Nobody has asked that ironically.
I don't really know because I am stuck. I wanna say Fate/Stay Night, but that Heaven's Feel route was trash.
I wanna say Ever17, but the game tricks you way too much. It forces you down certain routes to achieve the perfect end. It was years before Neir Automata would pull off the same shit. At least that game had philosophy to keep my overthinking ass at bay.
Maybe, Higruashi but I am just going to say that I haven't found one yet. I am hoping that Kara no shoujo would be my favorite. That's not answer now is it.
So, I will say Ace Attorney, because those are VNs. Just not like the ones we're used to, and my favorite case was Bridge to Turnabout. That case is made all the more special after you finish the trilogy.
Long post alert!
So, I learned how to code from college and online.
If you are broke I recommend and wanna learn web
https://www.freecodecamp.org
If you have money, I recommend you do this udemy tutorial for web
https://www.udemy.com/the-complete-web-developer-course-2/learn/v4/overview
Also this is the homework I had to do. I had to make a blog for advanced web authoring class this semester.
https://ilovephp.jondh.me.uk/en/tutorial/make-your-own-blog
For web, I used to recommend Notepadd++, but then I found VS Code and never looked back.
Every good coder needs a good editor.
It's like an IDE, minus the fact that's quick. I am looking at you Netbeans and Android Studio!!!
Now things get interesting for mobile.
If you plan on building android apps, I highly recommend this tutorial from Udemy.
https://www.udemy.com/complete-android-developer-course/
BEST 5$ I HAVE EVER SPENT.
But if you are broke again,
this was my first android tutorial
https://www.udacity.com/course/new-android-fundamentals--ud851
if you want to get into iOS, try
https://www.udemy.com/ios-11-app-development-bootcamp/
Best $10 I have ever spent.
If you plan on making VNs like me, learn python. My first tutorial was
https://www.udacity.com/course/programming-foundations-with-python--ud036
It's the language of the Ren'Py engine. Of course, Ren'Py takes in it's own syntax. Arguments. etc, but some of the best VNs are coded very well.
They are pretty damn eloquent, and then you look at mine from 2016. People will say
"Did this bitch forget how to encapsulate?"
But remember, I took the course after I fell off from my VN back in early 2017.
Now, if you wanna see an A+ site. A website that kept me at 98% percent have a look here.
https://thai-morris.github.io/CSC-223/
Jokes aside, if you wanna see a professional website I built for my normie friends. I used bootstrap.
genzcapitalgroup.com
Quick facts: HTML is just the structure and layout of the website.
CSS is what makes the website look sexy.
Javascript is what makes the website do sexy things, from animation, rearranging items, lightboxes, (you know when you click on an image and the surrounding the area gets dark. I have that example on my github from class.)
Bootstrap is a framework that makes building websites easier, it's a combination of HTML, CSS, and JS. It was developed by Twitter.
Now what I described was one-half of web dev. The client side.
If you wanna make static websites that just look pretty then that's that.
The other half is server-side. Which is when you have code like PHP that runs on a server and reacts dynamically on the website itself.
For example, as I post this long ass post. My device sends a message to the Fuwanovel server.
my device: "Yo, Happiness+ posted something!"
Fuwanovel forum server: "I see. Hold on lemma add this."
It gets added to the database which is usually in a SQL language. Every post has an ID associated with the user, and every time it's added it automatically updates. PHP is the langauge that most people use for stuff like this, but some smart kid found out that JavaScript can run a server. Hence NodeJS was born. However these days web design is more of a art than a science, trends rise. Others fall into obscurity. Most people getting into development learn Node and forget PHP because it's not hip and cool anymore.
I could go more into detail about the different types of servers like SQLlite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
But, it depends on what kind of project you are making, if it's a VN.
Just go ren'py.org and go the Lemmasoft Forums. Most of the time, they will just redirect you to the documentation.
Any more questions?
Since herkz dropped Mahoutsukai no Yoru for translation. People forgot about it. Which sucks because this game is worth the translation. So, I have a weird idea. We can crowd source the translation. Like we could put it on GitHub or something and translate what’s left of it. If you don't like this idea, how about we see how Mirror Moon is doing since I think they did a fantastic job with Fate/Stay Night and Tsukihime. Or we could ask one of the bigger publishers like manga gamer to pick up the license. It will just be damn shame that this game remains inaccessible because of language barriers. I don't know how to translate, but I do know how to code and get shit done.
Welcome to Fuwa!
You were jumped by a gang of all girls? That's horrifying, girls can be pretty scary at times
Anyway, I hope you enjoy your time here and I wish you luck on your projects.
Yeah VNs ruined my life and made me into a salty individual that hates everything now. They frustrate me because of how often potential is wasted, interesting worlds, characters, and ideas all wasted for sex scenes, shoe horned romance, and character tropes to make weebs buy them.
Hello there. Let me introduce myself, I am Happiness+.
Why happiness+? don't know.
Maybe I have Hate+ subconsciously on my mind for some reason.
Background: Grew up in Detroit. ghetto shit. I was even jumped by a gang.... of all girls.
Began programming since 16 years of age. I know how to make websites and mobile apps. Nothing too advanced but stuff that can impress literally anyone that isn't a comp sci major. Fell in love with anime since Sailor Moon in the 90's. My first VN was this. I love visual novels; I think they are the best medium to combine both cinematography and literary depth. I was working on a visual novel back in 2016, but then crap happened and I left the internet for a while. I've decided to come back, and do something good for the medium. Maybe lead a translation project or finish my own VN. Both? I don't know.
No question is off-limits.
I am currently reading Kara no Shojo. I just installed the game yesterday, but did'nt read it because I had a french quiz today.
I have been itching for a good horror since I finished the hirgurashi series. I mean saya is good, but I like to feel like when I solve through it.
By the way, I love this site's design. It looks so sophisticated, and it updates in real time. I didn't know forums could be this modern.
Also, my profile pic is a sprite from my VN.
I have a week to myself, because it's spring break. Woot!
AAAANNNDDD, I have run out of things to say. Nice to meet you guys.
ooh, a deep question, I am really grateful for all the good things in my life. Like seriously, I am watching the new breadwinner film, and it's rough seeing how people lived in the Taliban. I go to a decent university in the south. I have food, water, shelter, and peace of mind since it's spring break. I mean I have free time to play Kara no Shoujo and join a new forum. That's epitome of privilege. Sure, I am not as wealthy as I want to be, but I am a computer science major that graduates in 2019. So yeah, no worries there.
Air
Summary
Kunisaki Yukito's deceased mother left him with the doll and her last wish that Yukito look for the "girl in the skies" because it is his destiny to save her. Only half-understanding what his mother meant, Yukito has been traveling across Japan, vainly searching for this myth-like girl his mother told him about. His latest destination is a small, sleepy town where summer has just arrived; and his encounter with a young girl named Misuzu there sets the wheels of destiny turning...
Ending Guideline / Suggested Route Order
Route Guideline
Kamio Misuzu
Kirishima Kano
Toono Minagi
Summer
Air
Attribution
This walkthrough is based on info attained on g-seeker.net with some adjustments made by me.
I sleep with my device. I tried once upon a time to run Fate/Stay Night on my phone.... it worked fine for a bit. So, I was on the crapper reading my VN. That is until my got suspicious for why I was spending hours on the toilet.....
This is honestly why I hate Reddit as a whole so much. It's so god damn authoritarian. This doesn't relate to the vn sub-reddit, but once I had a few questions about something really niche. And the only active community I could find to ask these questions was a reddit community. But the mods wouldn't allow me to post my own topic until I had a certain post count and "like" ratio. I mean, wtf!? I just wanted to ask a simple question, get an answer, and leave. That kind of authoritarian structure really bothers me and makes it a pain in the ass for new users.
The regular forum style like fuwa is way better. Fuwa has good mods that do their job, and they aren't authoritarian. They pretty much never try to control the discourse that happens on the site. Fuwa users are free to talk about what we want with only a few reasonable exceptions.
As communities age, a mythology tends to build up around their origins, with past eras vaguely alluded to as “golden ages.” I’ve seen this happen with reddit’s /r/visualnovels, a place I moderated during its most transformative stage, so I thought I’d offer my insider’s take on its history: what we’d hoped to achieve as moderators, the unintended side-effects of our policies, and why I think /r/visualnovels is stagnating these days. Fuwanovel isn't /r/visualnovels, but there's a lot of overlap in the fandom and I thought that given Ange's recent "state of the fandom" post, you guys might find it interesting. Given my acrimonious departure from the subreddit, you should take this with a grain of salt, but hopefully you'll get something from it~
The Birth of /r/visualnovels
The very first posts on /r/visualnovels.
/r/visualnovels was founded in late 2009 by /u/Hpdarkman525 (the former account of /u/gambs), who made one post about the upcoming Umineko ep5 fan translation and then promptly forgot about the sub. At this time, the VN fandom consisted primarily of those who had learned Japanese to read VNs, and those who wished they had. Official localisations were almost non-existent, and the fandom hung off the words of the few fan translators. Knowing about VNs felt like knowing a secret, like a secret handshake to be acknowledged as a fellow western otaku.
This didn’t really change until early 2012 with the release of Katawa Shoujo. We now had a Western VN that was free, easy to install (no fiddling with system locale), pretty well written (no cliche cries of “baka” or “onii-chan”), and handled a delicate subject (disability and self-identity) with a sensitivity that really spoke to a lot of gamers. The optional nature of the adult content helped attract horny teenagers while still retaining an air of respectability. KS managed something no other VN had: attention from the mainstream gaming crowd. It drew a huge wave of new fans to the medium, among which were /u/coldacid and /u/Kuiper who became mods on /r/visualnovels and began to promote it.
While the influx of new members gave birth to the community, with newbies becoming veterans, the continued dominance of KS in the VN scene began to wear thin (it wasn’t until 2016 that the number of /r/visualnovels subscribers outnumbered /r/katawashoujo). Especially grating for veterans was the cry of KS as “the best VN ever written” from those who had only ever read that one VN. The constant stream of “what do I read after KS” and rudimentary technical questions on getting Japanese VNs working drowned out the rare news posts or broader discussion threads. The mod team had a hands-off attitude to it, they’d only remove spam or blatant trolling. This only changed in early 2014 when a relatively unknown user, /u/insanityissexy, requested a mod position...
The Rise of Insanity
Insanityy was a member of the old-guard, being drawn to the medium for Japanese VNs and caring little for what she saw as a pale-imitation in Western VNs. With no regard for the old mods, she singlehandedly brought order to a community that had been lawless. She began with a ban on posts for technical support questions and VN recommendation requests. Instead, they should be asked in the new weekly questions thread so as to clear up the front page for news posts and more substantial discussion threads.
While this move was broadly welcomed by most of the subreddit regulars, it caused some disruption as activity on the sub plummeted. With the western VN scene so small, news was rare and the number of daily posts dropped from 2-4 to just 1. While some grumbled, others were enthused in having an active moderator who cared about the sub. /u/kowzz started a discussion thread on what we could do to improve activity on the sub, and from that discussion he started the weekly Sunday discussion posts and I started the weekly “what are you reading” posts. Unlike the questions sticky, the intention wasn’t to curtail activity outside of these weekly posts, but to provide a supplement to the usual discussions and encourage users to comment more.
With such regular discussion posts, users started to bump into each other more often and a sense of community began to build. On a personal level, I also grew to know insanityy better as we exchanged dozens of increasingly lengthy PMs (so much so that each reply wouldn’t fit within the 10k character limit, we had to send our replies in 3 parts), with us quickly becoming close friends.
Later that year, I proposed an overhaul of the user flairs. The subreddit only offered a basic vndb icon. I wanted to expand that to hundreds of options with a larger profile picture offset to the side of a user’s post as a way to personalise each user. With enough options, I hoped it’d be easier to identify users at a glance and it’d add some character to the subreddit. I was admitted to the mod team to oversee the flair changes, but was soon upgraded to full mod status after a few months on insanityy’s urging.
The two of us fed off each other’s passion as we sought to build a more active, mature, and compassionate community. We never paid any heed to the old mods, mod policy was discussed between us on google hangouts and implemented immediately.
To foster a sense of community, we aimed to have a community event once a month: best X contests, census surveys, recommendation charts, fanart contests, halloween/april fool themes being among just some of the activities we organised. We even got Mangagamer to sponsor some contests with free VNs.
To foster a sense of community, we aimed to have a community event once a month: best X contests, census surveys, recommendation charts, fanart contests, halloween/april fool themes being among just some of the activities we organised. We even got Mangagamer to sponsor some contests with free VNs.
We downplayed the seedier parts of the medium, nukige news was banned and discussions on “fapping” were frowned upon. Neither of us were against porn, we’re both fans, but we feared it’d attract a more neckbeard-type audience.
We aggressively went after trolls, but not by banning them. We had automod automatically remove comments from users prone to cause drama, then we’d manually approve non-trollish comments. That way everyone was able to participate in our community, but bad behaviour wasn’t rewarded with lots of attention.
In the following year, insanityy asked the inactive older mods to resign. Kuiper recognised that he was no longer needed and respectfully stepped down. Coldacid said his inactivity was only temporary and he’d be back, but later left reddit for voat as part of an anti-censorship protest. Gambs asked us to drop the subject as he didn’t want to step down, so we carried on ignoring him.
We also added new members to the mod team: /u/FunwithGravity for his knowledge of Japanese, /u/Cornetto_Man because he got along with everyone, and /u/Avebone because he was active at times when the rest of us were asleep. They were added primarily to approve posts mistakenly removed by automod when me and insanityy were afk and had little input on mod policy.
Everything seemed to be going great, we had a growing community that we got along with, trolls were few and far between, and our moderation seemed popular. Then we got a modmail suggesting we try out a new chat program called Discord...
Discord on Discord
When /u/Kowzz and /u/Arcanus44 suggested creating a Discord server, we were initially skeptical. It sounded just like irc, and the /r/visualnovels irc channel had been comatose for years. However Kowz and Arc promised to take care of it for us, Kowz would create the server and Arc would drum up interest. So in Sept 2015, Arc hosted a “meet n’ greet” in voice chat on Discord. While it was by most accounts a success and quite popular, we got some complaints about inappropriate conduct by a couple of users and decided that if this Discord server was going to be linked with /r/visualnovels, we’d need to take an active hand in making sure it maintained our standards.
Kowz was happy to have us onboard, making us admins on Discord. It all seemed smooth, but underneath the surface, the seed of turmoil had been planted in our differing beliefs on who owned the server. Kowz and Arc considered themselves the owners and we were partners, while we considered them to have created the server on our behalf and that it’d run on our principles. Up until then, we’d not had any disagreements on mod policy. Me and insanityy would talk an issue out, if we agreed, we’d propose it to the rest of the mod team and vote on it. We’d picked mods who generally thought the same as us, so votes were normally unanimous. That wasn’t the case with Discord. Kowz and Arc had different ideals on how to run a community, and our usual resolution process of voting felt unfair to them as we outnumbered them 5 to 2.
The problem only got worse with time as insanityy hated arguments so she avoided the staff discussions on Discord and popped in only to vote. Arc and Kowz felt increasingly marginalised by this and that their opinion wasn’t being heard. This led to a standoff where Kowz and Arc demanded their 2 votes should count for as much as the rest of us combined, while we /r/visualnovels mods threatened to create a new server unless we kept one vote each. Discussions got heated until Kowz and Arc eventually backed down. In protest, they chose to stop participating as mods.
While Discord helped bring friends together, it also brought those that disliked each other together. It’s easy to ignore someone on reddit as its tree structure allows for parallel conversations, but the format of Discord makes that harder. This started to become a problem on the server, especially as Discord attracted a different type of user to the subreddit, those who had little patience for the more verbose and patient discussions of the subreddit. We got complaints from the subreddit veterans about some of the newbies but we weren’t sure what to do. Being disliked isn’t a bannable offense, but it was driving away some valued community members.
We didn’t want to create a separate server that split the community, so our misguided solution was the creation of a hidden channel: #sub_regs (a.k.a. the fanclub) that was invite only and accessed via the tableflipper role. The hope was that it’d serve as a backup channel for when #general was annoying and that it’d keep the community veterans on the server. However it ended up encouraging an elitist attitude that divided the community further.
The Fall of /r/visualnovels
With many of the friendly conversations and community atmosphere moving to Discord, the subreddit began to suffer. Inside jokes that were incomprehensible to those not on Discord were frequent, and the community split between those using Discord and those not.
There was also a degree of burnout among the mods. It’s inevitable for all mods, you spend long enough dealing with the worst of the community, the trolls and the spammers, and you begin to develop an us-vs-them mentality. You retreat from the community and draw closer to your fellow mods, looking down upon the normal users. We mods gradually stopped being members of the community and instead became overseers.
Then there was my messy departure from the sub in April 2016. Due to a range of factors: financial difficulties, gender dysphoria, and some toxic “friends,” I became deeply depressed and tried to commit suicide. My fellow subreddit mods (and best friend insanityy) decided the best response was to out me as transgender, block me on social media, and ban me from the subreddit I’d loved so deeply. Insanityy never spoke to me again.
The rest of this is speculation, I was no longer an insider, but from my perspective it looked like this event accelerated the emotional distance insanityy felt from the subreddit as she stopped caring about the community. She tried to carry on as normal at first, running a few contests, maintaining the animated banners I’d once made, but her heart wasn’t in it. She resigned later that year.
With her went the desire to innovate, to improve the community. The remaining mods were followers, not leaders. They could maintain some cosmetic updates and copy the old contests, but they were unable to do anything new. They enlarged the mod team with an additional four members, but it only increased the sense of inertia and made it even harder to get anything done. The subreddit began to feel stale.
The mod team had also become unbalanced, where once me and insanityy spoke up for minority tastes in EVNs and otomes, now the mod team was dominated by Japanese VN fans just as the VN scene was increasingly embracing EVNs. The subreddit felt more elitist than ever just as the medium had never been more diverse.
Unintended Side Effects
While our policies may have made sense at the time, some of the decisions me and insanityy had made began to have a detrimental impact on the subreddit:
We’d brought on Automod to help remove posts when only me and insanityy had to manage everything. We found having a bot leave the removal comment sparked fewer arguments with OP than if one of us did it, and it was more effective at catching spam. But while we strived to reapprove mistakenly removed posts promptly, sometimes OP deleted their post before we could. Psychologically, it also made it dangerously easy to leave some content removed. As we mods burnt out over the years, our standards for what counted as a worthy post kept getting higher with fewer and fewer posts being approved. The end result has been a severe drop in discussion posts on the sub.
We’d brought on Automod to help remove posts when only me and insanityy had to manage everything. We found having a bot leave the removal comment sparked fewer arguments with OP than if one of us did it, and it was more effective at catching spam. But while we strived to reapprove mistakenly removed posts promptly, sometimes OP deleted their post before we could. Psychologically, it also made it dangerously easy to leave some content removed. As we mods burnt out over the years, our standards for what counted as a worthy post kept getting higher with fewer and fewer posts being approved. The end result has been a severe drop in discussion posts on the sub.
When recruiting new moderators, we sought people who thought as we did so mod decisions would be consistent and there wouldn’t be arguments in the mod chat. Modding is stressful enough without the stress coming from within the mod team. However, as you add more mods who agree with you, you can start to have an inflated view of how widespread your opinion is. A circlejerk mentality builds and outside opinion is increasingly easy to dismiss. This can leave users feeling like their opinions don’t matter to the mods and builds resentment.
Insanityy was a kind soul and hated conflict, she avoided disagreements as much as possible. As a friend, this was fine, but as a mod it meant she avoided openly discussing mod policy on the subreddit as inevitably there would be some disagreement. This lack of discussion with the sub made it hard for users to object to the direction the sub took, allowing the mod team to grow out of touch with what the userbase wants.
Hopes for the Future
While I may have been quite critical of the current state of the subreddit, I think the community is a good one and there’s hope for improvement. A smaller, more motivated mod team would help, as well as scaling back some of the restrictions like the question and image-post ban. Let activity on the subreddit explode. Should low-quality content grow to become a problem, perhaps /r/visualnovels should split just as /r/gaming and /r/games have, or perhaps a split between Japanese and English VNs would help?
Not every idea will work out, but what’s important is to be trying new ideas and be responsive to change rather than clinging to an outdated format.
As I said at the start, please remember this isn’t an impartial view on the history of the sub and that this isn’t meant to downplay the hard work of the current mod team. Modding is exhausting, it’s a constant burden with little praise. Even if I consider them poor mods, it doesn’t make them bad people.
I know she won’t ever read this, nor will she care what I think, but I still believe insanityy was an inspirational mod and a wonderful friend. It’s incredibly hard to go it alone like she did when she first took over /r/visualnovels. She stood up for what she thought /r/visualnovels could be and put in so much effort, every day, rain or shine, she never shirked from her responsibilities. I miss her every day.
If anyone wants to know more or say hi, you can contact me here on Fuwanovel, tumblr,, twitter, or Discord (Sunleaf_Willow ／(^ n ^=)＼#1616)
Hello there. Let me introduce myself, I am Happiness+.
Why happiness+? don't know.
Maybe I have Hate+ subconsciously on my mind for some reason.
Background: Grew up in Detroit. ghetto shit. I was even jumped by a gang.... of all girls.
Began programming since 16 years of age. I know how to make websites and mobile apps. Nothing too advanced but stuff that can impress literally anyone that isn't a comp sci major. Fell in love with anime since Sailor Moon in the 90's. My first VN was this. I love visual novels; I think they are the best medium to combine both cinematography and literary depth. I was working on a visual novel back in 2016, but then crap happened and I left the internet for a while. I've decided to come back, and do something good for the medium. Maybe lead a translation project or finish my own VN. Both? I don't know.
No question is off-limits.
I am currently reading Kara no Shojo. I just installed the game yesterday, but did'nt read it because I had a french quiz today.
I have been itching for a good horror since I finished the hirgurashi series. I mean saya is good, but I like to feel like when I solve through it.
By the way, I love this site's design. It looks so sophisticated, and it updates in real time. I didn't know forums could be this modern.
Also, my profile pic is a sprite from my VN.
I have a week to myself, because it's spring break. Woot!
AAAANNNDDD, I have run out of things to say. Nice to meet you guys.
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