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Happy April! Hope everyone had a nice March! Here is the update…!

Done…:

• Re-did and re-organized the 1st skeleton of KKPP-DE
• Started re-doing Chihiro’s route [1.5 draft?]

To do…:

• Finish redoing Chihiro’s route
• Re-do Rie’s route

Reading this, you might say ‘Didn’t you do all of that…?’ And I did…! I was working on Yuna’s route when in late March, I felt a bit of nervousness and a need to start over… So I did! I debated powering through and finishing the first draft of it, but I knew I would stress the whole time about it. 

I also decided to scale back my scope for KKPP-DE; I was aiming for KKPP-DE to be around ~24 main points per route, and decided that it would be better to scale it back to around 15. This may sound like a downgrade, but it’s all to make the story beats a lot tighter. I think this is the better way to go.

I also am re-working parts in terms of better thinking out how to go about dialogue options. I think it’s better to have dialogue options based on more or less “personality”-- a choice that’s flirty next to a choice that’s mellow, and have it be based on the girls’ individual preferences on which choice they’d prefer. I think this also adds more life to the routes and makes them more rounded. 

I had some personal things to take care of at the end of March which made progress go a little slower than I had hoped, but I’m ½ through re-doing Chihiro’s main route points! So, hopefully it won’t take that long to re-do her and Rie’s, and then I can sail on to doing Yuna, Nana and Yui’s.

Thank you for reading and keeping up with this project! Have a lovely month!