Merry Christmas from 4LS

Merry Christmas, everyone! Our traditional Secret Santa has been completed successfully, hopefully everyone has enjoyed the event as much as we have. Due to circumstances, we had one extra artwork done for the SS, which you can see above as a bonus. This lovely robotics themed illustration of the Katawa Shoujo cast is, of course, the work of the one and only kamifish.


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Four Leaf Studios Secret Santa 2012

We 4LS are in some odd ways a tightly knit bunch, which I guess is not surprising considering how much time we've spent together over the years. Along the way all sorts of habits, traditions and inside jokes pile up, the culture of this small group of internet friends. One of the 4LS traditions is to hold a fan art -themed Secret Santa in the month of December, and this year we're doing it again. I was roped into organizing the thing and invited 4LS members, KS translation team members and some friends of ours to participate and share the season's spirit.

Everyone got to make one wish for a piece of Katawa Shoujo fan art, and the requests were randomly distributed amongst the participants. Every day from tomorrow till Christmas Eve, we'll reveal one of the finished art pieces on our Secret Santa 2012 minisite. If you are following our twitter account, it will autotweet the reveals daily.

I hope this will make the Christmas season just a little bit more magical for you too!

- Aura

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Katawa Shoujo at Comiket 83

The Katawa Shoujo Japanese translation team seems to have become a permanent fixture for the Comic Market at Tokyo Big Sight. For the Comiket 83 happening in next month, they'll be once again participating. This time their new sales item is the Japanese edition of Tomorrow/Today, which was originally released at Los Angeles' Anime Expo in June this year.

You'll find us on the third day (31st December) in East Hall 2, table T-08a right along one of the main hallways. If you're in Tokyo around New Years, come and say hello!

Katawa Shoujo at Anime Expo 2012

Four Leaf Studios and Katawa Shoujo will make a showing at the Anime Expo this year. It runs from the 29th of June to the 2nd of July, and will be held in Los Angeles, California, USA.

While we won't be holding a panel, there will be a couple of tables in the Artist Alley staffed by developers. You can meet weee, gebyy, Suriko and Pimmy Losstarot, and pick up the new Katawa Shoujo artbook, Tomorrow/Today. It runs 32 pages, and is in full colour.

We will be at two tables, located at A52 and A53 (adjacent to one another).

 - Suriko


Update: Please see this handy dandy chart for where we are located.


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A Stalker's Guide to 4LS

So it turns out a whole lot of people out there think just because we made KS, we are interesting people. "Tell us more about yourselves" has been requested a whole bunch, and so has links to our blogs and whatnot. So, I thought I'd collate all the 4LS web presence to one place. There's actually not all that much of it, and it's not like we are hard to find (for instance, 4LS twitter follows all the devs' private twitters), but when people can't find one of us, they come to me or someone else asking. So here's everything I could remember off the top of my head, minus private stuff. I'll try to keep this post updated I suppose, so it's possible to refer to it in future as well, and I expect people to complain to me that something that shouldn't be here is or vice versa

- Aura

Four Leaf Studios 
twitter: @fourleafstudios 
email: staff@katawa-shoujo.com 

Aura 
twitter: @sharpened_C 
blog


climatic 
twitter: @climaticsays 
twitter: @not_climatic 

cpl_crud 
blog
twitter: @ONeillCam

delta 
twitter: @deltakurshiva 

kamifish 
deviantart 

Mike Inel 
deviantart
Facebook 

NicolArmarfi 
Youtube 
twitter: @nicolarmarfi


Pimmy 
twitter: @curepimmy 
deviantart 

Raide 
twitter: @Fiohnel 
Google+

TheHivemind
blog 
twitter: @thehivemindstw

weee 
twitter: @_weee_ 
blog
deviantart

The rest, as far as I know, don't have public web presence/contact possibilities aside from the KS forums or IRC.

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Katawa Shoujo at Comitia 100

 I totally missed this by a week, but thought I'd mention it anyway. Our ever active Japanese friends attended the Comitia100 doujin event last weekend. The venue was packed with 5000 doujin circles and a throng of visitors, many of who picked up the 冬至 - Midwinter artbook for themselves. Once again a successful event for us.

In other news, progress on the Japanese translation (and others, I trust) is steady, while the main dev team has been gathering their strength over the spring. Hope everyone will have a great summer!

- Aura

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April Fools: Katawa Shoujo HD rerelease!

Man, time sure flies. It's been four months since we released KS, even though it feels like it was just last week. As we all know, the aftermath was rather exhausting so we've wanted to move on.

Seems like we're stuck. We've listened to the feedback from our unbelievably cool fans (yes, you), and wanted to act on it. So, we ran down the list of things that were the most requested and more importantly, doable and made two of them happen. Please enjoy the newly improved Katawa Shoujo!

Get the release here

Since it's a rerelease, the game is unchanged except for:

High definition

All right, let's be honest: using 800x600 pixel resolution in 2012 doesn't make sense. So, enjoy KS now in glorious 1080p resolution.

Objectionable content removed

We removed all content that could be interpreted as "inappropriate". Simple as that, and absolutely everyone should be happy now.

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