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TL here. Glad to see people care about this project. It makes it even more worthwhile. Things slowed down a bit over the holidays as I dealt with family obligations and all that jazz but the pace should be picking up again shortly. As for the progress, I'll leave specific updates to the team lead but rest assured that things are still progressing well.

In Hapymaher's case, the protagonist's and antagonist's perceptions (conscious, subconscious and otherwise) defined the setting at any given time, with some interaction from the heroines. In that sense, the world was fluid, but vagueness about how much was reality and how much was dream was deliberately orchestrated the way it was, to give the impression of the lines being blurred between the two. World-building isn't just something like Dir Lifyna's grand setting, but also the more immediate setting. In that sense, Hapymaher does an excellent job. Moreover, even characters can be considered world-building elements, depending on their roles. I honestly consider Maia to be one of the single most powerful living world-building elements I've ever seen in a VN, lol. Edit: I'm going to go ahead and clarify my viewpoint on what I consider to be world-building. First, world-building is an aspect of creating the setting. The difference between the creation of a setting and world-building primarily lies in unique lore or aspects that require you to step beyond what can be called 'common sense' or 'things you should know as a matter of course'. As such, the creation of a high school setting in a charage wouldn't be considered world-building. However, the creation of a unique aspect of such a school - such as the election system in Primal Hearts - would be considered world-building, as this aspect does not exist as a base template of what a high school is. Similarly, merely placing a story in a typical fantasy setting is not an act of world-building. However, adding unique cultural elements, filling in details of daily life for the average person, etc are world-building elements. In the end, world-building is an extension of establishing the setting, where the writer fills in the gaps left by the template he/she is working from. Do you have elves? An elf is a template. What kind of culture do the elves have? That is world building (if you aren't working from an obvious template, lol).

Welcome to Fuwanovel. As for your VN project here, I have no much to say other than good luck on it. I hope you'll enjoy yourself here.

Thank you for the Oxford comma.

Well, this thread went places. Anyway, welcome to Fuwa! I'm just finishing Lyn;Lin and I like what it was going for at first, but... Why the infodumps? That's not how lovecraftian horror works. The moment the game starts explaining everything through plain narration, all the tension and mystery evaporates from it. :C

Won't read it until the art is better and it has voices. After the raging success of the previous series there is no excuse for this poor, yet expensive release.

Okay that was pretty entertaining I'm not sure how I feel about spoiling [well known visual novel] just for a joke, though I guess a lot of people including me will have played it lol You certainly have a unique style if nothing else lol

I am woman! Not man! Hear me roar! Hmm..... I need to look into that and upload downloadable versions of EEEEVVVERYthing. I didn't know it was giving those types of problems! EEK!!!! In the meantime here is the direct link to one and it's sequel. Prepare for weirdness: https://arcanecity.itch.io/the-virgin <--- first https://arcanecity.itch.io/arcane-city-lynlin <---- the (longer) sequel (which i think is better!)

Oops! That's what happens when i get locked in a sleep deprivation chamber no sleep! I forgot to add links! This is a result of me having Lynks Disease. I'll try to do better next time, I promise! Here is an important one though: take me outside of standard time and space

you know unlike most dev intros I actually enjoyed this one, it's weird how it doesn't link to anything though

After loading a save it worked this time? the hell Edit: I can reproduce the bug(?) easily by starting from the beginning. The transition only works if I load a save, which also makes a background image white where it would show a picture otherwise Edit 2: the save has to be close to the crash point to stop the bug from occurring as well. Edit 3: whoa these are some naughty hung processes

Okay so what happens for me is, the black screen at ~15:50 in the video never ends; it doesn't proceed to the next image, the settings cogwheel does nothing when clicked either. I guess the VN just hangs for me then? lol tyranobuilder

ጠልሃጌቿ. ጎ'ጠ ክዐፕ ነሁዪቿ ዘዐሠ ጎ ቻቿቿረ ልጌዐሁፕ ፕዘቿ ክዐክ-ቿክዕጎክኗ ቿክዕጎክኗ ቻዐዪ ልዪርልክቿ ርጎፕሃ ፕዘዐሁኗዘ.

I mean if this were a horror part I'd understand, but it sort of just looks bad here (the grammar nazi in me wants to add that the hyphen after occasion should be an en dash (a bit wider) or a nonspaced em dash)

Man, is there any way to download this stuff instead of playing it in the browser? The fullscreen button doesn't work, I have to completely disable ublock and noscript for the tab to get it to load, clicking new game takes ages to actually load the game with no feedback making you think it's just not working, and well html5 vns are not my fave