested in hiring him for the translation or couldn't due to something Giga wanted or whatever the case is, but maybe they didn't know until recently? I mean I just don't see a way this is all SP's fault.

This whole situation is a fiasco of gigantic proportions. Aroduc is an experienced, fast and reliable translator with multiple gameplay VNs released officially, not to mention whatever technical work has already been done by his team - definitely the correct person to do the job. His post insinuates that SP was aware of ongoing translation beforehand and specifically calls the offer they got "grossly inadequate". Given the fact that he worked with JAST on multiple occasions I suppose he's well aware what's the payment rate in the VN industry and I highly doubt there exist some large discrepancies between different companies. I think that SP hoped for quick buyout knowing that after official announcement he'll have to drop the project but didn't expect him not to accept said "grossly inadequate" recompensation they offered. Rest is history. One way of another SP has a 4+MB long behemoth on its plate. I wonder if we'll see a return of Clannad situation - throwing all available people at it and letting other projects grind to a halt. I expect delays, lots of them.

Maybe True Remembrance and Higanbana here? For explanation, Higanbana maybe had same bad art as Umineko and Higurashi (Well, it's Ryuukishi art after all), but if you knew how popular both of Higurashi and Umineko were, at least you could expect that it will be good (Hopefully). True Remembrance was short story about how some sort of memory deleter live (Hard to explain) with his patient. Both of those was translated of course. Hope it'll help you.

that click bait title lol

well rip fucking pu you will be dearly missed, just not by the tornado

Well, this is rather putting into the TOS and enforcing more something that existed already. Video makers have had videos de-monetized before because of their topics, such as the Israel-Palestine conflict or the genocides in Rwanda. That's the kind of content that gets booted out, not actually questionable content like people promoting sexual harassment or w/e. But that only follows the tacit rule of the media, which is to never displease the advertisers. Which IS concerning for video makers, of course. But that's just one of the consequences of having just two platforms viable for getting exposure when you're a professional video maker, both of which are run by huge privately owned companies. There's no easy solution. Making a video sharing platform involves fairly huge costs, after all, so something run by a non-profit or self-organized seems unlikely to come out in the near future (and I don't believe in the liberal bullshit that concurrency b/w private companies will make things better). The solution, which is already emerging anyway, is for video makers to find alternative ways of funding their work, such as patreon. Most people who don't make literally millions of hits on youtube make most of their money through crowdfunding already. And those who make millions of hits are already doing consensual content that pleases advertisers anyway.

Studying Japanese is only hard during the first few months, after that its all easy and worth it if you like reading VN, LN and other stuff.

Then it’s just that the business arrangement/opportunity is no longer desirable. Happens all the time in any industry. People who no longer get paid sufficiently walk away, it happens in sport, office workers, and content creators. Maybe demand will result in another platform being built. Competition is always good I'm quite surprised there's so few options out there.

If you consider single heroine tag at VNDB, maybe Saya no Uta (Quite disturbing though). And if you want patiently waiting for translation, Bishoujo Mangekyou should be quite similar to Furifure there (Except the single heroine was vampire and quite dominant there). Hope it'll help you.

Thanks, I appreciate it! Feel free to let me know if any of my tracks work in your project! In the meantime... My newest free tracks all live on my brand new SFX - Urban Ambience Page. They are: Street Ambience (1-6) City Park Ambience (1-3) http://soundimage.org/sfx-urban-ambience/ They might be nice in urban-based films, games (several of them loop,) interactive novels and other things. I hope they are helpful! :-) Eric

People usually have the wrong view of learning Japanese for visual novels: You don't learn Japanese so you can read untranslated visual novels. Instead you read untranslated visual novels as an excercise for learning Japanese. So you don't waste your time on reading porn light fiction anymore, you spend your valuable spare time for something useful and educational and still have fun at the same time. Hint: Might also help to convince your parents to buy you tons of eroge...

https://twitter.com/arata50/status/770281789482897408

God dammit. I knew the day would come. I'd get to three thousand posts and I'd have bugger all to say. That means I need to come up with something. That does, unfortunately, also mean that effort on my part will be required; effort which I'm simply not willing to contribute. So here's the deal. You come up with something for me to do. Perhaps you'd be interested on my thoughts on a particular topic? Perhaps you'd like me to read something for you?* Perhaps you'd like me to send money your way? Yeah sure, I'd like a lot of things too. You can ask; nothing wrong with that. I'll just laugh at your request if I deem it stupid; or unnecessary, or useless, or strange, or something of the sort. Additionally, free of charge, you can ask for a "love-filled" PM which I'll absolutely send your way. It'll thenceforward be used to harass you whenever the mood strikes. *If you want a free sample of what to expect, the video******* below has me reading this very post. http://picosong.com/zLYL/ *******Not a video.

My translation capabilities excel. http://picosong.com/zLcV/ Don't mind the spelling. I didn't either.

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