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Visual novels are distinguished from other game types by their generally minimal gameplay. Typically the majority of player interaction is limited to clicking to keep the text, graphics and sound moving as if they were turning a page (many recent games offer "play" or "fast-forward" toggles that make this unnecessary), while making narrative choices along the way.
Key's 13th game Summer Pockets was released in 2018, [13] and an expanded version titled Summer Pockets Reflection Blue was released in 2020. [14] Three kinetic novels were released in 2021: Loopers, Planetarian: Snow Globe and Lunaria: Virtualized Moonchild. [15] [16] [17] Another kinetic novel, Stella of The End, followed in 2022. [18] A four ...
Suika2 is a free and open source visual novel engine. It is lightweight, compact, and portable by design. Games created with Suika2 can run on Desktop, Mobile and Web Platforms. [32] Having Japanese and International language options, it is one of the few Japanese Visual Novel Engines supporting multiple languages out of the box.
However, there are instances where kinetic novels will be ported to consumer consoles, as with what occurred with Planetarian when it was ported to the PlayStation 2 by Prototype. After over three years since the last kinetic novel was produced in April 2006, the VisualArt's brand Issue produced a new kinetic novel, Meitantei Shikkaku na Kanojo ...
He was also attempting to write a story that worked best as a kinetic novel as opposed to a visual novel adventure game. It took him a long time to remain faithful to the story of Loopers while also adjusting its orthodox and unorthodox elements. [2] Kei Mochizuki is the art director and character designer for Loopers. [7]
Other visual novel-like games such as sound novels, dating sims, and kinetic novels. Games which use visual novel- or dating sim-like features to progress the story as well as character relationships, but also have additional elements of gameplay akin to RPGs. Example: Rune Factory.
Before forming Key, the founding members worked for another visual novel development company called Nexton under the brand Tactics.At the time of Dōsei's production, Tactics' first game, four of Key's original staff worked on the game: Itaru Hinoue as art director, Shinji Orito as musical composer, and Miracle Mikipon and Shinory contributing to the computer graphics.
Lunaria: Virtualized Moonchild is a Japanese science fiction visual novel developed by Key, a brand of Visual Arts. It was released on December 24, 2021 for Windows and is Key's 17th game overall. It was ported to iOS and Android devices, and also the Nintendo Switch .