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Happy New year! I hope the year will be kind to everyone~! Last month I was pretty busy, but I feel I got an okay amount of work done! :39 A lot of writing and planning…!

Done…:

• Fixed/messed around with the preference menu! This includes new sliders for the menu! Also, changed how the quick menu displays, specifically the order of options. Changed the text size on the sub-menus as well.
• Finished the outfit designs for all the main characters! [Chihiro, Kaede, Ayako, Naoto– in addition to the outfits of Michi and Momoka who were finished before]
• Worked a lot on KKPP-DE! I have about ~70% of that planned out…!

To do…:

• Continue with KKPP-DE Skeleton 1
• Start KKPP-DE Draft 1?

More in-depth…

I’ve been meaning to play around with menus in-game for a bit now! They’ll still probably be changed in the future– My #1 want was to actually change the sliders to make them fit the feel of the game better, and I think that’s done! I can put a lot of actual changes to the look of the game on the back burner now– Mainly because to continue things, I should actually have more of the game carved out to not cause confusion for myself later.

The outfits are all sketched out as well! It took a while longer than expected, but I’m happy with the looks for now! I’m sure I said it previously, but having the outfits mapped out will make it easier when I fully embark on the sprites/cgs.

Now, the meat and potatoes of the update: KKPP-DE. I think – at least for now – a lot of growing pains on how I’m approaching this are out of the way. Since this portion of the game has a different playstyle to the other part of the game, I had to come at this a different way (the main part of the game will run like a more vanilla visual novel; this part runs more like a classic dating sim with a stat raising element.) Because this part focuses on 5 different main stories, it’s a lot more work figuring it out. I think I have a system in place, and I’d say for the 5 main stories, i’m roughly ~70% fleshed out with it. There’s a lot more detail than I expected in place of this actually… Oops… I meant for this to be a small companionship piece in-game, but now it’s become much bigger than I expected… But that’s typical of me. I’m not deterred by this– if anything, I think it’s really going to help the main plot too when I go back to work on that. 

Anyway…! That’s about it for the update this month! Have a safe and warm January, and have a lovely 2025~! Looking forward to updating again in February!(=^･ｪ･^=))ﾉ彡☆