The Writer Will Do Something

The Writer Will Do Something

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Visual Novel

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Matthew Seiji Burns

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March 29, 2015 (11 years ago)

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This is a visual novel in which you are the lead writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate franchise. Expectations are through the roof: fans of the series are waiting for the biggest, most bad-ass entry in the series yet, and your publisher is expecting the best-selling title in its history. But the game’s development hasn’t gone as smoothly as planned. One morning, just a couple months before E3 and six months before ship, an emergency meeting is called…

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