I sure hope so! I'd love to! Preferably on a project where she can have control over the characters and designs and stuff too.
Sukeban Games or Alice in Dissonance, I guess. I'd be most interested in working with people who really push the limits of what VN's are. When I was younger I would've said 4LS but I'm not really sure who/what exactly constitutes 4LS at this point.
If you haven't seen, then:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/404480/
Overall yes. I'm not sure if it would work as well about a fictitious eSport, but stuff like Starcraft or CSGO or LoL would be interesting to read about, I think.
Haven't read any but I know of some. I think it's risky. You don't have a specific target audience unless you can really sell everyone on your characters rather than your story.
Hmm do you mean like ML Extra/Unlimited with how Unltd is hidden until after you complete certain stuff in MLE? Assuming so then...
No probably not. Secret routes, maybe, but having a whole extra (heh) game that you can't really promote or market is gonna be really hard to justify financially.
I believe it exists but I honestly don't know of any VN's that do this. It's something that I think could be neat to help tie episodic games together (maybe you were referring to TellTale stuff?)
The "secret" route in Symphonic Rain. Saying more than that would be spoilers.
Like when there are romance options but the protagonist doesn't pursue any? I think it would be interesting if that was treated as a valid option with a whole route and stuff, but most treat it as a bad end.
Alternative is good and I can't deny how well the setup in Extra/Unlimited pays off. That said, it's a lot to ask your audience to sit through hours of mediocrity for the resolution
Honestly, I don't ever see this happening unless a AAA game dev company were to, for some reason, pivot to VN's and make something with multimillion dollar production values. The VN industry in Japan is dying as it is, and there are many more good games there than what we see here.
I'd love to be proven wrong though. It's been a dream of mine for years