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Kinetic novels are visual novels with non-branching plots, similar to a conventional novel or a graphic novel in multimedia form. Examples of kinetic novels include Higurashi When They Cry, Muv-Luv Alternative, and Digital: A Love Story. [5] [9] The term was first used by the publisher Key for their title Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little ...
[15] [16] [17] Another kinetic novel, Stella of The End, followed in 2022. [18] A four-volume kinetic novel series for the Prima Doll multimedia project will be released between 2023 and 2024. [19] As of September 2022, 62 versions of Key's 18 released visual novels have been published by VisualArt's.
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.
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.
Loopers is a Japanese science fiction horror visual novel developed by Key, a brand of Visual Arts. It was released on May 28, 2021 for Windows and is Key's 15th game overall. An English version was released on Steam in June 2023. It was ported to iOS and Android devices, as well as the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
Visual Arts (株式会社ビジュアルアーツ, Kabushikigaisha Bijuaru Ātsu), formerly Visual Artist Office (ビジュアルアーティストオフィス, Bijuaru Ātisuto Ofisu) and previously spelled in English as VisualArt's, is a Japanese publishing company which specializes in publishing and distributing visual novels for a large list of game developers.
KineticNovel (キネティックノベル, Kinetikku Noberu) is a brand of the Japanese software publishing company Visual Arts.The productions of the KineticNovel label are unlike other visual novels in that no choices are given to the player – they have only one possible outcome.
Planetarian is a post-apocalyptic visual novel in which the player assumes the role of the junker. Unlike traditional visual novels, no choices are given to the player in Planetarian to advance the story, and there is only one possible ending; this is what Key referred to as a kinetic novel. [1]