Spirit City: Lofi Sessions News

All of your support means a lot to us, we're so grateful for the success the game has had so far ❤️

As you might know, our plan is to provide free and paid updates over time, but first, we'd like to know what YOU want!

By taking the time to fill our survey, it helps us gather more information on what the community is looking for, and in-turn lets us provide more meaningful updates to all users of Spirit City!

This should take about 5 to 10 minutes to fill.

You can start filling it in here:
https://tally.so/r/mRzjQd

Thank you so much for your time!
And look forward to our big free update at the end of May!

It's been one month since we launched Spirit City: Lofi Sessions!
It's been a whirlwind of excitement! We're getting so many amazing comments and feedback from players.
We're happy to announce that Steam Community Items are now available, that means you can start earning trading cards while playing!
Community Items available:

• 6 Trading Cards
  
• 6 Emojis
  
• 4 Backgrounds
  

Additionally if you collect all 6 trading cards you will earn a unique badge!
We hope you enjoy them, and look forward to a free content update coming at the end of May!

In this update, we're introducing a new way for the app to use less resource when not in-use.

In addition to the Unfocused FPS cap in update 1.1.0, we've now added a way to automatically reduce the game FPS to a minimum when it is completely minimized. You should be able to see this effect by monitoring your CPU/GPU usage when the game is minimized.

Also, this update let's you rebind the key input of your choice for the UI visibility toggle. You can do this in the Settings - General tab, in-game. You can expect more rebindable shortcuts like these in future updates.

Finally, this update has yet another change on the saving events to help those that we're impacted by progression data loss. We got positive feedback from some players that were affected in the past, and hoping that this over for good!

Thank you so much!

As we're still getting a low amount of reports from players losing their progression save files, here is a tentative fix. This hotfix adds nothing else but should improve the reliability of save events and prevent those mishaps.

If you have been impacted by it, please reach out on our official Discord forum for help.

Thank you for your patience and understanding! :)

Update 1.1.0 has arrived!
It's been 2 weeks since our launch, and the reception has simply been amazing. Thank you so much for all the positive reviews, it warms our hearts!

NEW FEATURES

We're happy to introduce new graphics menu options that will certainly help players fine-tune their game experience for their needs.

• We added a distinct 'FPS cap' option for when the game is 'unfocused' which lets you automatically lower the FPS when you're busy doing something else (when you click away from the game window).
  
• We added a new 'Screen resolution scale' option to help fine-tune your graphics card usage. Setting it to a lower % will make the game a bit more blurry, but can drastically improve performance and temperature/fan noise on laptops.
  
• Generally the other graphic menu options should be more responsive.
  

NEW CONTENT

• We added 2 new hairstyles, a 'Messy Bun Hairstyle' and a 'Short Ponytail Undercut Hairstyle'
  
• New Facial Hair options, and updated existing Facial Hair options
  
• New mugs for your desk accessory
  

ADJUSTMENTS

• For the Steam Achievements that were unlocked while offline, these achievements will now retroactively unlock the next time the game is opened while Steam is online!
  
• We increased passive EXP earned per minute by 50%, to help people reach the level achievements a bit faster, while we think of more meaningful ways to gain EXP and Spirit Credits in the future.
  
• While in windowed mode, we removed the in-game button for 'minimize', 'maximize', and 'quit' in order to use the standard Windows buttons. Due to popular demand, we already reverted back to the borderless WIndows button!
  
• We added an 'Exit game' confirmation window that can be triggered by pressing "Escape" or available trough the Settings menu.
  

BUG FIXES

• Minimized potential scenarios where players could lose progression (often their Spiritographer level and Spirit Credits) after the game was closed forcefully.
  
• Reduced game loading time for some that had their game taking a while to boot-up and seemed stuck on a black screen.
  
• Writing in the Journal will now automatically scroll down as you keep writing more lines.
  
• Feet should no longer disappear at the Bed - Browsing activity.
  
• Removed floating geometry at the Bay Window - Reading activity.
  
• Fixed clipping issues with knee high socks at the Fireplace - Reading activity.
  
• Fixed clipping issues with knee high socks at the Bay Window - Reading activity
  
• Fixed twisted arm at the Bed - Relaxing activity.
  

WHAT'S NEXT?
As promised, we'll keep delivering more content, features, and quality of life (QOL) upgrades throughout the year, We have a big content update planned for the end of May, so please look forward to it! 💗