Tay

Are you using the patch to install the game, or are you installing using the Japanese files only? EDIT: Is the installer in Japanese or English?

Haven't found it yet, but I seem to remember some of it nonetheless. Walk me through what you've done so far (including where the various files are on your hard drive) from the start.

hrm. Let me see if I can find that guide again...

The AstralAir TL project needs translators (or TLers who are willing to help out temporarily): (link) If you're interested, contact information for the team can be found here. VNDB

I'm sticking with my "gateway drug" approach. After all, a rising tide lifts all sh -- *Looks at Rooke* *makes a mildly rude gesture* -- nevermind.

I can see something like this as a gateway drug. i.e. hooking would-be VN creators and slowly leading them down the path towards Ren'Py.

Hey everybody, I've come up with some new, experimental site features. I'd love your feedback -- especially ways to use, improve, or expand upon the ideas. If you think a feature isn't helpful, please say so. Fuwazette: Two new/niche tools for following VN TL updates

Woah. Serious woah.

Um. Does size matter? Naw, jus' kiddin. Oh, I dunno. Maybe 250x250?

Nayleen -- ever patient -- has helped me set up a translation updates feed aggregator which I named "VNTL-Moon". I was wondering if anybody had some creative juices flowing and wanted to put together a logo for it! If you want to put something together and post it here, we'll be ever-grateful and credit you. If we get multiple logos, we'll choose one or two and rotate them from time to time. VNTL = Visual Novel Translation; Moon = reference to the free software we used The logo can be whatever you want -- it doesn't have to be moon-themed, though that kinda makes sense. Feel free to incorporate the Fuwanovel colors if you'd like: Fuwa Hex Codes: Pink = #ea69a1 Orange = #fccd87 Green = #cfe099 Blue = #79c8f3

?

Well... at least it's fixed. Tay pls.

That was probably me. Is it fixed now?

Still looking forward to assault-free (verbal, physical) responses. Interested to hear your takes on the question : P

So this happened earlier today in the clinic. How would you have finished the conversation if you were in my shoes? *Tap on my shoulder* Guy (fellow student): "Yo [Tay], what's that?" *Points to Fuwanovel on my PC screen* Me: "Oh, well, that's... kind of hard to explain. It's an online community I hang out in." Guy: "What's it about?" Me: "It's a fan community for something called 'visual novels'." *Guy's eyes glaze over* Me: (continuing) "It's interactive fiction. Kind of like a love child between graphic novels and video games." *Guy points to a pic of Saber* (< I was working on the Fate/HA walkthrough) Guy: "Is there a lot of that? The Japanese porn drawings?" (< Saber was fully-armored, btw) Me: " First of all, 'that' is a character named 'Saber' from an epic visual novel, and she is awesome. The visual novel she comes from is actually longer than the Lord of the Rings trilogy, believe it or not, so show it some respect, heathen. But yes, visual novels started in Japan so there are a lot of them drawn in the anime-ish art style." Guy: "Oookay. I still think they're porny." (< not a word) Me: "That probably says more about you than the art style." *Tay gets slugged* Me: "Owww!" Guy: "No, but really. Why not just read a book or comic instead?" ... how would you have responded? And stay tuned for the epic conclusion to this fateful conversation, coming soon!

All of these look fantastic. Great job, everybody! Really glad I wasn't the one who had to make that call. All of the entries were really, really good.

PSA: You may see ads appear/disappear around the forums over the next few days which may take the forms of either official/unofficial affiliate ads from J-List/Mangagamer, or Google AdSense ads. Please feel free to panic, but please keep the conversation and feedback quarantined to this thread. Anybody except Marie is welcome to give feedback about the ads, their placement, or report bugs.

I'm very sad that this conversation has moved straight past the mind control and the katanas and the slaves and the world domination to boring ole sidebar placement. : P Eh, the ad was just an experiment to check click-through rates on the J-list affiliate program. There will be more ad experiments coming in the next few days. The placement was given exactly 8.67 seconds of thought, so the fact that it bothers so many of you is just a lucky coincidence. I'll be putting up a post in the Community board about the upcoming ad experiments. Y'know. Just to make sure we all panic and make as big a deal as possible out of it. (And yes, thank you for noticing! That was, in fact, the first time I have ever used one of the new emoticons.)

You'd be amazed what I can do in a pinch with a bicycle. Don't hate until you've seen a master at work.

With one exception: biking. Look it up, my good sir. Fufufufufu.

< 3

Don't worry about me, I'll be there. But now we need to come up with a name for our crew.