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I'll add a couple of examples to that "dissolve everything" that you don't really realize until you start working in a visual novel yourself.
 
First is the position of your dialogue and characters. In the past I thought that a lot of Visual Novels were still 800x600 just because they didn't know better, but that's not the main reason. The wider your resolution is, the more separated each of your elements in your novel will become. You need to get your text a lot higher that what you may think in the first place if you want the reader to be able to read and see the change on the sprites while reading. Check it yourselves, pick any VN with a good resolution, and compared where the dialogue box is compared to those at 800x600. You will suddenly notice how there a huge gap between the bottom of the screen and where the text start. Sometimes a smaller resolution makes everything easier for the eye when it comes to focusing your eyes to the screen.
 
Having the text going from one character to another is not as easy as just "changing the color of the name". When you read your own text is easy to know who's talking because you did it, but give it to someone else and he will probably have issues to know when someone is talking, destroying the entire flow of dialogues by a making him look for the name everytime. Reality is no one reads the name box and it's just there as support so you need to avoid this. The main trick most visual novels use for this are sound for dialogue, let it be voice actors or just beps like in the Ace Attorney series, or get sprites to the side of the box so that way you can know who is talking by the side of your eye. This is specially important when there are a couple character on screen, or if your main character has no sprites so dialogues don't get mixed. There are other techniques like making your sprites go darker when they are not talking, change the color of the boxes, make the boxes appear at different parts of the screen depending who's talking, etc...
 
Dissolving everything makes everything goes smoother, that's for sure, but at the same time it changes the flow of the of the dialogue compared to normal books A LOT. Now you suddenly have small stops of 0.5 seconds everytime a new character talks. This is not of a big problem most of the time, but there are moments you need your text to be fast or at least get quick reactions from your characters for a bigger impact. In this sense writting a visual novel is completly different to a normal book and you must look for ways to make it don't lose quality or impact with your own words. There's also some techniques like adding sound effects, shake effects, or transitions on the screen to develop this impact in different ways.
 
Talking about sound effects. They are not as important as you think. Never. In fact, having too many sound effects will even ridicule your text. If you pay attention to movies or anime you will see that a lot of times the sound effects used for some acctions have nothing to do with what the sound would actually be in real life, but again, it's more important to get an emotional or acction-reaction effect from the sfx that everything else. For Visual Novels this makes the sound effects to be less important since the actions and reactions are usually narrated and you won't have many scenes that require this effect. So don't get too frustated to get good sound effects, your music and your text are a million times more important.
 
And I'll leave it like that for now.

So not trying to sound cynical here but you ask people to give you reasons to learn a language but then: you don't wanna travel so you don't need languages to visit places, if the literature/comics/movies is translated (nowadays all the classics and great pieces for every language are translated at least into english) then you don't need it either, you don't really wanna join communities from people interested in X language or learn their culture either, and if it's a language that's not VASTLY used then you don't care because it's not useful.
Man, I don't know, it's like wanting to learn to drive without even thinking of getting inside a car. What's the point here? People is trying to give you reasons and you are just saying that all of them suck. You learn to drive for transportation and/or for love for cars, and you learn a language for communication and/or for love for their culture. If you just wanna learn a language but don't really have any purpose other that just learning then pick one randomly and go for it, it's not like it matters at the end anyways.

One Thousand Lies has been released officially today on Steam, please check it out: http://store.steampowered.com/app/463390/

It's free as always so download it even if you only wanna complete that Steam pokedex 
For those that have already played it, I would appreciate if you could add your own reviews to the page. Feel free to be sincere with those review, after all for me the most important thing is for you to be truthful... (/Claire off)

One Thousand Lies has been released officially today on Steam, please check it out: http://store.steampowered.com/app/463390/

It's free as always so download it even if you only wanna complete that Steam pokedex 
For those that have already played it, I would appreciate if you could add your own reviews to the page. Feel free to be sincere with those review, after all for me the most important thing is for you to be truthful... (/Claire off)

One Thousand Lies has been released officially today on Steam, please check it out: http://store.steampowered.com/app/463390/

It's free as always so download it even if you only wanna complete that Steam pokedex 
For those that have already played it, I would appreciate if you could add your own reviews to the page. Feel free to be sincere with those review, after all for me the most important thing is for you to be truthful... (/Claire off)

Steam store page is up, the game should be released this monday if everything goes well (depends on how long the higher ups on steam gives their approval). You can check it out here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/463390/

Steam store page is up, the game should be released this monday if everything goes well (depends on how long the higher ups on steam gives their approval). You can check it out here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/463390/

Congrats!  I did not even have time to vote, haha. 
The word about this game has been spreading through the forum quite fast, (and for good reason! This really is a gem.)
Hopefully the steam greenlight will make it even more popular. 

seems quality works DO pay off in the end though. congrats & definitely looking forward to whats possibly next to come (a man can dream). to me OTL biggest plus is that it doesnt feel linguistically like its been written by some semi-nerdy 12year old, but rather with some real thoughts & skills behind.

THE GAME HAS BEEN GREENLIT!!! Thank you everyone! I can't believe this, it only took 8 days to pass the greenlight!!! I thought it would take forever, this is amazing, I'm jumping right now. This is incredible. Thank you!

THE GAME HAS BEEN GREENLIT!!! Thank you everyone! I can't believe this, it only took 8 days to pass the greenlight!!! I thought it would take forever, this is amazing, I'm jumping right now. This is incredible. Thank you!

THE GAME HAS BEEN GREENLIT!!! Thank you everyone! I can't believe this, it only took 8 days to pass the greenlight!!! I thought it would take forever, this is amazing, I'm jumping right now. This is incredible. Thank you!

That's rather fast actually
Congratulations

THE GAME HAS BEEN GREENLIT!!! Thank you everyone! I can't believe this, it only took 8 days to pass the greenlight!!! I thought it would take forever, this is amazing, I'm jumping right now. This is incredible. Thank you!

Upvoted!
I haven't gotten very far yet, but it looks great!

I love reading theories, just according to keikaku  I'm glad you liked it FinalChaos, it's always great to hear people feedback and opinions about the novel. Especially if they are positive (but I'm open to hate in case you want :P)
About the spoilers, I won't really tell "what happens" since I prefer to leave it so people can discuss about it, but I'll give a tip because everyone is always doing me the same question once they finish it lol
And that's it, maybe after some time I'll decide to give all the answers and all the details in the novel in case somebody care by then (>implying somebody cares about it now).

Finished it a while back.
It was amazing.                     
I really enjoyed the comedy and the characters. The story itself was well structured and the execution was done nicely too. I actually liked the ost quite a bit and all the tracks were well used.
I do one question regarding Claire though:

Alrighty then, just downloaded the game, i'll be sure to give feedback when I get the chance, although got a bunch on my plate already.

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Hope it gets you a wider audience

So I have a great announcenment. The Steam Greenlight for One Thousand Lies is a go! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=660334350

I wasn't really planning to do this at the beginning but a lot of people told me to try it out and that it would be cool to see the game in Greenlight, and here we are! If you liked the novel or just feel generous, I would appreciate your votes, and also share around online so everyone finds out.
The support until now has been great, a lot of people seems to like it and we are close to the one thousand downloads. I never expected this much, and for that I love you guys <3

So I have a great announcenment. The Steam Greenlight for One Thousand Lies is a go! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=660334350

I wasn't really planning to do this at the beginning but a lot of people told me to try it out and that it would be cool to see the game in Greenlight, and here we are! If you liked the novel or just feel generous, I would appreciate your votes, and also share around online so everyone finds out.
The support until now has been great, a lot of people seems to like it and we are close to the one thousand downloads. I never expected this much, and for that I love you guys <3

So I have a great announcenment. The Steam Greenlight for One Thousand Lies is a go! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=660334350

I wasn't really planning to do this at the beginning but a lot of people told me to try it out and that it would be cool to see the game in Greenlight, and here we are! If you liked the novel or just feel generous, I would appreciate your votes, and also share around online so everyone finds out.
The support until now has been great, a lot of people seems to like it and we are close to the one thousand downloads. I never expected this much, and for that I love you guys <3

Android version is up!

Free Download from Google Play
You will also find a link in itchio to download it.
I have also updated the other platforms to version 1.2 (1.1 died on the way, rest in peace). I fixed some minor bugs and typos so everything should be nicer.
Thanks everyone for your support and I hope you enjoy reading the novel!

So I have a great announcenment. The Steam Greenlight for One Thousand Lies is a go! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=660334350

I wasn't really planning to do this at the beginning but a lot of people told me to try it out and that it would be cool to see the game in Greenlight, and here we are! If you liked the novel or just feel generous, I would appreciate your votes, and also share around online so everyone finds out.
The support until now has been great, a lot of people seems to like it and we are close to the one thousand downloads. I never expected this much, and for that I love you guys <3