Hello! I have been so excited working on this project. I feel it is turning out very well and the game is btw 100% free. Full disclosure: The game is vibe coded (coding by ai) but it does feature a tremendous amount of my own writing and story. It has an innovative conversation cube system that I would love to hear your feedback on. You are attempting to adopt cute aliens whom you will send on prospecting missions. I am wondering what other kinds of elements I could incorporate that people would enjoy. This is going to be a long term project for me after all.

We have 3 aliens so far and I'd love to hear your thoughts on whether you enjoy this writing style and what you feel could use improvement. Anything that you like and dislike. I am adding new features every week and your game saves automatically. Please let me know what you think! I've never had more fun my life and being able to create my own visual novels with this technology and finally put my creativity to use is really inspiring.

Alien Adoption Agency · MakePlay

This is a romance focused Yuri VN where you get caught in a love triangle with your imaginary friends who suddenly became real!

Features:

•2 main routes, one for Robin and one for Venus, along with a secret 3rd route.

•Fully voiced characters and beautiful art, a 100% human made experience.

•Lots of Yuri and girl kissing!

I feel like this is a pretty controversial opinion in the VN community, but I honestly dont think the fact that a visual novel is the original source material automatically makes it better than its anime adaptation.

Sometimes I actually prefer the anime.

A good example for me is Clannad. I personally enjoyed the anime more than the VN. I thought the pacing was much better, the visuals were more appealing, and I appreciated that the adaptation cut down on a lot of the slice of life content. That's just ä something I dont particularly enjoy.

Or Steins Gate, similar reasons to Clannad.

And I feel like anime adaptations of VNs sometimes get criticized almost automatically simply because they're adaptations. There is this narrative of "the VN is the real experience, the anime is just a butchered version" even when the anime might genuinely be better sometimes.

I sometimes get the impression that people overhate adaptations because liking the original feels more "cultured" or gives them a sense of feeling more niche. Obviously that's not everyone, but I definitely feel like this attitude exists.

That said, I'm definitely not saying VNs are always better either.

There are plenty of cases where the VN absolutely wins.

Umineko is probably the biggest example for me. The anime adaptation is way too rushed, especially considering how much content and characterization had to be cut.

And White Album 2 is another one where I strongly prefer the VN.

Or the Kara no Shoujo "adaptation" which is basically just a short hentai.

Im not trying to argue "anime adaptations are better than VNs." My point is more that I think we should judge them as their own works instead of automatically assuming that the original source is superior.

Sometimes an adaptation genuinely improves the experience for certain people.

What are some VNs where you actually prefer the anime adaptation?

Aoi supremacy!!! Def my first choice.. since I saw her👀 hope you like my cos!

Heyo everyone! We’re a five-man indie team from Taiwan called PHOSEPO and this here is our latest project, Psycho-Sleuth.

The story is about 13 people who are trapped in a death game organized by the insidious Li Cult. The prize for winning? Why, no less than the chance to ascend to Godhood… if they can get away with murder most foul!

However, none of the characters participating in this deadly trial are exactly normal, not by a long stretch. For example, one witness cannot lie even if they wanted to, while another has spatial neglect and cannot see the whole left section of the room. A third cannot distinguish between different faces. A fourth believes she is dead… and so on, you get the idea (I’m not giving them all away here, that would ruin the fun)

The catch here is that these conditions spread to everyone around them, making for a thrilling and oftentimes darkly comedic (and sometimes simply terrifying) game of cat and mouse. Trust becomes complicated when even the most sincere witness can be wrong, while someone with malicious intentions might reveal the truth without realizing it.

Be that as it may, your duty is to investigate the murders, work out what each witness could actually perceive, then pick apart their testimony in timed debates. If you've played any of the Ace Attorney games, the gameplay should already feel somewhat familiar to you.

Our demo is on Steam right now, covering Chapter 1 and the start of Chapter 2:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3753800/PsychoSleuth_Demo/

The full game will launch on November 5!

Also, feel free to ask any more specific questions you might have about our game, I’ll stick around for a while and answer what I can.

Trying to launch the visual novel but get this error. Happens in a VM too for what it matters (locale set to Japanese too). Tried installing DirectX from WineTricks, but same thing.

Tried Heroic Launcher on Linux and Windows VM.

Edit: Apparently 7zip messes up (some? all?) filenames during extraction, that is, it makes them all uppercase letters, which then tends to make the game not launch. So mounting the game image works.

I remember this visual novel where the premise is ur a guy who lived with ur aunt and step sister in a way because ur dad died and left h with debt and ur aunt took you in.

U start the game where u basically revive? Regress or whatever into the past with ur future memories intact and u basically lock in and do jobs and use ur future knowledge to make everything better for u and ur family in this life

There are a lot of characters I can remember

"Milf" aunt

White haired best friend with a sis complex

Tanned Tomboy gf

Black buff guy with an afro who trains u in the park

Tsundere step sis with red/pink hair

Ramen guy where u clean a toilet bowl and eat ramen off of it

Daughter of ramen guy

A nerd who likes the sister of the white haired best friend

I have all this info but I can't seem to find it anybody have 😭

Do you guys know any VN composers who speak English at a good level?