Juniper's Knot

Juniper's Knot

egeslean05 Dec 2, 2017 @ 6:56am
Just a very small issue..
In the description you guys say, "A kinetic novel is a game that uses text, sound, and illustrations to tell a story."

While this is true, it's also a bit misleading, as that is what visual novels are in general. Visual novels offer the player (for lack of a better term, perhaps reader?) choices within it, while a kinetic novel is a sub-genre of visual novels where there are no choices.

I'm very glad to see that you did what many fail to do and called this what it is, instead of just a visual novel (which would mislead players into thinking they would have some agency in the game).
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The phrase, visual novel, logically thinking, stands more for the content - it is a novel whose story is told not only by words, but also by visuals (illustrations).
So, it's not exactly misleading - it is quite accurate.

Basically, if you find visual novel and kinetic novel tags, you are likely to find a story, on which the player (reader) has no influence - either on the plot or even character responses. Since there is kinetic novel in the description, this is not even an issue.
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