Hehe, ramblers unite :D
I'm glad the stuff actually came off as funny :3 And man, yeah, I really love LPB's unimpressed faces for Nine! They are so expressive, haha. Well, all of the expressions are, but the unimpressed ones are probably my favourite because Nine just looks so fed up x3
I'm always up for different kinds of collabs :D Since working with a team on Otome Jam this year, I've discovered that I much prefer working on teams than solo when it comes to jams! I don't really ever wanna work solo on a jam again now x3
Dialogue is also my favourite thing to write so *high five* hehe. Well, if we do wind up making something for a Valentine's Jam, you could always hop on board and help me out with some of the writing! Especially when this type of game is the sort that could really use additional writers for more variation in the phone calls :3
I don't think it's that weird that you'd want to date Kiol because tbh, I would xD I just kinda feel sorry for Kiol really!
Ahh, fair enough x3 Yeah, I have no idea how lots of save/load and skipping affects different people's PCs because my computer is fairly decent so if I do it a lot, I don't have a problem, BUT, if I were to do the same thing on my old laptop, it would definitely crash >.< My laptop struggles to even run VNs. It takes like 10 mins just to launch SR on there xD It's really tough to know what sort of settings to use when it's impossible to predict what system specs people have. I would have put more loads into Limbo Line so that it didn't take as long to load stuff, but I was worried about the folks who played A9 and said their PCs didn't like lots of loading >.< I just dunno what a good balance is!
As for the voices and skip, it sort of is a Unity/NaniNovel thing but it's also largely down to the way I make stuff with my multiple expression changes in one line of text x3
So, basically, in NaniNovel, there is the option to like drag and drop voice lines into the script using something called the voice map utility. There are a few different ways of doing it, but the main thing is that it saves you from having to write code for every single voice line you want to add like you would do when adding SFX. And it does make things a hell of a lot easier!
And there is an option within the text printers that you use to stop playing voice lines when the next line of text appears. This would presumably be what you would use if you wanted every voice line to stop playing as soon as you move on. However, it conflicts with the way I like to add several expression changes per line of dialogue >.<
Basically, I add the expression changes within the text, so that they happen while the text is scrolling and the player is reading, BUT, when you add them in the middle of the text, even though the text is all on one line, Nani then treats it as though it is separate lines, broken up by the expression changes. So not like 10, 11, 12, but more like 10.1, 10.2, 10.3. And when I tick the option within the text printers to stop playing dialogue on each new line, it messes with my inline expression changes because as soon as it reaches expression change no1, it thinks that the line is over, so it stops playing the voice line mid-sentence >.<”
I've yet to find a way around this! There must be one. And if there's not, I'm sure the software dev would add something to make it possible. But for now, the only way I can have multiple expression changes in 1 sentence is to also have voice lines still playing during skip. Thankfully, each new voice line does immediately stop the previous one from playing so that it's not too much of a cacophony, haha.
I did read somewhere once that the best way to improve your writing is to keep at it, so I guess that's all I can do x3 I do feel like I've improved since SR at least! It sucks you also struggle with low self-confidence too sometimes :( It's a really hard place to climb out of when you're down there. That's a really wonderful way of looking at things though! I never really thought of viewing it like that because I often end up seeing what others have made and think to myself, wow, that's amazing... I can't possibly do anything like that >.< and it sorta makes me feel like crap xD I'll try to compare myself to myself rather than to others from now on :3 Thank you! Have some *hugs back* :D
I can totally believe that RPG Maker is harder than it looks because I have one of the versions on Steam that came in the same bundle as Tyrano, and I loaded it up one day without having looked at any tutorials, and I just thought O.O that looks terrifying xD And I've never gone any further with it, haha.
Yeah, I couldn't have wished for a lovelier, harder working, more supportive team :3 Everyone was incredible!
Don't apologise anyhow x3 It's totally fine with me, haha. I'm happy to hear from you ^-^