Darklord Rooke

If Fuwa is able to tie VNs to mediums that are well-known and don't have many negative stigmas, then we may be able to get to people before their views are tainted and positively influence people's first experience with the medium (while also opening OELVN developers up to new ideas which exist outside the medium...)

Ahahaha, What an awesome summary XD Just get a walkthrough. If you're grinding you're doing it wrong EDIT: Here you go. This has a guide for the first 14 moves only (getting you the third action fan) and tips to help you with the rest of the game. http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/936089-sengoku-rance/faqs/60751

I'm in love. http://www.siliconera.com/2015/01/25/its-now-easy-to-create-visual-novels-in-doom/

Release Dates: America - 10th March Europe - 13th March http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-01-23-deadly-premonition-devs-visual-novel-rpg-tokyo-twilight-ghost-hunters-dated-for-europe

It's certainly rare to leave honorifics in outside of the anime and manga industries, although there are a few cases where it is done quite successfully. It will generally be done in fiction by those translators who want to keep the writing style of the original author in tact and therefore cannot show the relationship in any other way. In these works you'll generally have long appendixes with 100 or so translator notes providing the reader with in depth explanations. So the term will be translated, just in the translation notes, and they're left in the work themselves to provide a subtlety unable to be obtained without fiddling with the style of the original work. Pevear and Volohnsky would leave paragraphs of "War and Peace" in French, with translations provided in the footnotes. It's not lazy, they merely wanted to convey an authenticity for those looking for it. That being said the anime and manga industries ARE generally lazy and unfortunately every translation gets tarnished with the same brush. That is, leaving honorifics in gets a bad rap when there ARE valid reasons for its inclusion.

Dr. Lutz: May I ask you something? Why do you insist on referring to yourself in the third person? It is intensely irritating! Hercule Poirot: Because, Doctor Lutz, it helps Poirot achieve a healthy distance from his genius.

There are many different reasons. One of which is that some people take a lot of pride in their work, so even if they ARE doing it for free they want it to be of decent quality. I should probably use an example. Many months ago I was head editor for a certain project and I made the test for editing positions VERY hard. Most people who rock up to apply for an editor's position are really trying to become a proof-reader, and I immediately dismissed all of them. When the leader of the group would hire editors indiscriminately I would get annoyed. In the 3 months I spent looking for other editors I found 1 other person I was happy with, and he was damn good. The reason for this is I'm passionate about writing and the English language. REALLY passionate. I've spent the last 10 years studying how authors write and how they build their style, and I don't like reading prose that is... dodgy. So... I wouldn't be able to work on a project unless it maintained a certain standard, it would just be disappointing and I wouldn't be able to stand it. Because of this I put in place high standards for the editing team that I KNOW pissed off people. There's another reason and that is reputation. If translators are looking to build a career in the future, I'm sure they wouldn't want people bringing down the quality of their project and affecting their reputation. The same applied to me as well. As a person who's looking to build a career in writing, and maybe VN development, I wouldn't want people bringing (way) down the quality of edits on a project I'm working on.

Heh, I'm still in awe of the huge amount of tolerance you possess.

Suchet's Poirot refers to himself in the third person. Makes him seem more arrogant and charming.

I do that with games but not with anime. That being said I hardly watch anime any more so...

Ahahaha XD Tay's a nice man to treat that PM seriously. If a person asks "someone-they-hate" for help on school related matters, and if that person also takes the time to emphasise that hatred during their "plea for help" he's either a) trolling or b ) an idiot. I suspect it was the former.

Yep, I agree with you. The visual novel scene in the west has its roots in eroge so the results are not surprising, but STEAM is going to broaden the fanbase which is a good thing.

It doesn't really worry me. I sometimes speak in the third person to a certain member of the forum because it ticks them off The translation team having little knowledge of writing "style" makes it a very hard read for me, and so I stay away from it. There was also a thread on Reddit which raised questions over the translation accuracy, but I have no knowledge of that.

Don't be sad Flutterz, wearing glasses is plenty of fun. Driving off on a cold, cold morning only to have your glasses fog up when you're barreling down the highway is very entertaining and not at all dangerous. Trying to shave after a nice hot shower only to find you can't wear your glasses due to fog-related shenanigans is also amusing and not annoying at all....

Congratulations guys!

I'd talk to Clephas to see if his project is dead and go from there. He might have a bunch of stuff already translated, for example. https://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/1064-ikusa-megami-zero-a-project/

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121106/08350120946/budweiser-asks-paramount-to-remove-their-beer-movie-flight.shtml

Hmmm... I don't think I've seen a VN that has a lot of important choices in the story, VNs tend to make up for that with bigger deviations to the storylines (routes.) I suppose it would depend on your definition of "a lot." Because VNs have such significant deviations resulting from your choices, it tends to make having a lot of important choices difficult (aka nearly impossible.)

On the contrary, I believe the legitimacy of the mangaka you’re working with relates to the very essence of this thread. Your trustworthyness relates to the legitimacy of your mangaka colleague which in turn relates to the very essence of this thread. Your past behaviour relates to your trustworthiness which relates to the legitimacy of your mangaka colleague which relates to the very essence of this thread. Whether you wish to ignore such concerns is up to you, but I don’t believe labelling a ton of posts on this thread as “trolling” is very accurate. I also disagree that they are unrelated to the subject matter at hand. You could have stopped the comments on the first page. People want to see proof this time and you're squirming your way out of answering *shrugs*

It's not hard to understand people's reluctance when you take into consideration your past behaviour, i.e once upon a time certain people took your pure intentions at face value and got burnt. Because of this there is a certain reluctance to take your words at face value again. This is the way of the world - actions leading to consequences. Your previous actions have caused a lack of trust and this lack of trust has led to certain accusations. Entertaining, no? Anyway, I personally think you'd be an idiot to pull the same stupidity twice so I'm keeping an open mind here. Unfortunately the interview doesn't interest me (I'm interested in the writing process, but not so much the artistic side) but best of luck to those involved. Also, why aren't you posting this on lemma...? If you want people to believe you have a Japanese mangaka involved you'll have to show some iron-clad proof at some stage. And yes that's because people don't trust you. And yes that's your own fault.

Create a visual novel in 4 months, or create a demo and launch a funding campaign on Kickstarter in 4 months? If it's the former then I'd be worried about the quality (either that or it'd be really short,) if it's the latter then that sounds about right. I don't know whether you have a Japanese mangaka on board or not, but I'll be eager to see you actually finish something Omni. Maybe if you had concentrated on your VNs instead of launching that silly campaign against Tay, you'd have produced something by now? Good luck with your RPG (I'm more interested in your RPG than the VN to be honest. Never been too fussed about art style.)

I'm so tired I misread "survey" in the title as "scurvy" ...

@sub-zer0 - Do you like turn-based strategy games more than SRPGs or vice versa?