Darklord Rooke

Keep in mind that I have no knowledge of fighting games here, but how would Blazblue fare? VNDB considers it a VN and it seems like it could compete with the bigger name titles?

Top interview. And that was some real good interviewing Ren, there were a lot of good/tough questions asked. This is probably my favourite interview of yours because you dive right into the uncomfortable stuff. It produced some quality information :3

Healing manga. I think the Japanese term is... Iyashikei? Definitely my favourite genre. As for more series like it, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou and Aria are my favourites but they don't contain romance.

I’m glad our derailing of your thread helped out in some way XD Looking forward to your future podcasts :3

Will there, or will there not be WWE style wrestling between you and Babiker as the two of you compete for supremacy? I'm looking forward to it :3 Zaka won’t appreciate me talking for Tay again, but Tay already has plans for that. Both for user generated content and an increased focus on the community in the blog, it’s all part of his massive overhaul… thingy. Well, it was part of his plans back in July anyway.

Ah rants, thank you! The one thing I truly don’t get enough of when I surf the internet. Thank you for making this podcast and filling that gaping void in my internet experience. But seriously I wish you luck.

Hmmm… I think it would be more accurate to call this a LN in first person present rather than a LN in a VN style. I entered this thread expecting some sort of amalgamation between the mediums, and was a little disappointed. VNs don’t own the first person present style (The Hunger Games was written in this style, for example) and not all VNs are written in first person present. You’re basically writing a novel, which is admirable, but there’s no need to confuse people with such a vague connection to the VN medium. That being said congratulations. I wish you luck with not only its completion, but eventually turning it into a kickass VN.

I think "The Power That Is" would be more accurate

Whaaaaaaa? No corners? What kind of party is this?

The mods have had to put up with much disrespect and abuse while managing the forums, often with little or no direction from the powers that be. It must have been a confusing and frustrating experience. Kudos to the mods. And now I’ll do what I do at every party I go to, which is find a quiet corner and read :3

[10:26:22 AM] SolidBatman: WAIT [10:26:33 AM] SolidBatman: TELL KENDJIN TO FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN [10:27:13 AM] Rooke: He posted it on the forum. Tell him yourself XD [10:31:13 AM] SolidBatman: i cant [10:31:19 AM] SolidBatman: im not allowed to speak out anymore Post delivered :3

Thank you for removing it before SB won

I signed up after this and completely missed it. Awesome piece of satire which deserves to be resurrected :3

It's not that my figures are incorrect, they're outdated. I've been away from the scene for a few months. ImoPara’s done very well for a eroge title, I wish story games would sell this well… Secondly, indie VNs usually sell between 15 to 20 dollars. And they sell similar numbers despite their much lower cost of production, their much worse art, and their far smaller need to move significant numbers. Some indie VNs with gameplay sell for more than $20, more like $25, and they sell better than pure VNs even at a higher price point. And this is with pretty poor production values (bad art, awkward writing, outdated gameplay system etc etc.) It has to do with your implication that MG releases a decent numbers of story titles, which they do not. The list I posted above is their complete list of releases from 2014, 10 releases, 8 of them are nukige. They may have a lot of games in the works, but the games you listed are easily more than a year's worth of games. They are not doing “good” because they’ve had to drift away from what they want to release to survive. If they were doing good they’d be in a financial position to release the games they like. MG used to release predominantly story based titles, fast-forward to today and they’ve been forced to rush out mostly nukige because they sell better and the translators can burn through it in a few weeks and bring in some money. They’re alive, but hardly comfortable, and only because they release a boatload of sex to rake in cheap dough. They're hardly building a mountain of profits from it though. I doubt very much MG is the most stable of the three. JAST can rely on J-List to prop it up, and if you look at JAST’s lineup you can see that Peter Payne releases only stuff he wants to. He can take his time because he has extra money to rely on. So you have JAST who picks their releases and aren’t pressured for time vs MG who are forced into releasing dodgy games and have been forced to rush games out the door…umm, let’s just say “in an undesired state".

MG mostly pumped out quickly translated nukige because that was the only way they could stay afloat. They release the occasional story VN, but the translators also burn through nukige at a great pace because they need to make a buck in a fairly non-profitable industry. Most of MG's partners are nukige companies, and some of their new partners include doujin level nukige studios interested in their titles being released in the West for obvious reasons. Before Steam came into the picture MG wasn't doing all that great. I have no idea how much Steam has changed things though. EDIT: Sorry about that, my internet broke halfway through my message. I was going to continue by saying that it's not really a first class portfolio and it’s bloated with poorly translated (and often bad) nukige. Technically interest from dodgy nukige companies is still interest, but I don’t think that was what Karakkan meant.

1999… weren’t we all in our bunkers crying, clinging to the closest agreeable stranger because we all knew the world was about to end? Not that I was in one of course. Just people. In general. Should our message to the mods be 1999 themed? If so I’d have to advise them to abandon their duties, go wild and live life before the world descends into a harsh, post-apocalyptic wasteland…

This may change in the future. From my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong,) Fuwa's blog has been limited by a lack of writers and a lack of a clear direction rather than any sort of tradition.

Never mind, found it. Very interesting. I didn't know it was such an issue. https://solidbatman1.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/mortal-vn-engine-annoyances-part-one/