About the Channel
The Baka-trio, along with some friends (IRC regulars from the lemmasoft forums) have decided to create their own IRC channel on Freenode. The purpose of this IRC channel is to be a fun, tension-free online workshop dedicated to the continued development of visual novel creation-related skills. The logs below are excerpts from some of the more meaningful discussions from the channel that we feel might be helpful to aspiring English language visual novel creators and veterans alike. All the logs posted here come with the participants' permissions to publicize them. Some of the logs may have been edited in the interest of confidentiality and decency.
BTW: Baka-Trio Webzine
BTW is a free, EVN-Centered, non-profit ezine in pdf format. It is published monthly and is maintained by the chatters in #baka-trio on freenode. Use the form below to subscribe and receive the latest issue of BTW through your e-mail address.
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Volume #8 December 31, 2009
Volume #7 November 30, 2009
Volume #6 October 31, 2009
Volume #5 September 30, 2009
Volume #4 August 31, 2009
Volume #3 July 24, 2009
Volume #8 December 31, 2009
Volume #7 November 30, 2009
Volume #6 October 31, 2009
Volume #5 September 30, 2009
Volume #4 August 31, 2009
Volume #3 July 24, 2009
Volume #2 June 16, 2009
Volume #1 May 15, 2009
Alienation Stories Anthology Project
The #baka-trio regulars started this project some time ago. These are the current participants/links to the finished stories. We plan to compile everything into one single presentation when everyone's done, though, we still have no idea how we plan to do this :P
lordcloudx -
Ren - Art for lordcloudx's story
Samu-kun - (What the fudge!? This is your class project!)
Hime - story/possibly art
Jake - story/art
Kikered -
Drake -
Moonlightbomber -
January 19, 2009: Developer Interview: FIA Part of a series of interviews. Meet the creator of the dark medieval fantasy VN, Winter Shard and the recently released Christmas themed multiple path, single ending story, Eve.
December 01, 2008: Developer Interview: Monele Part of a series of interviews. This time, we interview the creator of Magical Boutique. A man of diverse talents (especially singing :P). Monele is our most talkative interviewee to date.
November 24, 2008: Developer Interview: Drake and Company Part of a series of interviews. Featuring the creative combo of Drake and Enerccio. Co-creators (along with Yvanc and DaFool) of Starlit Sky and the soon to be released, Songs of Araiah.
November 18, 2008: Developer Interview: Kikered Part of a series of interviews. Featuring programmer/musician/all-around VN developer, (and tetris kid :P) Kikered.
Difficulty of Completing VNs Here, the group discusses some real/hypothetical problems of making a complete visual novel.
Serialized VNs: Yay or NayOne of the first topics set just after the new channel permissions were set.
July 03, 2008 log (The Winning Attitude) No particular topic was set for this discussion, but different views were exchanged regarding the proper mindset to take in the process of creating a visual novel.
June 27, 2008 log: The topic is: "An Audience Beyond LSF" (Refering to Original English Visual Novels and how the Lemmasoft Community seems to be the only receptive audience for our own games. Log has been trimmed down to include only the relevant discussion. Some interesting points were brought up during this session
June 26, 2008 log (Argument Part II): Another argument. For clarification, Sektor is FIA and FIA is lordcloudx. (My apologies if I offended you, FIA. I was in a wierd mood at that time.)
June 26, 2008 log: Hehe! The topic is irrelevant for this log. This is mostly a random argument from out of nowhere between FIA and lordcloudx (that's me). I thought it was worth posting for the laughs.
June 20, 2008 log: The topic is: "Word Count: How much does it matter?" Log has been edited to be limited to actual on-topic discussion as much as possible.
June 19, 2008 log: The topic is: "Visual Novel Storytelling Approaches. How do you write your VN stories?" Log has been edited to be limited to actual on-topic discussion as much as possible.
lordcloudx -
Ren - Art for lordcloudx's story
Samu-kun -
(What the fudge!? This is your class project!)Hime - story/possibly art
Jake - story/art
Kikered -
Drake -
Moonlightbomber -
The Logs
January 19, 2009: Developer Interview: FIA Part of a series of interviews. Meet the creator of the dark medieval fantasy VN, Winter Shard and the recently released Christmas themed multiple path, single ending story, Eve.
December 01, 2008: Developer Interview: Monele Part of a series of interviews. This time, we interview the creator of Magical Boutique. A man of diverse talents (especially singing :P). Monele is our most talkative interviewee to date.
November 24, 2008: Developer Interview: Drake and Company Part of a series of interviews. Featuring the creative combo of Drake and Enerccio. Co-creators (along with Yvanc and DaFool) of Starlit Sky and the soon to be released, Songs of Araiah.
November 18, 2008: Developer Interview: Kikered Part of a series of interviews. Featuring programmer/musician/all-around VN developer, (and tetris kid :P) Kikered.
Difficulty of Completing VNs Here, the group discusses some real/hypothetical problems of making a complete visual novel.
Serialized VNs: Yay or NayOne of the first topics set just after the new channel permissions were set.
July 03, 2008 log (The Winning Attitude) No particular topic was set for this discussion, but different views were exchanged regarding the proper mindset to take in the process of creating a visual novel.
June 27, 2008 log: The topic is: "An Audience Beyond LSF" (Refering to Original English Visual Novels and how the Lemmasoft Community seems to be the only receptive audience for our own games. Log has been trimmed down to include only the relevant discussion. Some interesting points were brought up during this session
June 26, 2008 log (Argument Part II): Another argument. For clarification, Sektor is FIA and FIA is lordcloudx. (My apologies if I offended you, FIA. I was in a wierd mood at that time.)
June 26, 2008 log: Hehe! The topic is irrelevant for this log. This is mostly a random argument from out of nowhere between FIA and lordcloudx (that's me). I thought it was worth posting for the laughs.
June 20, 2008 log: The topic is: "Word Count: How much does it matter?" Log has been edited to be limited to actual on-topic discussion as much as possible.
June 19, 2008 log: The topic is: "Visual Novel Storytelling Approaches. How do you write your VN stories?" Log has been edited to be limited to actual on-topic discussion as much as possible.