Torrents:
Mirrors:
So, we finally let the world see something concrete of our magnum opus, a preview of what's to come. I wonder what people are expecting when they open the game, especially the ones who are familiar with the project. The concept, when explained in the shortest possible manner ("a cripple dating game") sounds like something no sane man should have anything to do with, but hopefully the treatment we are giving to RAITA's idea is a satisfying experience. At the very least, I hope you have as much fun reading it as we had making it. From now on, we'll be working to finish the full version that contains the path stories.
Honestly, this much already feels like an achievement, looking back to all this time and the things that we've been through. There is no way I can concisely describe all of what has happened. There are a lot of things. Sediments of fossilized developement material on top of each other. Silly anecdotes about the daily life of a virtual game developement studio. People come, people gone. Blood and sweat and tears. You know something has been going for a long time when you can feel nostalgic about the early days, and this project really has been one big journey. But we have gotten somewhere now. We can look forward to the end of the road. It's still some way ahead, but it's there, somewhere.
See you all there.
We welcome feedback and comments, feel free to visit the forums or the IRC channel.
-Aura
67 comments:
Woohoo! Congrats on the demo release! Can't wait to try it out after finals today. Now this something to look forward to.
Yeah! This will be interesting!
Congratulations! I can't remember when I first started following this project but it seems like an eternity in internet-time :P
From what I've played so far, it's been a really engaging story and environment... it's almost 1am here (oops). The Ren'Py effects are mindblowingly cool!
Wow! I'm so happy!
Let my find my criticism cap before I start feeling positive emotions. I've been waiting to use it.
WOW! Congrats! :3
I'm downloading it as soon as I get home from work.
Awesome! I havent finished it yet, been playing for 4-5 hours now...time to take a break >_>;;;, but so far so good.
Im loving the characters so far. Im certainly liking Lily a lot more than I thought I would, but my favorite characters are still Shizune and Hanako.
I definitely can't wait for the full game to be released :D
Thank you and Congratulations on the demo!
This was a huge pick me up during finals week. I'm sure I'll be spending a good amount of time on this as a break from working.
I'm really surprised at the quality of the game so far. From what I played, it's extremely well done for a doujin work and it really exceeded my expectations.
Also, here's another mirror if you want.
http://eeh.maji.easymodo.net/KatawaShoujo/
Thanks, Eksopl, I'll add that to the mirror list.
What I've played so far has been great. Nice directing work too, after a while I wasn't really thinking of it as an object to criticize, but I was into the story and setting.
Looks real professional too, except for the lack of voices. But we know how all that goes.
Let's hope the full game delivers on the now greater expectations.
haven't really played any VN:s before, catched this on sankakucomplex and desided to try out, it was pretty fun to be honest. Will look forward to the full version!
Although Sankaku's article name..."4chan Releases Katawa Shoujo / Disability Girl Demo"... is certainly horribly inaccurate and bad journalism.
Excellent, already enjoying the story so far.
Thank you so much, as well as congratulations on releasing the first demo~ I've nearly forgotten about this project but thankfully stumbled across it once again.
This is the most impressive indie VN I've ever gone through. The art, writing, pacing, and emotion are all spot on.
However, if you're willing to take comments for improvement on the final model, it would be nice if you signified that it is Shizune who is talking when Shiina is interpreting for her. It can get a wee bit confusing. Perhaps having SHizune's name in parentheses after Shiina in the text box would help?
I downloaded and played the demo earlier today, and I absolutely enjoyed it. I'll make some more detailed comments if I stop by the forum. Keep up the great work, guys!
I just found out about Katawa Shoujo today. I have downloaded and finished one run though of the demo (I ended up with Emi) No words can describe how much I love it. Thank you so much for bringing such a work of art to the world. I think the story is very deep, touches on many issues I find relevent to my life, also its funny as hell and all the girls are so moe:D I cannot wait untill the final version is released, Till then I will be spending all my free time unlocking every scene in the game.
I was so excited to finally download it, that I was disappointed that it wouldn't run because it couldn't pixellate to 24 or 32 bit. Is there anyway to fix this problem?
Thoroughly impressed. Keep up the great work, guys!
Just played this through. Anyone knows how to end with Rin? She is the only one I'm missing.
Maybe later, when my thoughts become more objective, i'll leave criticism. But right now, I just think it's TEH AWESOME.
Amazing work, some of the best ive seen ever.
Just downloaded the demo after seeing it talked about on Sankaku. Its really good, keep up the great work guys. The characters are great and the story is pretty easy to get into, its been fun for the past few hours.
I don't know whether to love you or hate you. On the one hand, I'm loving the demo; on the other, I don't have the time for it now, as I am trying to not fail out of college. Good work. Keep doing what you're doing.
Kenji is the greatest character ever created in the history of stuff. Ever. Barring none.
If you were to remake the game, remove all dating elements, and instead turn it into some kind of awesome comedy/adventure piece where one of his crackpot theories turns out to be true, and he and the main character must band together in an epic, possibly worldspanning quest to save all mankind from the scourge of the whatever-it-is, incidentally forming an awesome straight man/screwball duo in the process, you would produce the greatest game ever made.
Which is odd, because I found the game as-is quite well-done, despite a few, possibly personal-computer-specific framerate issues.
That is all.
just finished the demo.i was really impressed. the characters blinded in with the background photos really well and it all felt in place. i like the fact that the characters have more animation than most VN's and the transitions are nice too. i also find the choice aspects of the game to be well placed, not to much to take away from the story but just enough that you dont get bored just clicking through. all in all a very good game and i look forward to playing the complete version whenever it comes out.
Awesome stuff - was glued to my seat for a large portion of the evening thanks to this... though, I'd have to ask that any future demos be released on a Friday or Saturday - having to wake up for work in the morning is going to be somewhat difficult considering how late I've stayed awake reading.
Superb quality through and through - looking forward to the finalized version now more than ever.
And, for the record, Hanako>*
This is so impressive. You guys seriously surprised me.
I've been following this project for a good year or so now, and I've been excitedly looking forward to a demo release. I was playing it most of last night, and I was nothing short of amazed. The work has gone above and beyond everything I expected. I absolutely love the game so far, and I can't wait for the series to continue!
Thank you!
Must I change my spectacles or I really am see Lulu in this picture?
http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=katawashoujoact101.jpg
BTW, thx & congrats for this release (^^). Can't wait for the full release.
I just have to say I'm impressed!I just heard about this VN yesterday and decided to give it a shot, specially since it as a native linux version, I still hadn't the time to finish the demo but so far I'm really impressed, superb artwork, interesting setting and storyline so far, I'm definitely quite looking forward for the full game, congrats and keep up the good work!
Okay, I downloaded this expecting a trainwreck. A visual novel based on cripples? Made by people from 4chan?
I'll be damned if it isn't good. Looking forward to the full release!
Wow, such a huge improvement since "Phase 3"! I'm amazed how it's better than I imagined. (I thought it was going to be a good game, but not THIS good!)
Thank you for making the great game.
Congrats and keep up the good work!
Very well done. I spent my afternoon going through it once without any other info, beat it once before going back to get other "ends". I always loved seeing how things ended up when I'd respond to things the way I would IRL, in this case...ahahaha. Not the best result. Keep up the amazing work!
wow, just a demo, but, it's getting me excited.
I wish I knew about this from a long time ago so I could have gotten involved in such a great work then instead of being a wannabe now.
Since the past does not change and what is here is wonderful, I will instead say EXCELLENT JOB. Keep up the good work!
I revoke the second half of my earlier comment now, after having gone through the game again to get the other endings. It's rather nice having Misha and Shizune's words flow in and out of each other.
This is.... amazing. Congratulations. I look forward to seeing where the story goes.
Rin is awesome. Strange, but definitely awesome.
Oh, wow. That was awesome. I totally loved the Rin route. This made my week. I hope the next acts are as good as this one.
this is a good game!
i already complete the demo in one day...all ending had been find
i'm looking for the full version,because i want to start dating with those girl XD
suppot u all!thanks!
p.s. i'm a player in Hong Kong
Man this IS AWESOME! Great production value, I work as a Game Tester and this is really really good, couple of bugs but nothing too noticeable. You should totally sell it because you deserve the props and I would be sure to buy it. Great Job, cant wait to play the full version, the story is pretty good and the dialogue is pretty good as well, i thought it was gonna be goofy 4chan speak but no, it's pretty professional 5 FREAKING STARS CAPS!
Awesome! Can't wait for the release.
Althouhg kenji can be a little too annoying at times
This is fucking awesome. I was srsly blown away. This is higher quality then most Japanese VNs. Fucking amazing! ...and Hanako is mai waifu
you are great...
plz write in japanese because its hard for me to understand english...
"GOD" Job!
HOLY HELL!
Played it... wow. Shizune is my favorite character, with Hanako easily 2nd.
Good job, guys (and gals!)
Wow!! I really looked forward to playing this super cool game XD I'm downloading and I can't wait to play this game!! Thank you so much for sharing. Congrats on the demo release!!
Hey, great game. The quality is really great, and I'm overall quite impressed.
However, I notice that some of the frames of Emi, her hair and her clothes have this weird overlap, where it looks like her hair passes in front of her clothes, but the lineart of her clothes passes in front of her hair. I thought it could have been a stylistic choice, but it doesn't look like any of the other girls' hair does that.
Simply amazing! The amount of work and effort you all put into this really shows through! The characters are all likable, and the only parts I wasn't overly fond of were when I was empathizing Hisao when he wasn't overly fond of the situation, but even then that was the result of good writing and a hero that I could relate to.
I also simply had to see every scene after I had finished my first play through, and I have to say the trouble I had finding that last scene differently showed how much detail went into the various routes through the story that I could take.
I should also point out that I liked how each ending gave a good enough wrap-up to give both a nice sense of conclusion that it could be a stand alone story and not just a demo, but still left me wanting more for the final product.
Again, it was simply a wonderful job!
Risk? That's for scrubs. Axis and Allies is where it's at.
Wow listen,
I was very wary of this when I first heard of it,
but you guys did a great job on the demo.
I have faith in you guys. Don't fuck it up.
I would pay for this, just to support you guys.
Trying it now, very impressive and professional. I've heard about this game when I first discovered 4chan years ago, so I'm sure this game has come a long way. Keep up the good work!
Just finished Act I, it was amazing. The only thing I disliked was when the credits started to roll, signifying that I'd reached the current stopping point in the story. Can't wait until it's finished.
So awesome great demo! Thanks for sharing.
Great stuff. Keep up the good work for the final release!
I hadn't heard of Katawa Shoujo before I saw it featured on Ren'Py's homepage, but I'm glad I saw it, because I've enjoyed it very, very much -- lovely art, interesting characters, and good writing. And the music! It's so pleasant I start up the game just to have the music running in the background. This is a game I'd be willing to pay money for. I hope to see the entire thing soon. Thank you all for the excellent work, and good luck!
I was going to write a deep post about how awesome the game is, but I can't think of anything, so all I have to say for now: AWESOME!
I just finished my 100% and I love em all, especially Emi even though her route was a bit short, but I have a thing for lolis <3
This game phenomenal!!
This is my first time playing an H-Game. I quite frankly don't care about the 'H' content at this point. This game is great without it.
The artwork, the music, the story and characters are all top notch! Can't wait for the finished product.
Great job!!
OMG!! I had play this game 1 week ago(I had play during 1 entire day!!11!!1!!1 awsome time) and I feel like I would like to translate this to my lenguage, could it be possible? I had seen that they are doing already for spanish so I would like to do it to catalan.
Awesome demo, almost done unlocking all the scenes. Can't wait for the full version.
epic win
i downloaded this the first day it came out, out of curiosity, barely getting around to it, i <3
Awesome game!.. i just stumbled on this blog and read it.. so far so good! keep up the good work guys! love it!
I can't wait for the full game.. though I think it would be a long time before it's released.. but still patience would win! :D
This game is going to be ridiculously awesome!!!!
YEAH
Hey guys I've been following your amazing project for awhile now and I always play the demo when I get the chance, I love it!
I also go on this blog at least four times a week to see if there is any updates.
I was wondering if you might have a date or estimation about when this amazing project will be done? If you do please don't hesitate to tell us I'm sure there are many more people wanting to know this as well.
Well if you do know when you might be done you could also email me at: ColeStevenson@hotmail.com
I will be waiting for your awnser with a hopeful heart!
Thank you for reading my comment and maybe also telling everyone your estimation.
Thanks!!!!
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