KineticNovel

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company_name = KineticNovel
キネティックノベル
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company_type = Visual novel publisher
foundation =
location = Kita-ku, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
industry = Computer games
products = Visual novels
homepage = [http://www.kineticnovel.jp/ kineticnovel.jp/] Nihongo|KineticNovel|キネティックノベル|Kinetikku Noberu is a brand of the Japanese software publishing company Visual Art's. Visual novels produced on the KineticNovel label are not done like other traditional visual novels in that no choices are given to the player to advance the story in alternate directions, and there is only one end. These visual novels are dubbed "kinetic novels" to signify that the story moves forward with almost no interaction from the player. The player can choose when to go to the next dialogue screen or put the game on autoplay and just sit back and enjoy. In this respect, the player does not play the game as if it were a video game but plays it rather more like one would play a music track on a CD or play a DVD movie. The majority of KineticNovel's products contain adult material of a sexual nature, though all-ages products are produced as well, such as Key's "".

The company gets most of its sales via offering its products for download over the Internet. However, there are instances where kinetic novels will be ported to consumer consoles, as with what occurred with "Planetarian" when it was ported to the PlayStation 2 by Prototype. After over two years since the last kinetic novel was produced in April 2006, the Visual Art's brand Issue will be producing a new kinetic novel.

Kinetic novels

*"", Released November 29 2004
*"Maiden Halo", Released January 7 2005
*"", Released February 15 2005
*"Trance Kiss", Released March 28 2005
*"Shinkyoku Sōkai Polyphonica", Released August 8 2005
*"", Released February 13 2006
*"Fushigi no Kuni no Kanojo", Released March 6 2006
*"Beni Hime", Released April 3 2006
*"Meitantei Shikkaku na Kanojo", TBA

External links

* [http://www.kineticnovel.jp/ KineticNovel's official website] jp icon