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Anonymous05/14/26, 13:42No.7941100VN
why aren't you working on a visual novel? think about it. comics and novels are as oversaturated as it gets. but despite the low barrier of entry, there aren't really THAT many visual novels out there. thats an even narrower pool if we think about your native language only.
face it, this is the one medium that hasnt yet yielded to peak saturation. this is just the beginning for visual novels
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Anon05/14/26, 13:54No.7941108
Hyper niche genre that doesn’t really lend itself to streaming or short-form video (people do make shorts out of manga pages) which severely limits its market cap and potential exposure. It’ll probably stay niche forever. Too much reading for people who don’t like books, too weird and anime for people who do like books.
I personally love VNs but there’s no reason to make one yourself unless you just really fucking love VNs.
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Anon05/14/26, 14:11No.7941114
They don't really have that low a barrier to entry, because they require a diverse set of skills compared to comicsThat said they're probably one of the best way to be profitable as an independent artist making his own work
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Anon05/14/26, 14:30No.7941119
If you're not japanese, make a point'n'click adventure instead. Basically same thing but has a non-weeb fanbase (trying to appeal to weebs is always risky, as they may reject your work simply on the basis it's not japanese for REAL)
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Anon05/14/26, 16:37No.7941194
Success in VNs is pretty hard actually. People want (1) a bombshell, exciting new artstyle, and (2) an iconic/fun cast of characters. Stuff like Type Moon, Key, Danganronpa, Ace Attorney, WTC, SubaHibi, etc. all fall into that bucket. I have some concepts but they'd need a good year to flesh out. My current best idea would take months of improvement at photobashing so I could do BGs
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Anon05/14/26, 16:38No.7941195
stop talking about it and just do it
no one fucking cares if you have NOTHING to show
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Anon05/14/26, 20:30No.7941333
You know what's SUPER unsaturated? Glorified VNs that have "some" gameplay like walking on a linear narrative path.Should be easy for you guys to make a 2d anime or other digitally illustrated art style game with a focus on narrative. Just make it a walking sim, you don't even need to worry much about programming because all the main engines have templates for character controllers.I would play any game that someone from here made, I mean it.
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Anon05/15/26, 06:04No.7941677
>niche format
>mostly known for porn
>low userbase, esp. for non-h
>not well suited to genres that don't involve romance or fucking
>requires at least decent writing skills due to text density
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>there aren't really THAT many visual novels out there.
lol, lmao even
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Anon05/15/26, 10:10No.7941761
If a talentless, uncreative artist (you) makes a viaual novel the result will be a shitty visual novel, if they make a graphic novel it will be a shitty graphic novel, manga, illustration, whateverPorn and oc/adoptables/twitter bs is not like genres and mediums, they allow shitty artists to make money because it's not valued for artistic quality or creativity but labour and/or sexual/autistic fan gratificationMost artists don't have a vision, good art usually requires a vision
And in visual storytelling art style is especially important because the style should work dynamically with the story, genre and themesThis retarded mindset happens when a person first learns how to draw and only after tries to figure out why, the ability to produce images is in itself worthless so obviously being passionate about the ability alone is like a filmmaker being autistic about camera lenses and hardware and trying to come up with a way to monetize on their interest that in itself has nothing to do with artistic expressionBut hey, a filmmaker like that could always shoot porn videos and moviesNow imagine a person like that thinking they're an artist
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Anon05/15/26, 10:15No.7941762
The government doesn't want you to know this but best thing about making a game with your art is that you can literally FORCE the audience to look at your pictures for as long as you want.
Instead of them scrolling past in 2.3 seconds after you've spend 10 hours drawing it they have to SIT there and LOOK.
