I am sorry for my epic slowness in coming to know of this.
But that is because I do not surf 4chan. And some other twit in edit: Spore sharing the same IP has caused me to be banned from /b/, the source of all lulzy in 4chan (am I wrong, really?). edit: I don’t really approve of 4chan, but well. In some ways I guess it can be pretty amusing. That xkcd post on 4chan was hilarious too.
Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan. Hisao Nakai, a normal boy living a normal life, has his life turned upside down when a congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school after a long hospitalization. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right. There are five main paths corresponding to the 5 main female characters, each path following the storyline pertaining to that character.
The story is told through the perspective of the main character, using a first person narrative. This game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV text box. Katawa Shoujo contains adult content, and is created using the Ren’Py scripting system.
Katawa Shoujo is under development by an international team of amateur developers, and will be released free of charge under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License. There is currently no release date set.
‘Amateur’ they may be, but this turned out to be pretty great! No voicing though D: Do give the Act 1 demo a go, download it at the aforementioned main site. edit: They’ve also earned some recognition from Japan, and I can’t wait for the full version to be released with all those exotic translations. I mean where the heck do Česky, Suomi or Magyar come from??
Anyway. It’s awesome! Yeah. I am… sleepy… kind of… right now, so I don’t have much other to say than that it’s awesome!
And I know one of the artists :D
Watch out for some references in the first act.
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