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Hello, people! These two weeks were really tiresome. A lot happened, but I’ll give you the most important information. First of all, I’m happy to see that you – fans – liked the idea of rebuilding Young Maria! It’s important for me to know that you agree with my ideas:3 I received a lot of feedback and tried to answer everyone.

Well, let’s start. I defined three main steps that I (with my team) need to do: 1) Remove almost everything except the very base of the game; 2) Rewrite the base widgets/passages/systems and build new ones; 3) Add new places and content according to the plan. I almost finished the first part. Tomorrow I just need to clean the StoryCaption passage and bathroom passages a bit. I try to do things quickly, so I will finish later some tiny parts.

Also, I created four new documents, where I keep tracking of every significant change, make notes and do some brainstorming. I’m also working on a “document,” where I write down the main rules for YM’s code writing and styling.

By the way, we now have Cathar on the team! She is a new Project Coordinator, and she already ran fantastic research, making a useful document after this. Now I know what players want to see in YM and what I should remove completely.

I still have something to tell you, but I guess it’s time to end this post. I also received a couple more soundtracks (and I love them!) and a game poster I’m still unsure about (picture below). Well, that’s it. Have a good day and see you in two weeks!;3

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Hello, people! I finally returned to you after dealing with my exams. Free and happy, I started to work on the next update. But Plaze texted me a few days ago, revealing my little dark secret. And I can’t hide from it anymore. Young Maria is … not a good game. It can be much, much better. After two or three years, it became pretty obvious to everyone – YM needs a good rebuild session. So, why I mentioned some dark secret of mine? The thing is, I knew it a long time ago, but I was afraid of the amount of work. YM is a huge and poor-built game. But I can’t hide from this task anymore! It needs to be done.

Before we dive into big plans, let me introduce a new writer – Ali! He wrote a new scene for the school playground, and I want to show it to you. Here’s the “raw” version – click. 2.400 words – this scene is huge! Enjoy~

Well, let’s get back to our ambitious goal. I created a document to keep tracking of my thoughts – click. Here’s just a rough sketch… plan of everything – I don’t want to waste precious time on describing details. But I need your help. Please tell me what you want to see in the game and – what is much more important – what do you want me to change or remove completely. You can always contact me via email (MilkyNailMail@gmail.com) or Discord (MilkyNail (MariaMod)#1179).

I ordered a few pictures and pieces of music two days ago. And I already get two songs and a sketch of the main poster. If everything goes according to the plan, it will take a couple of months to finish this project. Anyway, I’ll be collecting feedback from you for a few days, and then I begin to work.

I appreciate your support, and I hope you like this change. If you don’t – write to me and tell me why! Don’t forget to put lemon in your tea and see you in two weeks:3

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Hello, people! These two weeks were eventful, so I’ll state just a few of them.

I found many concept artists (not the perfect ones, sadly), and they are drawing the base concepts of every location in the game now. Also, I’m trying to find a good style for this project. You know, color, how many pixels there will be… I found a brilliant girl who can create good-looking character designs, so she’s working on the main character, all furry kinds, and human designs. I wait for her to finish at least something so another boy can create characters in pixel style. Talking about this boy, tomorrow I’ll ask him to start working on tiles. I like how he draws grass:)

The second part of the project is the programmer. Nothing interesting here – we lost contact for a week, plus he was finishing another project… He’s still working on the automation generation of fighting locations level design. Today we discussed the changing of the main character’s height and decided to make it a bit higher.

Talking about other events, my project manager had to leave, but we are still talking and sharing ideas like friends^^ And I expanded the design document a bit. Now it has 20 pages! I know it’s still a small document, but people say that it has everything they need.

Okay, see you in two weeks, boys and girls! Love you all!