/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I wish 'LEL EOP EOP TRANSLATED = SHIT' retards would leave this one alone.

It's not often a space-related thread pops up in /jp/.

I really like space. Home of the large, old and distant.

RIP

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>>10317777

The art for everything Key is fucking awful. Other than Planetarian.

There's Planetarian spoilers in the image. It pisses me off that I have to say that 'cause of how many people abuse spoilers.

Why do VNs take so long to make?

I don't write professionally, but I know that it cannot take years of work to write what's in, for example, Planetarian. The art is also not in huge volume or quality - a set of backgrounds and reference sprites for each character, along with some situational CG art, doesn't take years to draw. When I went to Digipen I was made to hand in a pad of fifty full-color drawings to my professor every month, and each was of higher overall quality than the usual CG I see.

I'm asking because I don't see what's stopping me from making one in my free time. I couldn't do the voice acting, but I could do everything else, and I don't think it would take as much work as studios purportedly put into it. The only thing which would present difficulty is the 'conceptual' sort of writing, where I'd be determining what the setting is like, how the characters look and behave, who the bad guy is, and other things to the same effect. But I could still do this. I have some ideas in mind. My other concern is that it would remain obscure, being an English VN. I know Katawa Shoujo had success, but it had the appeal of being 'a 4chan project' and a lot of hype surrounding it.

This image contains Planetarian spoilers, for those of you who haven't played/read it. Her status-ribbon-thing was genius design.