Assets and Licenses

sanguineangie

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Game Developer
Apr 24, 2021
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Hi All,

Some friends and I have been kicking around the idea of creating a VN. Aside from the cost of purchasing certain assets, I was wondering how some of the special licenses work. On a lot of sites, you seem to have to pay extra for a license to use the assets where "choices can change outcomes", which definitely seems to be a VN. A few questions:

  1. The games on this site: are they usually purchasing these licenses as well? Or are they not because they are not charging for the games?
  2. If you are not charging for the games, can you still put patreon links up?
  3. It seems like to make a VN from pre-made assets, you are taking about hundreds of dollars... does this sound about right?
  4. Are there a lot of people building all their own assets for the games from scratch to avoid these issues?
Thanks!