Imagine you’re a parent of a child who is about to finish high school. Your child isn’t willing to talk to you about plans after high schools because it so ain’t cool to talk to parents about serious stuff like that. However, your parental instinct tells you that deep inside your beloved child is worried about the future. You want to help, but you know they will never agree to talk it over, at least not at this age. You notice that your child likes to spend time reading visual novels, so you decide to wrap what you want to say in a visual novel. You do some research about visual novels on the internet and write a script containing everything you want to say (in high school student lingo instead of grown up chatter). You also call in favours from friends to compose some simple music, draw some simple characters, take some pretty photos for the background scenery, and package it all together.

This might be the visual novel that you would make.

It’s short, the plot could be smoother, you forgot to proofread the script, but it contains the caring message that you want to tell your precious child. That it’s OK to not immediately know what they want to do despite everyone around them looking like they do. That they have many paths in life to choose from. That they will always have your love and support no matter what.

Then you put it on Steam because there’s no way your child would read it if you directly handed it over, right?

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Sapphire Dragon Productions, the developer, in any way. Just in case my closing comment about putting the VN on Steam made it sound like I am.

Imagine you’re a parent of a child who is about to finish high school. Your child isn’t willing to talk to you about plans after high schools because it so ain’t cool to talk to parents about serious stuff like that. However, your parental instinct tells you that deep inside your beloved child is worried about the future. You want to help, but you know they will never agree to talk it over, at least not at this age. You notice that your child likes to spend time reading visual novels, so you decide to wrap what you want to say in a visual novel. You do some research about visual novels on the internet and write a script containing everything you want to say (in high school student lingo instead of grown up chatter). You also call in favours from friends to compose some simple music, draw some simple characters, take some pretty photos for the background scenery, and package it all together. [i] This might be the visual novel that you would make. [/i] It’s short, the plot could be smoother, you forgot to proofread the script, but it contains the caring message that you want to tell your precious child. That it’s OK to not immediately know what they want to do despite everyone around them looking like they do. That they have many paths in life to choose from. That they will always have your love and support no matter what. Then you put it on Steam because there’s no way your child would read it if you directly handed it over, right? Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Sapphire Dragon Productions, the developer, in any way. Just in case my closing comment about putting the VN on Steam made it sound like I am.