Only Mostly Dead

For the past several months, no progress at all has been made on the VN. I just got back to coding it, and I'm only doing a little bit at a time. The next update might take awhile, as we need a few sprites to be made before we can make Volume II, specifically the Yakuza, Dr.Sakura, the Student Council president, and others.

Good news though, the download links to the first volume have been fixed, although I do not know how long they will last. See the Volume I post for MD5 sums.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Mediafire links have stopped working (again), I will work on fixing them eventually.

The 4shared mirror links however, still function:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

And if those fail as well, there's a link to a torrent. Click the following to open in your torrent client: magnet link

The torrent is of uncertain reliability, but will probably work faster than the hosted downloads.

Progress Update

For those of you who thought we were dead, we were never dead. Only resting.

The next release will contain up to chapter 9. We already have the script for everything up to chapter 10 done, and chapter 11 is in the works. Chapters 6-10 needs a good bit of spit and polish, and another sprite or two, and that should be done in time. Expect Volume II to be done soon!

In the meantime, we've gotten new screenwriters-in-training to help out and get chapters done even faster!

Until then, some more screenshots of what's to come!

Video version now available

Thanks to Oroboro, we now have a video version of the prologue, and more to come. This should be handy for those who don't want to bother with installing, or are on computers they don't own.

Volume I, released!

After quite some time and work, here's the first real release!

This is Volume I, covering the prologue through the first half of Chapter 5. Many thanks to all who participated in development and contributed help and material.

UPDATE 5/30/12: The download for this release has been updated to include a few bug fixes. Issues corrected include: SFX volume is now persistently settable, the plain/vanilla setting is back in the options screen, and whether or not to autoscroll the preview is now an option.

UPDATE 2013/06/19: Mediafire kicked us off for using multipart archives, so now we just have torrent files. On the bright side, we now don't have to worry about multipart archives anymore, since no file size limit.

Files:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Torrent (magnet link)

MD5 sums:

722eca403adc7d4d4d6fb937d5945ca2  KBDH-VN-1.01.part1.rar
b5e5a910b3f1c611fdd50f149117a8fd  KBDH-VN-1.01.part2.rar
1321589db44c31f2c83d8286eb5b52fd  KBDH-VN-1.01.part3.rar
17f0efe4dbfaf036bead7f036cce928d  KBDH-VN-1.01.rar

The download is packaged as a multi-part RAR archive; make sure all the files are in the same folder, then unarchive the file 'KBDH-VN-1.01.part1.rar'.

If you still have the original Volume I release, the change patch containing only the files that have been altered or added are available here:

• Change patch, ver. 1.01

MD5 sum for the change patch:

c45c3f1163de5a07f4ea0afb2787eae7  v1-1.01-diff.zip


When applying the patch, please ensure that the change patch is unzipped into the same directory that contains both your 'game' directory and the file 'KBDH-VN.exe', and that you choose to replace all files.

We're already hard at work on Volume II, and are still interested in recruiting more team members. If you think you can lend a hand, especially if you're an artist, or know one, we'd love to have you aboard.

If you need to know more, or just feel like chatting, feel free to pop into IRC at irc.lunarnet.org, channel #bdh-vn. Our forums are located here if you want to keep an eye on progress.

Enjoy the game, and stay tuned for what's to come!

Volume I, first release candidate

Coming up on the release of Volume I, and there's a release candidate.

This volume contains material from the beginning through Chapter 5 of the original. Not release-quality yet; going for an actual release sometime next week.

Download is available at mediafire:

• Part 1
• Part 2

For verification, SHA1 sums of the files:

f9850b3710fcdce1bef029d8a00b59eedac84f47 KBDH-VN.part1.rar
29281d01b59529e3e110e85c1ec2ceae46cde70a KBDH-VN.part2.rar 

Release candidate version is now gone in favor of the actual release.

Have fun.

A beginning

Here we are. This place will act as the user-visible front page for the Kyon: Big Damn Hero VN project, with links to the relevant downloads and so forth.