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You guys let your guard down and didn't bump the last bread.
I let it happen because I would rather be working on something
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Don't slack, post progress. It's weekend. Don't pretend your outside to party all night. You're only allowed to party with your Ren'py skills.
I let it die, gomen guys. I watched it die and wanted to see if someone would bump it.
I'm going to sleep. You better keep the thread until I wake up
>change username
>the new username is harder to spell and remember
maybe he hopes you little shits will stalk him less
we're not the ones who used someone's death as an opportunity to shill
you used someone's death as an excuse to show how much better you are than them
what?
bump to hopefully save thread while I get scanner working.
What's your favorite part of working on your game(s) GUI?
>in b4 "handing it off to my artist for them to do"
I'm a huge slut for buttons. Fuck logos, though.
Already having all of it done
Text boxes. Not as big of a fan of lettering.
do you make huge intricate curlicues?
>post progress
I made an LSF thread for my project: lemmasoft.renai.us
I was debating on waiting until September when I should be finished the demo, but I'm really bad at being public about my work so until the demo is done may just turn into until the art is upgraded and so on. And yeah, I do plan on upgrading the sprites. A few of you pointed out the stiff poses, my art direction was terrible when I first started. Time will tell if I've learned anything.
I found the project really hard to talk about without spoiling anything, so I haven't really said much about the plot for now. Although, looking at other LSF threads that may not be all that uncommon.
I really need to sleep for a bit, so please don't die again.
>lemmasoft.renai.us
>gui by auro
wow lucky! i kind of regret not getting a slot when she opened up a long time ago.
I wanna ride whiskey dude's eyebrows 10/10. Plus I love the way you organized/divided everything up, also 10/10.
I'm also hoping the thread won't die because I'm trying to scan all my old notes/art like I promised last thread, but there's way too much. And I don't want to just do half today half tomorrow because I started scanning chronologically and the real 'good' shit is in the earliest drawings.
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Did the women in Ladykiller in a Bind always look so masculine?
Yaz is waifu material
God, there's no way. I'm just finishing the char design stuff and I still have a million things of GUI to scan.
No worries though, when I do get it all done I'll lump all this shit together so you don't have to go through page after page like I am.
Progress
Pretty sure an artist I worked with a long time ago comes in here and shit posts about my new team from time to time.
i just asked my writer to put memes in my game
What keeps you guy going and making progress? There's nothing really pressuring me, but I figure if I had to post it to evn everyday, I would probably make insane amount of progress.
Nah, that's just us.
No, hence the criticism.
>tfw you don't know memes all that well
Please never ask this of me.
>tfw you include a line about motives not being complex
You should stay this way. Memes are shit.
they are cancer but if people find them funny i'm not going to argue.
Posting every single day might be a little too much.
I think it's them
it's me
I knew it. Please stop hating me.
it was me Dio
it a me mario
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It makes me feel a tad bad that I'll never be able to do that because of shame.
yeah not knowing how to take screenshots is really embarrassing
>COMING SUMMER 2016
So 3 more days ?
>did two tracks approved by the client from scratch today
Working my way back to full speed, halfway there.
Are you making progress with your workflow, /evn/? What can you do to optimize the process?
You're so productive, darling.
I'm glad to have you working for me.
link to your sounds portfolio
Ok, I won't lie some of these sound dope, you definitely have some talent built up. The biggest question is are you a boy or a girl tho cuz shit I can't even tell.
Fucking is extra.
What are you rates?
For fucking, not for sound or anything. Probably.
>revisiting writing I did 5 months ago
its not that bad, I can still use the general framework, but boy did my dialogue need revamping.
5 month is not so old, you can't get much better in 5 month.
Yeah, it's just the characterization and dialogue I'm changing for the better.
>you can't get much better in 5 month.
If I knew you all wouldn't tear it to shreds I'd post my current version vs my 5 month old version.
pussy
post your progress then faggot
oh wait
you're nothing but a shitty nodev
>horror
>psychological horror
Is this an ebin troll or the game really contains spooks?
It's just steam users thinking they are funny, they add that tag to a bunch of games that don't have any in it
Let's liven up this thread
How did you get into VN's and what was your first (english) VN, /evn/?
>How did you get into VN's
It was a natural progression from watching anime
First evn was katawa shoujo, first TL vn was nocturnal illusion.
first vn was phoenix wright, first evn was katawa shoujo
is yaoi con in SF a good way to meet other evn people
will i meet other gay girls at yaoi con
It's a good place to find yourself a boyfriend.
no, no you will not
you'll meet nothing but filthy fujos
I got into this through those crappy dating sims in Newgrounds, back in good old 2007. First VN was some unremarkable nukige, Sagara Family I think. As for evns, I read both Katawa Shoujo and Lucid 9 intercalated a few months ago.
I actually don't remember any of the evns I read. Katawa Shoujo is the only one that comes to mind. As for jvn it would be Do you like horny bunnies? or Kara no Shoujo if you don't count those.
Why would gay girls like yaoi
i thought yaoi con was a no boys allowed event
i have seen pictures on /cgl/ where girls crossplay as popular yaoi pairings and make out
if i crossplay as L will i find cute light crossplayers who want to kiss or cuddle
The problem with putting memes in your game is that if someone plays it a year later it's either not going to be funny or they aren't going to get it.
>i have seen pictures on /cgl/ where girls crossplay as popular yaoi pairings
there's your problem
i thought yuri fandom and yaoi fandom went hand in hand
that seems to be the way it works in every shipping fanart community i have seen
First of many VNs was YMK, first (and only) EVN is KS
I'm only here to shitpost
Mental illness + retardness, so you can't know what they will do and what they will like.
hey me2
Actually my first VN was phoeix wright, if that counts
Has /evn/ always been full of thirsty lesbians? Why are there no hetero girls working on VNs
Dunno. Why are there no hetero girls who like tabletop RPGs? Why are there no hetero men who like Sandra Bullock flicks?
It's a mystery.
but I thought otoge was supposed to be the most popular VN genre? I am pretty sure the Lemmasoft demographic is nerdy 14 year old girls who are looking for something new to move onto after re-reading Twilight for the tenth time.
I'm het and I'm working on an evn.
The irony is that its a yuri evn
Why would 14 years old girls come here?
and you are a boy
The better question is why would he want 14 year old girls to come here? Is there something you'd like to tell us, user?
Yeah, that is a thing. But judging from what we see around these parts, I wonder how many keep their motivation up beyond the age of 16, and how many find new interests.
I'm a girl. Sorry to disappoint.
Then what are your motives to do yuri? I can't for the life of me think of a single reason that would make me try my hand with yaoi, for example. I don't understand the dinamic and wouldn't know how to make the characters appealing.
Or are you perhaps bandwagoning?
Because I do experience attraction to women, but only 2d ones. I have a waifu and so on.
Real women just do nothing for me however.
So yeah, I can hardly class myself as being bi on that basis.
>Or are you perhaps bandwagoning?
Nope, been wanting to do this project for years.
Oh, it's like fapping to traps, and saying it's not gay for boys.
Also, are you seriously implying that in order to be able to write about a gay romance, you have to be gay yourself? If so, that is the stupidest thing I have ever read in this general.
Just because you wouldn't understand the dynamic/appeal, doesn't mean its the same for other writers.
straight women who are into gay pairings is one of the oldest geekdoms around, even older than the internet when it was just college girls writing Kirk/Spock slashfic on their typewriters
For example see this old post from 2004: trickster.org
Well fuck, never thought of it like that.
I guess it is.
I don't know how to feel about this.
Yeah I don't get where people get this idea, 90% of male/male erotica is written by and for straight women. Actual gay men would much rather watch porn videos than read a hot steamy romance novel.
You can, but man, the lack of motivation will show. And yeah, sure, you don't need to have been an spy to write spy novels, but being le Carré helps a fucking ton.
>Just because you wouldn't understand the dynamic/appeal, doesn't mean its the same for other writers.
But I am a writer. I could force myself to read a bunch of yaoi to "get it" to a certain degree, but why in the fucking world would I when I can write about other stuff that suits better my tastes.
And 90% of female/female erotica is written by and for straight men. Now as a woman I really don't understand why f/f stuff is such a huge fetish/fantasy? Anyone care to enlighten me?
The thing about traps in h-manga is that most of them are anatomically flat-chested girls who are just drawn with dicks. So they have all of the feminine features in terms of body type, faces, etc.
You can see this especially in certain artists who have sameface where the character designs for girls are basically the same as the ones they use for guys.
Well that makes sense, it just isn't a problem for me because I'm about as deep into fictional women as a person can get whilst still claiming heterosexuality.
Probably men who have been shamed into thinking that male sexuality is gross, and lesbian lovin' ins more "pure." I thought that was a big part of the appeal of yuri anime (specifically talking about anime like Sakura Trick, not a lot of the /evn/ stuff which seems to actually be about/by/for real lesbians
That I get it. It's the same for guys who are into yuri. And I get the reasons of , because she has a personal interest into it.
Ohh, so /u/nicorn appeal then. Thanks, it all makes sense.
Yeah, I wasn't saying you shouldn't do it. Just wanted to understand what drew you to that. You told me, I got it. No prob.
yeah the whole point of most traps is literally just to have "girls with dicks" that are deniably not girls. Maybe goes hand in hand with the "female sexuality is more pure" so it's for guys who are more okay with seeing someone get gangbanged when it's technically a dude for purposes of the story but drawn to appeal to people who like the female form?
I think I'm starting to understand the reason why so many lesbians hated highway blossoms