/evn/ - English Visual Novels

Progress Reports edition

Do you have a question about a Japanese visual novel or a translation of it?
/vn/ is ready to answer it. We are not them.

>Developer Resources, Getting Started:
pastebin.com/7LsCvtq3 (embed)

>Recommended Reading:
vndb.org/v/all?q=;fil=olang-en.tagspoil-0;o=d;s=rating
pastebin.com/zGVSpH0B (embed)

>For Developers. Huge collection of guides on everything:
lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewforum.php?f=42

>Ren'Py Download:
renpy.org/

I just received the boxes for the game!

What have you done today, /evn/? other than shitpost.

Nothing yet but my sleep pattern is messed up. I still have 11 hours ahead to do stuff.

Completed another set of expressions. Just one more to go.

mfw almost started a new thread.

How do you prefer your LI designs, /evn/?
Do you like them to look simple or you like them to be more unique?

what the fuck is the point in making a basic ass bitch LI?

Wonder if people even listen to OST so that I can just skimp out on it and save fees.

Music is very important

that's such a broad question i don't know why you even asked.

you'd think, but they tend to become the most popular of your characters

I've accomplished very little today. Suffering withdrawal symptoms which is making writing such a pain in the ass.

>Broad question
Are you...Sure?

>using your trip when starting a new thread
come the fuck on now

yeah, meant to do it without it; the captcha expired, i went back to the page, hit post, didn't notice chrome auto-filled in the trip, i apologize

I usually prefer more detailed designs than simple ones, but it greatly depends on the artstyle.

Pardon me, but what is LI?

>tripfag OP

i need an adult

lesbian incest

When has this been a thing?

How to progress reports?

A list usually. You can take a look at how MMOs do updates too. It's usually organized nicely.

Loli impregnation

notice the contrast between the fidelity/artstyle of the background and the sprite

i can't wait to pay THIRTY DOLLARS for this masterpiece

Tell me that fucking text box isn't over her tits the whole time

I get wanting to have nice BGs, but at one point you have to question wether you want them to overshadow your sprites.

Also

> 30 bucks

is that for real?

large intestine

It's good for low-budget EVN. Worth 30$.

What can I do to give back to /evn/

Post progress

i am so hyped for this. i wonder how she's doing the h patch.

What game?

I could've sworn that was a man until I read the text and noticed the gyno.

all the women look like men in that game
and the dev gets really triggered when you point it out

lmao, that was hilarious to read. She got triggered to hell and back.

did CL have a public meltdown over people noticing this? please, link me so that i may enjoy and partake

making a fairly big h-game, do I make the MC male or make the thousandth yurishit EVN

There's a real gap in the market for high quality
b x g games, for some reason japan hates that niche so go for it!

durrr if only there was some sort of inbetween that combines both genitals durrr

Tell us what you think about her colors, /evn/.

it feels a bit too unsaturated, but the hair might be okay as is

it's mainly the blue

Tone that red eyes down, she looks like she's going to eat somebody.

Make the blues or her hair darker.

Going to bed now. If artist still hasn't delivered by the time I wake up, I'm replying to this post with FUCK.

>scum artists delivering on time
FUCK. I'll share your burden senpai.

>allow people to choose both genders
>add loads of homo and furshit
I just gave you the secret to creating the most successful porn games.

My god that blue has been that way since time immemorial.

well it's about to change bitch

Opinions on Christine Love?

Older version from 2 years ago.

Admire the dedication, keep at it.

a dev who uses their vagina in order to sell games and pushes ~DIVERSITY~ as a selling point
in other words, trash

Opinions on Ebi Hime?

MASSIVE SHRIMP

pumps out games without any target market, have no idea how they're not bankrupt
also has the most long winded, purple prose, telling and not showing writing style in all of evn

Probably since most of her games are cheap or free. Other than that I agree. I liked the way we all go, but nothing else that she's done.

>most of her games are cheap or free.
Exactly, meaning I'm willing to bet that she never makes back her own investment on these titles. So I have no idea how she can afford to keep doing it. Must have a rich family like the driftwood dev.

Most of her artists are shitty and probably cheap, and the one artist that isn't shit mostly does commercial games with her.

I wonder why she doesn't seem to improve at all despite pumping out a new game every two months.

she has a full time job (involving small children, weirdly enough) and the assets in her games are so cheap she probably never breaks the $400 range.

What do you most regret creating?

actually innovates on the form of VNs (don't take it personal was really neat, analog and digital are both pretty unique in presentation), creative ideas, pretty much the only person doing something outside of the boilerplate standard for VNs mechanically and presentation

bad writing, often inadvertently communicates the opposite of what she intends (like the "mean bully" girl actually being the most sympathetic character in the entire cast when CL intended for her to be a complete irredeemable bitch)

First, Second, or Third Person

fourth
revolutionize and innovate senpai, be better than those other evns

What do you called narration from the perspective of a hivemind?

I'm more worried how blurry that BG is.

TURBOPERSON

>No target market
>Consistently earns enough to continue development
>How is she not bankrupt!

Muh Steamspy!

Any new releases for this season?

>hayai
>osoi
Heh

I-is there an actual facesitting scene if you are hayai?

Last thread was - 59 posters and 765 messages.
Is it even worth shilling here?

>people posting more than once in the same thread
The horror.

We shill for you too, it's not like the industry is big. We know everyone there is to know and use their help all the time. We're in this together.

59 sales is a decent result for an evn lmao

we r legun

Not really, more than 59 people played my shitty obscure free game.

christine love has a vagina? when did it get installed?

>tfw christine love will never pierce your asshole with her hard tranny cock on a bed of money and tears

wait that's a good feel

hi, JP

I know it can depend on the vn but are character routes usually longer or shorter than the common route?

They're usually longer if important or shorter if the common route is the focused story. You can also say it's half and half with common being the middle and the character routes filling to the end.

>buying evns
That's even worse that buying games.

depends on the structure of the game. katawa shoujo is one act of "common route," and then acts 2-4 are individual to each character

Hmm

>being this poor

disgusting

>giving money to incompetent plebs
You are the cancer.

Finally found a way to produce quick desert backgrounds. Shaved the process down to 10-20 minutes for each. They're not spectacular but they do the job so I'm satisfied.

>$10-20 bg
That's okay for that quality.
Doesn't look like a sand, more like ice-cream.

I'm not gonna sell them. They're for a free project I'm working on. Details and refinement will be added to them when all the bases are done.

He's right, consider adding some monochrome noise to get the "sandy" feeling

Also, the shapes in the distance would look better if the were a bit blurred/slightly more blueish

Yeah, of course. They were made to help visualize the exploration mechanic in my game, so they don't need to be refined at this stage.

The eventual backgrounds will look more like this, with and additional 15-20 mins work. I'm saving that for later because I'd rather have everything down first before refining.

rep

EVN that teaches me to cook with cute waifus/husbandos when
just don't put in any animal mascots

Check steam, there's version for boys and for girls.

Well if we're talking JVNs common routes tend to be way longer than any individual route. EVNs don't have those resources so they're usually shorter.

ded

Someone, post some progress, or some elves, or some traps.

too late

no

Question: what sort of stuff do you like to see in artbooks? Anything in particular other than the art itself and some commentary about it?