Hi All!
We hope that you are enjoying A Sky Full of Stars!
With the game being out for a month now, we are keen to share some behind the scenes information with you from the creators themselves.
Today we will be posting the second half of Asta Konno's interview. (Read Part 1 here)
Asta Konno was in charge of Planning and the Main Scenario. He wrote Hikari, Saya and the Common Routes.
★ Did you already know a lot about astronomy beforehand?
Before getting involved in this project, I barely knew what a planet was. Once we decided on the astrology aspect, I spent about a year carrying books on astrology everywhere with me and reading them whenever I had some extra time. Not just books, I also went out to do some field research and ask experts to show me around astrology-related shops. One of my hobbies is photography, so I started with telescopes, since that seemed somewhat related.
★ What scenes do you think you wrote well, or would choose as your favorites?
I think I wrote the scene where the three friends go to the hot springs pretty well. It’s a pretty delicate scene, and if I didn’t get it just right I knew the users would see that. Or the scene in Hikari’s route where Hikari and Saya are arguing on the phone but then they get excited together over the appearance of the bolide. It both involved astronomy information, but also was very like those two to act that way.
An instant favorite scene of mine was also the scene where the teacher speaks seriously near the end of the common route. The voice actor’s beautiful delivery of the line “Their light has made the journey. That’s why we can see them.” really gets to me every time I hear it.
★ Okay, then on the other hand, what were the scenes that were difficult to write?
All of the astronomy-related scenes. I was a complete amateur who had only scratched the surface of all there was to learn, so it was difficult to make progress when every scene I had to look up and double check all of the information with at least two sources. My writing pace ended up being twice as slow as usual until I wondered if I was slowing down from all the work I was doing, but then my pace returned to normal on the other non-astronomy-related scenes and my heart rested easier.
Also, some of the scenes with Comment Girl I started to wonder if it wasn’t too weird but it seems like that all went over well with the players, so I’m glad I kept it in.
★ Aside from the main heroines, since you wrote for them, which characters do you like?
If I had to choose someone other than Hikari and Saya, I guess it would be the teacher, Miharu. I’m quite proud of how I wrote her as the kind of careless older-sister character you see often these days, but also drew the line at making her a complete failure at being an adult. (laughs) I think it’s pretty great she just spends her time lazing about at home grinding for levels in RPGs. I like Korona when she was a child. She looked and sounded adorable…
I also like Noriko. I love her type of “boring” girls.
And Hinami, too! She was the type of character who didn’t require any effort to make interesting, the kind you could just say “if this character appears at this point, they need to have a strong personality” and they just kind of write themselves. She looks and sounds cute too. She’s the best.
★ Overall, can you tell us what left an impression on you when writing this?
Since working on this project, I’ve started looking up to the stars. I’d never seen a falling star in all my life, but while I was writing, I was able to see at least three falling stars that I swear were bolide-class during the Geminid meteor shower, and that left a great impression on me.
The lyrics to “Star map” and “Winter Diamond” are just wonderful, I think, so much that they almost made me frustrated thinking I’d never be able to write something so lovely.
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