File 06's development continues into the new year! What I worked on since the last update: Blocked out all backgrounds, finished 15 Rendered placeholders for CGs, unfinished backgrounds Made another music track Conducted playtests Last month my main goal was working on all those backgrounds — I'm pleased to say that I am very close to completing them, and that the remaining ones just need a few additional props and lighting. My new workflow of doing multiple passes of every b

Happy New Year! 2025 was an exhausting, but exhilarating year. After the back-to-back releases of Files 04 and 05, I felt pretty burned out and really struggled with getting the last two Hangouts finished. Fortunately, things picked back up once I began working on File 06. Even though it was difficult to write, it was much more interesting to work on, and towards the end of the year, starting to put the art assets together and see the ending in sight was very motivating. Now,

The Masterminds have some fun outdoors! Happy Winter Holidays! Hope you look forward to more in 2025! — LockedOn.

Characters are finished! What I worked on since the last update: Finished the designs and sprites for the characters Coded the game to a "playable" state Finished File 06 UI recoloring This month went by super quickly, and after designing the characters went so slowly, I've realized I really need to ramp up my productivity if I want File 06 to be released in early 2026. So I've been pushing myself to work more, and have just finished make the File fully "playable" — I'm now a

I have finished writing File 06! What I worked on since the last update: Finished writing File 06 Created 2 music tracks Designed 3 characters Well, it took a little longer than I thought, but I finished writing File 06, which means that The Canada Files is now fully written. I can finally move on to the other parts of the process, which are still difficult but not nearly as much of a struggle to get myself to do. I'm pretty excited about it— it's a dark and dramatic finale.