I guess I should say something about myself. INTJ on the Briggs-Meyer scale. I'm an American, permanent resident in Australia since 1974. I came to Australia, TV broadcast background stateside and preferred occupation, as the land of oz was scheduled to go PAL colo(u)r after19 years of B&W old technology. Previous consultant experience in Saudi Arabia and two years in American Samoa. (That should do. EOF)
I've seen a test build of a short VN, my first ever. It's based on a story I wrote in 1995 and was publised in one of the early web magazines. I thought the SF angle was "just around the corner" and it hasn't happened yet and might be a long wait ...
Going from game player to dev takes getting used to.
Even after 18 months with a team on another project, I'm still learning new things. Writing the story is the easy part. Collaboration is interesting. Two writers with widely different bacgrounds; my colleague suggested working together. He had a main character arc fully developed and I had a tabula rasa to play with. We ended up with two mc whose stories intertwine at the climax.
Colleague and I met on Steam in the DDLC forums. He'd started a theory topic and I happened to see it. A chain or randomness and here I am.