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Happy May~! Hope everyone had a lovely April~! It’s almost been a year since this project started…! Hopefully I’ll get a lot done this month for the 1-year-anniversary…!

Done…:

• Finished re-doing Chihiro’s route [Draft 1.5]

To do…:

• Re-do Rie’s route
• Start Nana’s route…?

A lot of this month I was slacking off, I have to admit… But! I did finish re-doing Chihiro’s route and I am soooo much happier with how it feels! There’s still a lot that needs to be ironed out and tweaked, but that’s for future go-overs. Right now, the bones look really good and that’s what I want from this first draft!

Speaking of changes from the first draft, I thought this draft would end up being shorter than it due to the changes in the amount of events… Wrong! In fact, it’s 7 events shorter, but it’s actually 5 pages longer than the first draft. I think the space each event takes up is utilized a lot better in this version as well, so it feels like a better and more well-rounded story.

Now, for this month... Time to do it over again with Rie! Rie’s route, like Chihiro’s, was fully written out so it’s another rewrite. I’d say Chihiro’s rewrite probably took 2.5 weeks (taking out the time of slacking off)... So hopefully Rie’s will be done in a timely manner as well!

Not pertaining to rewrites per se, I’ve been thinking about the “play order” of the main two sections of the game: The more standard dating sim part [KKPP-DE] vs the “vn” part [KKPP]. Originally, I had planned to have players complete a route of KKPP first, and then be able to unlock KKPP-DE… But I think I’ll do it the reverse. This doesn’t really affect much right now, but since it’s been a new decision in the work, I figured I’d write it out.

That’s about it for this writeup! Have a lovely and safe month and thank you for reading~!