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I'm sitting down with my writer for the visual novel Kanetsuki no Monogatari right now. We are thinking how many lines of text you would need to fill a 4~5 hour long game. Anyone have a good estimate as to how much dialog you'd need to fill that time frame? (Given people spending time saving, reading over, looking at the pictures, loading it up)

>> No.187297

over 9000

>> No.187308
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187308

For instance, penises

>> No.187467

No serious responses?

>> No.187499

Theoretically, lets say that reading one full line takes 7 seconds, and you'll probably react to certain images and plot devices, and be like "Oh shit!" Also, the average anon will complete a 4-5 hour game in 2 or 3 load ups, and will save approximately 20 times (this could vary greatly depending on how many choices you have). Subtracting a % of lines for common situations like "I'm going to fap to this." or "I'm going to spend 5 minutes straight crying, this is so fucking sad." the number of lines would probably be around YOU JUST LOST THE GAME.

>> No.187520

>>187499
Not even reads that fast/slow. Depending on how much words you got left, im not sure how much you need. Assuming it's 1 line from a typical VN, i'd say it should be something like this: LostthegamePS3SUXFROSTEDBUTTS

>> No.187671

>>187499
Wow, going by this, a 5 hour VN would be around 2250 lines, that doesn't sound like much at all. I quick guess would put me in the area of around 6000. Regardless, try not to write following a time frame, just write until you reached something you feel comfortable with.

>> No.187759

Don't write stuff if you're gonna use the word "fill" to describe that activity.

>> No.187789

>>187499
You're response was so serious... that's the 1st time I never saw it coming
>>187277
Having never played a VN before, I gotta ask... is the general format so written in stone that it would follow a certain format? You space things out/you bunch them together... you write the lines that need to be written as well as the smaller ones that serve as general development... It seems like this is all very dependent on exactly what you're trying to do

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