Hi folks!
April is almost here, and I'm just starting the work on v0.56. The last two weeks I spent on finalising scene by scene drafts for all of the routes - with how many routes and subroutes we have, it's no wonder it took so much time. These will be a great help, working on them I caught some errors and inconsistencies and loose ends that now I know I have to be wary of. The most important and hardest to get ones were sent to the editor we're working with, Reo.
Before going back to writing for v0.56, I made a poll asking you what would you like to see in the new update, or even beyond that. Looking at the responses, it's clear that continuing the story is the #1 priority - hence I'm going to focus on that.
There's also quite a lot of interest in Lake's side story - I'll start working on it in April too. For those who haven't heard about it yet, I wrote a short story for Lake in 2024, but it ended up unpublished - I thought it hard to adapt into a VN, and I felt that our readers wouldn't be interested in it as much if I published it in a plain text form. It's been a while already since I wrote it, but I think these two years gave me the perspective on it I needed - I think I know now what form it should take and how to edit it to match the story and tone of Dawn Chorus.
For now, I'm back to writing for Devon, but I'm also waiting for the first sketches for the two new characters I'd need for Lake's side story, Anders and Noah. The species are more or less set, but I'm curious to know who would you like to see 👀
-Keo