Narcosis

Seems like it didn't sold particulary well

I also agree on SoL being an important element in writing. The problem shows up, when writers can't really balance the contents of their story well enough. As @@RedK said, it's fine for SoL to make majority of the game's content, at least in terms of modern standards (although, I'd still digress - even moege or charage can be written differently - they don't particulary require SoL as sole supporting element), but things get different with story-centric prose. Whereas an average charage or moege can survive solely on influx of SoL elements, more active genres require action and catalysts for these to actually happen. Good prose tends to minimize SoL elements to brief periods between chapters or events, where the action unfolds and remain used solely as subtle character-building devices. It's said, that "real characters" gain soul only through "real ordeals" - obviously, SoL itself isn't enough to actually construct an interesting character with deep personality, unless you're planning to create the next generation of Mary Sue's.

This kind of sacrifice is worthy of praise. Let's stay faithful with the latest advances on game naming, so how about Bishounen Whirlpool?

Jesus Christ, Frontwing.

You should know that already, my love for them is boundless. I'll have to make some space, but that shouldn't be a problem, considering I practically finished almost everything I wanted for the upcoming month. Thanks for reminding me of this awesome game

And we thought Japan's "no import for you" porn will become finally easy accessible

Ah, that's a really good one. It's still on my backlog, though and I never really got to playing it. @Clephas-sama, should I? Should I just drop everything and finally read this one?

It's not really a problem with software/hardware scaling of graphics. Current price similiarities might sound tempting at first glance, but those monitors are simply bad, low quality screens; not worth it. Get a decent 1080/1200p monitor instead. There's a nice lineup of those out on the market right now and you can get really good screens starting from 300$. Anything below will be mediocre or trash and I'm not even talking about 1440p. That aside, when we're talking about gaming, barely any card right now can handle modern games on 1440p maxed out (and they're already talking about 4k, lol). Even the high-end cards struggle to deliver smooth performance on 1440p. You need sli/crossfire setups for smooth multimonitor/multitask gaming and anything over a single 1440p monitor; pascal gpu's won't perform well with anything above that. Most vn's at the moment are still made in HD standards. That means 720p art, which is upscaled to fit more modern resolutions. Nedless to say, it looks bad, even on 1080p, not to mention higher resolutions. VN's look a lot better on smaller screens, preferably those that work natively with 720p resolutions. there is a rather small lineup of vn's already made in 1080p, but even those typically don't take full potential of these resolutions; the art is either rushed or budget quality, which means large areas of flat colors and little to no brush grading. In such case, results aren't any better than those of upscaled 720p vn's. Production of 1080p and UHD assets is very costly, which means we still won't propably see 1080p as the new vn standard for quite a while. I myself bought an Asus PA238 monitor as of late. If you're interested both with art and decent gaming performance + best possible color reproduction available at that range, I'd higly recommend this one. One of the reasons is that graphics, especially static make a very important part of vn's; bright and faithful color reproduction should be of utmost importance, if you want to truly enjoy their art.

For that much you can get a decent 1080p monitor, not 1440p.

Because mother Russia

Don't get the current budget grade 1440p monitors. Just don't. Especially if all you're planning to do is play vn's. 1080/1200p is more than enough.

Is it your first game, you're working on? Care to share the links, at least? Your partner might not be entirely wrong about the whole situation. Everything depends on the quality of work. If you already had made a name for yourself in the past, it's much easier to find publishers willing to work with you, otherwise you might be having a lot harder times at finding remotely anyone to support your work. Therefore - the higher production values, the more "professional" your work looks, the easier it is to hook in people. That aside, more valuable publishers will only chose games that will actually sell and typically don't bother with small fries or newbie studios. If this is indeed your first game, I'd simply remain careful about hastily making "friends" in the dev world, especially within publishing circles. There's a lot of scamming involved. Work on your game, spread the word via devblog and social media/communities, keep people interested. Publishing and releasing a game is art in itself and most of it you'll have to learn yourself, if you want the best results. If you're serious about being a game developer, I'd recommend at least skimming through related Gamasutra's article section. There's a lot to learn from and most of it is shared by professionals.

The guy best known for one of the most memorable quotes in the entire film industry. I'll miss him.

Cannonball, if you like sci-fi settings and space operas. It has a couple of strong-willed female characters, with Foxy, Toto and Patty leading in the ranks. It's a good read, likewise.

Are they for real, haha.

Fuwanovel in a nutshell

Force him to draw catgirls all day long. That, or introduce him to vn's

I'm still not getting Subahibi

Where's the "I don't care and still wouldn't buy it" option? I'm demolished

I heard it's preety bad and that's from a couple of people I really trust with vn's. Eitherway, you won't know until you try it yourself. I have no opinion, this vn doesn't interest me that much.

Is this a new rising trend?

Because she's not a staple catgirl this time?

Well, that was a close call. I haven't played that much. Despite that, I still managed to easily get T2. Woke up in the morning and saw I'm around ~4900; luckily I had 75 SP left, did a single song and event one afterwards and instantly jumped to 3400 Everything because I decided to to do a single 10+1 draw yesterday in (vain) hopes of obtaining that UR Umi and damn I regret it so much now. I'm propably going to start saving up loveca for that upcoming Rin UR, although there's propably a lot less time than for the Nico back then. Suprisingly, people didn't went gung ho with lovecas, the rest was preety standard. Seems like community either isn't used to the new system, or players were a lot wiser than I expected. This bodes rather well for our future wellbeing