Kagami: An Odyssey in Japanese Language Learning

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• Patch Notes·6 Oct 2025Official

  Unity Application Vulnerability Patch 10/06/2025

  Hello! Unity recently let us know there was a vulnerability in applications built using their software.Per Unity themselves: Applications that were built using affected versions of the Unity Editor are susceptible to an unsafe file loading and local file inclusion attack depending on the operating system, which could enable local code execution or information disclosure at the privilege level of the vulnerable application. There is no evidence of any exploitation of the vulnerability nor has there been any impact on users or customers. They provided a patching tool that both devs and players can use for these applications to mitigate the vulnerability (specifically patching the .DLL file). This update includes the patched DLL file for Kagami: An Odyssey in Japanese Language Learning. We will continue to monitor the situation and update the game files again if needed. Thank you for trusting us and playing our game and for all the new players who got it during the recent Autumn sale, we hope you enjoy the it and have fun on your learning journey! Be well and until next time! -Zach
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• Patch Notes·4 Apr 2025Official

  Small Video Codec Update

  Hello! Just a quick video codec update so videos used in the game work better on the Steam Deck (we noticed they would sometimes convert themselves without issues, but other times, they would stay broken, and we finally figured out why!) We are also working on a small stand-alone vocabulary game that we may announce here soon, so keep your eyes peeled for that! Ok dokey, that's it for now. Until next time!
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• Patch Notes·23 Dec 2024Official

  Some Holiday Minigame Fixes and An Update on State of Cloud Saving 12/23/2024

  Hello all! There have been a couple little updates we've been meaning to get around to and some things that we've looked into that we wanted to talk about before for the end of the holiday season as a lot of people have a little more time to invest in playing games during this time and/or may be starting our game to help with their new years resolutions. Updates The gameplay changes mainly involve updating some of the arcade minigames to be a little less difficult, especially at the start of the game. We also finally removed the "Feedback" button from the main menu because we're well out of Early Access and I try to keep my eye out for issues in the Steam forums anyways. About Cloud Saving As an update into one of the larger issues brought up in feedback/reviews, we've done a deep dive into what it would take to get cloud saving working for this game and it would be... a lot. Not only would we have to completely change the way saving works for the game (and the file type being saved), but we realized that it would undoubtedly erase all players current save data. If there were a way of doing so without putting player's data at risk, we would definitely go through with it, but it just seems too unfeasible. I'm very sorry. It happened because of our naivety in game development and is something we will take with us in the future as a lesson. Reviews On a slightly lighter note, we are SO CLOSE to 10 reviews (which is a big deal for games on Steam) so if you've played it or are planning on playing it soon, please consider leaving a review, which will give our game a little better visibility on this platform (steam considers games with less than 10 reviews kind of lesser unfortunately). We would really appreciate it and players coming in looking to see what the game is like based on your experience would benefit from an unbiased viewpoint. To Conclude I want to thank everyone who's bought and played our little game, leaving feedback good and bad, and helped us make the gam...
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• Patch Notes·12 Nov 2024Official

  Quick Kanji Island bug fix 11/11/24

  Quick bug fix for an issue in Kanji Island that loads players outside the playable area after saving in the caves. The issue was found by player Panke (thank you Panke!), hopefully this fixes the issue, and if not, we'll figure something else out for ya! The Kanji Island caves will be treated like other instances (no saving while inside them) which should prevent the issue from reoccurring, but as always, if you find a bug or technical issue, please reach out and we'll try our best to fix it! That's all for today!
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• Patch Notes·27 Jun 2024Official

  Quick Fix for Minigame 6/27/24

  Hello! After doing the scaling fix last week, I accidentally messed up the text for the "Discolor" minigame in the School District! Fortunately, an anonymous user submitted the issue using the issue form on the main menu (Thank you kind person! The Screenshot helped a lot in narrowing down the issue!). Hopefully the new players coming in due to the summer sale will be able to play and enjoy the game without technical issues, but if anybody comes across anything, please feel free to fill out the issue form or let us know in the Steam Discussion Boards. Alrighty, that's all for now. Hope you have fun and learn lots everybody! Cheers!
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