/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Hey guys.

I work at CWS Software, you can call me sabata2. If any of you recognize me, which is doubtful, you'll know that my branch in this company deals with Visual Novels.

Well, we've finally gotten our product to a releasable state, and I would greatly appreciate your comments and criticisms.
You can find our website here at: http://datesim.org/

Yes, we know it's "datesim.org" but the guy who owns the URL we want is asking for far more than we can afford.

What we're trying to do is to get Visual Novels more widely accepted in America by making them more accessible. The beauty of our engine is that because it's web based you can play it on anything that has a browser.
Literally anything. You can play it on Windows, Linux, Mac, an iPhone, or even a Droid. Hell even a BlackBerry (though how well it runs we can't say).

We're going to mostly be supported with content created by people like you when we start off. And yes, we were planning on talking to the KS guys to see if they'd allow us to promote their game on our engine.
(We'll see how well that goes)

We're hoping that you'd be willing to help support us through Kickstarter. (here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/429052632/datesimorg-a-visual-novel-portal-we-make-games-you))
So that we could attempt to move Visual Novels out of the niche and into the broader spectrum.
You don't have to if you don't want to.

And now to what this has to do with /jp/.
Once we're more set in stone, we plan on being the company to localize other country's Visual Novels, and give them official translations.

That goal is still a long ways off, but hey, we all gotta start somewhere.
We're just hoping you guys will follow us on the way there.