/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I kind of wanted to help but didn't know what to do

I would but I'm playing Sharin no Kuni.

looks like fun! thank ye!

and gratz on finishing it!

>>4418108
I haven't heard about this, is it like Katawa Shoujo except /jp/ made?

>>4418143
Oh wow, piggybacking the Dandelion Girl release onto a drawfag thread - you guys are desperate.
;_;[/spoiler

Also,
>UMD

>>4418143
Oh wow, piggybacking the Dandelion Girl release onto a drawfag thread - you guys are desperate.
;_;

Also,
>UMD

So uh...what's this about?

>Creating a new account is currently not possible.

;_;

How long is this?

>>4418158
A kinetic novel (i.e. non-interactive visual novel) adaptation of the short story "The Dandelion Girl" by Robert Young.

>>4418160
Guest post. There's no need to create an account on such a poor forum anyway.

Get out Dandelion Girl devs

>>4418167
About 30 minutes. Mostly because there's a lot of pauses.

>>4418108
I'll stick out my hand and congratulate you guys on finishing your project despite the odds... (Downloading... expect a review of this...)

>>4418182
May as well give it a shot, then, though I'm not expecting quality any better than the average horribad game on renai.us.

Nice Komachi.

>>4418172

Ah, I see. Thanks. Since this thing is pretty short, I think I'll go give it a shot.

>>4418108
You shoulda made a different logo. I definitely don't want anyone getting ideas we're associated with those faggots at Four Leaf studios.

Otherwise, release banzai!

Fuck you all, this isn't just anime pictures plastered on fanfiction like KS. This is a short story written by a proffessional white male writer many years ago, now with illustrations. It's GOOD.

>>4418210
Uhh, well not exactly...

>>4418189
Gee thanks, mugen.

>>4418197
Afterward consider reading the original short story that it was adapted from. It's still very good--other than what I feel is an abrupt ending.

http://www.lexal.net/scifi/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/young2/young21.html

Congratulations on finishing the project

Thanks for finishing it! im gonna enjoy it!

I find it slightly scary how it crashes right when the girl turns around.

>>4418405
Try using the other version of ONScripter included. There weren't any beta testers so I wouldn't be surprised if there are numerous bugs (specific to certain systems) that no one is aware of.

Attention whoring thread
Reported

>>4418134
Too.
>>4418288
Fucking.
>>4418294
Obvious.

I'm really enjoying it so far. It helps a lot that it has a good script, but the script and music directing really fits it. It doesn't feel separate, tacked on if you will.

Some of the sprites do feel odd though, but it doesn't detract from the experience much once you get into it. One thing that really stands out are how dynamic some of the poses in some scenes are. It really conveys that feeling of something almost unreal, soft and light twirling around you, showing you the landscape.

I think you've done a great job.

>>4418483

>>4418134
here, fuck you I was just showing my support for anyone that actually finishes their chosen project

The story is nice, albeit predictable.

The pleasantly photoshopped backgrounds were fine. The music, for the most part, wasn't noticeable at all-- exception, the spinning music, which I felt fit the scene pretty well. The character sprites I liked, although Julie crying with the :< face felt off, and one of the turned faces looked like the eyes were out of line. The screen-shaking effects, to be blunt, should be removed.

And now I finally know where that line's from.

Thanks, guys.

When I finished this, I asked myself if the VN adds anything worthwhile to the original short story. Aside from some of the music tracks, I'm not sure it does. The rewrite added some things I thought were unnecessary, like the "fufufu" anime catchphrases and Julie's "kill me" reaction, but it was adequate enough for me to keep reading. I think the limited skill of the artist to convey feeling was a big part.

Even Higurashi's original art was emotionally striking. This, not so much.

I was not expecting this to ever be released. Good job.

I started reading it, until I realized I already read the short story before.

I had already read the short story beforehand, so I know you tampered with the fine details of the story. It feels like you've made it more modern, which is nice, although at times I feel like the mysterious atmosphere was ruined by it. It was interesting seeing how others interpreted the story through this visual novel, since when I read this in text form, the entire thing had a mysterious, ephemeral atmosphere, while when I read your visual novel, it felt more worldly.
It was an enjoyable experience, and I'm impressed with the work that was done, especially the music.

>>4418694
>>4418644
I thought it was nice too, until the "kill me" shit came out of nowhere. It would've been better if that were axed out, since it came out of nowhere and went nowhere.

I'll play it only because kotomi ichinose read the dandelion girl

So /jp/, when will it be cool to hate this?

>>4418125
No excuses!

As for everyone else, thanks for reading. I didn't do much (on the surface), but I'm sure the others would appreciate it.

Remember, this is also an OC thread.

Holy shit, somebody made a VN out of this? Sweet. Downloading at the speed of light.

>>4418743
After it catches on in /a/ or /v/ or such. Hopefully it doesn't, though.

>>4418743
Right about.....now

>>4418766
I don't think you'll have to worry about that.

>>4418764

>>4418764
On another note, fabulous box art you have there.

Having now read the original, I can say this: >>4418714 is right. And I think I prefer the original ending.

>>4418766
I won't make a release thread on /a/ nor /v/. /jp/ Project was formed by /jp/ers, for /jp/ers primarily.

And I only browse /jp/, so I feel no loyalty to any other boards.

>>4418812

The really unfortunate thing about reading this is that, being a short VN, I considered it in context of the other similar-length VN I've read: "The Letter". This was an awful thing to do, given that the plot was almost an exact mirror. Of course, Dandelion Girl came far earlier. Accordingly, I figured out what was going on very, very, very early on in the story.

But the VN was, otherwise, great. Great music choices, pretty good art, and a mostly-fitting modernization/update/rewrite. I think this was probably done better than The Letter, though in large part due to the better actual writing.

Props to the team; good job.

>>4418766
I will be playing SR so I will put DG on my backlog.
The only people saying we hate popular stuff are probably the KS devs. According to their logic we should shit over everything that is 07th expansion, rance, type-moon, ymk, saya, touhou or anything that is remotely popular.

Oh god I fucking lol'd at the deleted scene.

BAD END

I'm going to bump this back to top page...

This thread deserve it...

Having finished it now, I do agree that the kill me feels too far out of place, clashing with the rest of the piece. Bad End indeed in the deleted scene

Really liked it overall, and the extras are a nice addition to seeing the work that went into it

His wife's on jury duty in Chernobyl?

Goddamnit, why the intro part remind me of Nasu...

It's useless. It's all useless.s

>>4418714
Regarding:"kill me":

My speculation is that the writer was having a bad day when he wrote that, because when I first saw it I burst out laughing at how out-of-place it was. We gave him free reign with the story though, so that's why it was left in there.

>>4418837
I still think the original story's ending left a bit to be desired. However, I'll agree with you that the rewrite's ending wasn't executed particularly better.

>>4418913
>>4418975
Thank you. It was one of the last things added in. I had full control over the extras and tried to make them as interesting as possible.

7/10.

Without the kill me, I'd give it 9/10.

Still waiting for the Okuu colored ;_;

Why is there an enormous penis coming out of this girl's butt?

>UMD
>PC DVD-ROM

wat

>>4419156
That's the joke.

Sound 'n music anon here - most of the "original" music didn't make it to the final cut for one reason or another, but if you are interested you can find most of it here (about half or so are just sketches though):

http://tindeck.com/users/nona

>>4419300
I find this depressing.

Nice except for "lol kill me" part.
I think All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein should be the next project.

Made a minor fix to some old art.

>>4419379
>I think All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein should be the next project.
By the looks of things, there won't be a next project. But that was an interesting short story.

Just finished reading it. I loved it. so I rushed a small sketch for our Julie.

go /jp/ make more nice things!

I must say that I am really impressed by this.

Having seen so many /jp/ original content projects waste away, it is really refreshing to see something has finally come out of it. And not only that, the finished product is of pretty high quality.

Like many of the above said, the music really does fit the story. I would go out on a limb and say that my favorite part about this work is the music. Music folks really did a fine job. My favorite song is probably "Mary".

Art wise, it could have been better, but it was passable. One instance that I thought the art did more harm than good was during the kill me scene. Julie's sprites looked more joking than sad, which sort of ruined the moment for me.

I liked the story alot, but this is coming from someone who hasn't read the original. I thought the story fit the game's other aspects well, so no problems with it.

Overall, congratulations on the project. I look forward to seeing more from you guys in the future.

>Ah, useless. It's all useless.
Oh wow.

>>4419652
that was a nice tribute there, im suprised too.

Wow, it's finally done. Congrats bros.

Downloading at the speed of light.

Looks like the OnScripter are finally looking solid for anyone to build a vn. Creator just pointed that out.

>>4419652
Speaking which, I wonder if:

>Mark smiled, admiring her, and thought her energetic dance looked like something plucked out from his past.

>...No., That wasn't quite right, either.

>That's right. She wasn't from the past at all, was she...?

is probably what >>4419049 was referring to. Wondering if that was a Nasuism myself.

਄୎়়়়়়়

Good night bump. Keep the thread alive if you care.

Just another reminder that this is an OC/drawthread as well.

>>4420108
Sleep tight Chen.

>>4420108
What the hell is wrong with her hands?

>>4420186
Looks ok-ish to me. Sketchy lines are hard to tell though.

>>4420215
Probably talking about them furry hands

A bump for the /jp/ project devs!

>>4420176
B-but she didn't draw anything!

requesting uninformed Reimu

Took em long enough.

morning bump, I guess.

Holy shit, I looked at the /jp/ project message board for like the first week after it was created but it seemed nobody was posting there so I stopped checking, that was like a year ago right? I remember the Dandelion Girl thread but I never imagined it would actually be created.

Fucking congratulations on getting this thing done, I salute all of you.

/jp/ is pretty fucking awesome today.

Has anybody made a thread on /a/ or /v/ yet?

>>4422396
You best be trolling.

>>4422563
I don't know if you've ever created something before, but when it came time for my project's first release I wanted as much people as possible to see it. I believe you're being unfair to the /jp/ devs when you say such things.

/a/ and /v/ might be bad but their input could still be helpful.

>>4422638
No, /a/ and /v/ will ruin it.
To live happy, live in hiding.

Should have waited until today to release it.
Today is /jp/'s birthday. And mine.
Anyway, wonder what /lit/ thinks about this.

So when can we expect a re-release without "kill me lawl"?

>>4422638
respect the creator intent, if he want or dont want it in other places, then so be it. Im glad i got to read it. its great!

Should I read the actual short story before I read the KN?

Downloading regardless.

>>4422680
If you read the short story first, you'll get spoilers for the VN. If you read the VN first, you'll get spoilers for the short story. Pick your poison.

>>4422680
VN should be first, since its got music, art along with it. its a better experience overall. they are both short enough.

Was Anon's Nice Day ever completed /jp/?

>>4422824
It wasn't.

Will check it out. Just get rid of En Bloc and I won't call you "normalfag project" anymore

Morning/afternoon bump, won't have time to draw things until a bit later.

>>4420186
I suck at foreshortening, didn't feel like looking for reference, scribbled in something that vaguely resembled hands and called it a day.

>>4422652
>Today is /jp/'s birthday.
Shhhh. Yes you're right, but the exact moment it becomes 2 years old is 11:37 PM Eastern Time. Also, I wanted to avoid a weekend release.

ever thought of renaming it instead of "/jp/ project" to make sound official?

>>4423165
>/jp/ project
Watermarking is not good for anything period.
Just leave it anonymous, if it is good people will hear about it.
No need to go around advertising that it is from 4chan or /jp/.

>>4423173
This.

>>4423173
You say this, but I personally wouldn't have played 'The Answer' if it wasn't by Four Leaf Studios. If you have a name attached to the work, other works with the same name attached to it get more attention, and vice versa.

It was a pretty cute, good job!

One of the pictures of Julie looked a bit weird (pic related), but besides this it looks great.

If you ever need coding done for a future project, I'd be glad to help.

>>4423224
>Four Leaf Studios
I wouldn't even play it since it is from them.
>more attention
As expected from them.

>>4423224
And this is why my shit always fails. Damn me for being so anti-namefag...

>>4423234
http://jpproject.2ksite.com
The Dandygirl team currently does not seem to have any plans for another project, but maybe you can convince them? Anything about future projects, requests for coders, and people offering help on whatever area for a project will probably be on that forum.

Will archive to Kureha One so the traffic from other places will see this too.

bump

ks devs watchin ur thread

<Delta_Kurshiva> HEY GUYS UM
<Delta_Kurshiva> HERE'S A BUNCH OF STUFF
<Delta_Kurshiva> ALSO WE RELEASED PLEASE DON'T HATE US WE ARE TARDS JUST LIKE YOU
<Delta_Kurshiva> > Fuck you all, this isn't just anime pictures plastered on fanfiction like KS. This is a short story written by a proffessional white male writer many years ago, now with illustrations. It's GOOD.
<Delta_Kurshiva> oh /jp/
<Delta_Kurshiva> you are such a gaggle of fucks
<Delta_Kurshiva> brb twitter >:3
<Delta_Kurshiva> Gotta put these losers in their place :3

>>4423769
Get out KS devs.

>>4421307
That's the point, let your imagination run wild and put something on there yourself.

>>4423769
If you're going to copypaste shit from IRC, at least don't add your own slander, okay.

>>4423789
>suggesting you need to add slander to anything 4ls says about anyone else

>>4423769
>implying anyone cares about KS other than KS devs

progress on KS btw?, thats been forever.

>>4423809
>>4423859
>implying

Nice job, guys.

Wish I had stuck around that site a bit longer. I thought nothing came out of it. But shit happened.

I do hope you guys do something else, maybe something original? Then again, an All You Zombies adaptation would sound pretty cool.

KS devs INSIDE your dandelion girl lol

<Delta_Kurshiva> If /jp/ continues to annoy me I'll let it slip that DG and KS share staff
<Delta_Kurshiva> cruel but, rather unfortunately for them, true.
<Delta_Kurshiva> and /jp/ project does not even know it because they believe in anon
<Delta_Kurshiva> the random unnamed forum guest that did their laste proofreading pass and took out a million ellipses is silentcook

>>4424100
You know he could just be full of shit right?

>>4424100

lol

＞jpproject

>>4418106
Stop spamming AɳoɳTalk.com with your stupid shit.

>>4424100
Truly, without silentcook this project would never have been completed.

>>4424100
Is that supposed to surprise me? Out of the legions of slobbering masses on 4chan, only a tiny handful of us are productive at anything. It's the same with rippers / scanners / translators / fansubbers and whatever else. They're all very small clusters of mostly the same individuals. I see nothing to be shocked over.

>>4424100
Whatever. He didn't do anything critical, just set all ellipses to the standard 3 dots. 99% of the work was done by /jp/ anons, and VDZ helped get things started in ONScripter. Saying that DG "shared staff" with KS is a load of bull.

anymore secret projects /jp/ cooking up this time?

>>4424100
Whew...

>>4424804
Not secret, but En Bloc is still being worked on. Slowly. Very, very slowly.

>>4424804
None, as far as I know.

>>UMD

HAHA, OH WOW.

All jokes aside, it was amusing. 5/10 might read again.

>>4424948
>secret
>as far as I know
*rolls eyes*

>>4424948
I'd totally play MG Mascot - The Game.

So, it's ONScripter, that means I can play it on my PSP.

Who wrote this? I think the forums mentioned the guy who rewrote this is an actual writer.

>>4425007
>>the guy who rewrote this is an actual writer.
>>implying anyone on /jp/ has some sort of talent.

Trollface.jpg

As a couple of other anons have said, the shaking is retarded and should be cut.

That aside, the rest was pretty OK. I was surprised at the amount of sprites, and the music was pretty good.

I wouldn't want to read /jp/'s eroge if it's at this level though.

>>4425021
>>implying that one needs talent to be a writer

>>4425033

To write, no. To be a "writer," yes.

That said, I don't know if either are true or not.

Holy shit.

Someone should totally post this on 2ch or something to troll the Nipons.

>>4425038
Obviously.

>>4425050
They'd probably make translation projects for it, like KS.

Did they actually manage to finish it?

>>4425058

Oh fuck. Someone should totally post it.

>>4425050
>Someone should totally post this on 2ch or something to troll the Nipons.
How would that be trolling? Maybe some Japanese people would like to practice their, uh, English-reading skills or something.

>>4425007
I don't think he's an "actual writer", but I guess he's aspiring to be one. Honestly, I think it's a bad idea to disclose your real name (or other personal, identifying information) publicly on the Internet, moreso on 4chan, but here's his blog link that he posted in the Dandelion Girl forum: http://emichaels.blogspot.com/

Just finished the game.

I think I prefer the original short story. I didn't like a couple of things in the rewrite, like the stupid kill me dialogue, that ruined that scene for me. I do like the girl's new personality with her twirls and stuff.

>>4425087
>About Me
>I go to private college, write and program on the side. I also bake and cook a good amount. I'd like to think I'm fairly good at what I do.

Now if he was this cute in his writing...

>>4425021
Hey, I'm talented at math!

>>4425087

Too cute to be from /jp/. Why isn't he sick, pale and covered with acne?

This can't be right.

>>DaVinci Code

Haha, oh wow.

>>4425104
>>Now if he was this cute in his writing

He said himself that this was outside of his genre, and pretty experimental, apparently. Well, whatever.

>>cold funk

Best fucking track in the game.

OST?

>>4425123
I started reading over his other stuff and in all honesty he kind of sucks.

He didn't do a bad job in the game though.

>>4425087
>>Honestly, I think it's a bad idea to disclose your real name (or other personal, identifying information) publicly on the Internet

That isn't actually his real name. He said so, himself.

>>4425130
bgm folder, my friend. Nothing is hidden, I don't like it when people compile data, so naturally I didn't do it either.

>>4425142

>>read one of his stories
>>one story
>>one
>>sucks

I don't think it's right to judge him based on this one story, so I'm giving him the benefit of a doubt. Well, that's all there IS right now, so I don't blame you.

Where is "Castle," though? He mentions it in there.

Julie is fucking trolling with Mark. those were the best moments.

>>4425162

This is where I'm confused--in 2004, does Julie have any idea she's going to become Anne until she leaves? Or is it, like, she was bound to do that eventually, anyway.

UGHHHHH, USELESS. IT'S ALL USELESS.

Also the Umineko references cracked me up.

>>4425160
Dandelion Girl makes two, and I said that it wasn't bad. Apparently that clown-cops story is finished, too. Well, it's not like IRL a writer will be given the benefit of the doubt so simply.

The Castle, like Kafka's?

>>4425189

He seems to know about the mechanics of writing well enough, at least: http://edrewrite.blogspot.com/ . Linked from his Blogger profile, authentic.

Why cant we have more smart adult main leads like Mark?

>>4425159

Dandy Girl Arranged Soundtrack where?

>>4425406

Because most people who play VNs aren't intelligent adult males?

Ryukishi07's white brother?

>>4418108
will this run in linux?

>>4426175

I think it runs in WINE.

>>4426112
How about no?

>>4426175
Read the readme file. I don't think the included ONScripter.exe will work, but we did link to the ONScripter-En page where you can download the latest version for Linux.

>>4426203

I was wondering about Linux too, this fixed it. Thanks, Anon.

>>4425780
That would be amusing, but extremely improbable. Who would bother spending the energy doing something like that?

In other news, not enough OC in an OC thread.

>>4426334
>Who would bother spending the energy doing something like that?
I would, if only not all of the music would be kinds of music I'm completely unfamiliar with composing, and I didn't suck at rearranging from hearing alone.

>>4426334

90% of the original tracks are by Kevin MacLeod.

I don't think he'd care about remixing them, though. Shit might be pretty cash.

Just downloaded and finished it. It was sweet, I enjoyed it.

Still, get out Dandy Devs.

Looks like Dandy Girl's writer posted something on one of the forums' other project boards.

Relevant?

I was thinking, after her quote.
"The day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you."

It occurred to me that I've heard the quote before, but never read this story. I rattled my brains out trying to recall where I've read it before.

I google it only to find that I got it from Clannad...

I don't know if I should feel disappoint in myself....

>>4426652
You should feel bad, I realized where I'd seen it before immediately and I didn't even finish the gigantic pile of literary diarrhea that was Clannad.

Alright already. Damn you.

I am playing your game. This better be decent.

>>4426680
Perhaps I'm a fool for asking, but what is it that you dislike about CLANNAD?

>>4426729
Jones is a bitter old man who didn't have a childhood, he can't appreciate anything.

>>4426680
JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

>>4426729
Kyou route => dropped

>>4425780
Next Comiket, bra. Actually, I'll probably just make an image album or something, as I felt most of the soundtrack really doesn't have much coherence together, even though individually they're fitting scenewise.

Why does the damn project board lack like a mofo? I don't remember it being this bad before.

Night bump. Keep the thread alive if you care.

Tried to salvage an old drawing, but it was probably too screwed up to fix.

>>4428313
It's been like that for a few months now. The web host sucks.