:TITLE:About us
:INC:index


:SUB:Goal
<p>
 Our primary goal is building a large, comprehensive and up-to-date database for
 information about all existing visual novels. VNDB aims to be a central place
 too look up general information about the visual novels themselves, as well as
 practical information around it, like available releases, localisations and
 producers.<br />
 Our secondary goal is to promote the wonderful medium called visual novels to
 a broader audience, an audience not limited only to people who can understand
 Japanese, but to anyone interested in literature, anime, manga or games,
 regardless of their geographical location or cultural differences.
</p>


:SUB:History
<p>
 yeah, interesting...
</p>


:SUB:Staff
<dl>
 <dt><a href="/u2">yorhel</a> <b>[a.k.a. Ayo]</b></dt><dd>
  Founder of VNDB and still active as the main developer.
 </dd><dt><a href="/u4" class="retired">hillie</a> <b>[retired]</b><dt><dd>
  Responsible for beta testing of the first few versions of the site, thinking
  of cool new features, adding the first few entries to the database and
  moderating user submitted content.
 </dd>
</dl>


:SUB:Thanks
<p>
 Due to the sites nature as a wiki, all information in the database is added and
 kept up-to-date by active users. I would like to thank everyone who has contributed
 to the site, and the following users in particular:
</p>
<dl>
 <dt><a href="/u18">rasqual</a></dt><dd>
  One of the first active contributors. Added many visual novels to the
  database when it was still a small and unknown website and gave useful
  feedback on new features. His contributions motivated many other visitors to
  help out as well.
 </dd><dt><a href="/u51">echomateria</a></dt><dd>
  Responsible for adding more than 500 visual novels in less than two months,
  making him the largest contributor to the database. Also helped out with
  thinking of new features and keeping the IRC channel busy.
 </dd>
</dl>