Hi, here's a bit of an overview of what I did this year and my plans for next year.

What I did this year

• Steam Demo Released!

• Updated the demo everywhere

• Finished all the basic level art

• Random Beat saving /loading

• Implemented achievements / progress

• Planned the final structure of the game

• Made B-sides for rooms 4 - 10

• Various programming tasks (maintenance, bug fixing)

• Showed at the Alt+G festival in Seoul

• Made and added 4 or 5 new tracks

• Updated Unity version + dev environment

Plans for next year

• Finish making and importing the remaining music (~8 tracks)

• Make all the animation frames (Room 12 onwards)

• Make clickable objects (Room 12 onwards)

• Make B-Sides (Room 11 onwards)

• Arrange all tracks into longer songs

• Implement progress UI

• Add controller support

• Add beatmaking tutorial?

• Various UI problems/ general bug fixing?

• (Possibly) Release?

General reflections

I'm pretty pleased with how much I've been able to do this year. The demo update release kept getting delayed, but I've made good overall progress. I tried to keep as focused on Lo-Fi Room as much as possible, but inevitably there were shorter term things that I also wanted to do. I think it's been a pretty good balance this year.

I'm not sure if I'll be able to release the full version of Lo-Fi Room next year but I should get pretty close! If I do, it will probably be towards the end of the year. I'm reluctant to make any promises about a release date as I find it very hard to predict and my time can very easily get impacted by other things.

Anyway, those are my thoughts and general plans. I can't promise that Lo-Fi Room will release next year (there is still quite a lot to do), but it should be close to being finished by the end of 2026.

Thanks again for your interest and being patient with development. It's all taken way longer than expected~