13 Jun 2026Developer post

New video player more buggy than i thought? [Added old 2025 branch]

Apparently way more people than i thought are having troubles with the new video player. Its hard to nail down the problems since they dont mention the OS they're running. If the current version is broke for you, you can choose the 2025 version. You will only miss out on the rand

Apparently way more people than i thought are having troubles with the new video player. Its hard to nail down the problems since they dont mention the OS they're running. If the current version is broke for you, you can choose the 2025 version. You will only miss out on the random missions features mostly.

OS	Broke?
Windows 11	Worked fine on my Thinkpad and desktop
Linux/Proton	Not working (will be added later)
Windows 10/8/7	Unknown

If you're having problems try to mention the OS and maybe send the Player.log file to me on Discord. (you dont have to tho, dont work hard just to submit a bug)

To revert to an older version:

Right click the game and select "Properties -> Game Versions & Betas"

This is not a permanent fix to the problem, I'll work on making the new video player better in the meantime. Please bare with this mess ːsteamsadː

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22 May 2026Developer post

Fixed terrible bug...

* Fixed the game not not merging new SaveData_Base files with old saves. players dont need to create a new save anymore. Im really sorry, I thought i had this logic added in the original code. If its still broken for you try "verifying integrity of game files" on the steam game s

* Fixed the game not not merging new SaveData_Base files with old saves. players dont need to create a new save anymore. Im really sorry, I thought i had this logic added in the original code.

If its still broken for you try "verifying integrity of game files" on the steam game settings

* If anyone completed the storyline but had to erase their file to play the update: you can copy this save file here: SaveData.json (located in streaming assets/projects/OtakuEngine)

modify "playerName" to your liking

(SaveData.json)

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"currentString_default": "About", "currentString": "PoliceStation_Hub", "events": \[] }, { "id": "966e2797-ffe3-4376-9154-da6b1746dd07", "note": "playerName", "idOfParent": "", "childIndex": 0, "children": \[], "position": { "x": 0.0, "y": 0.0, "z": 0.0 }, "rotation": { "x": 0.0, "y": 0.0, "z": 0.0, "w": 0.0 }, "currentString_default": "NEET", "currentString": "NEET", "events": \[] }, { "id": "ae25acfa-4cb0-4f40-865c-72d59b2587ef", "note": "!playerMoverToSpawnOn", "idOfParent": "", "childIndex": 0, "children": \[], "position": { "x": 0.0, "y": 0.0, "z": 0.0 }, "rotation": { "x": 0.0, "y": 0.0, "z": 0.0, "w": 0.0 }, "currentString_default": "", "currentString": "", "events": \[] }, { "id": "e7ca2ad3-e154-45f9-b82d-bfc0e2ccd54d", "note": "gamePart", "idOfParent": "", "childIndex": 0, "children": \[], "position": { "x": 0.0, "y": 0.0, "z": 0.0 }, "rotation": { "x": 0.0, "y": 0.0, "z": 0.0, "w": 0.0 }, "currentString_default": "", "currentString": "FillerMissions_Epilogue", "events": \[] } 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19 May 2026Developer post

Free to Play + Side story content + New video player

Game is now Free to Play Maybe a supporter pack will be added in the future. However, its 2026, and everything is metrics. leaving a review would help even if its a negative one lol New Video Player - MPV The game now uses MPV for its main video player, since the previous one's w

Game is now Free to Play

Maybe a supporter pack will be added in the future. However, its 2026, and everything is metrics. leaving a review would help even if its a negative one lol

New Video Player - MPV

The game now uses MPV for its main video player, since the previous one's was updated to 800 dollars a year. This plugin was made by me just for the game, its probably not as fast as the previous plugin but it will also be updated along the way.
On the bright side, GIFs now instantly load and are less buggy! Webm support coming soon too!

Map Commissions and Random Maps are back!

The game now uses the in-game event system to manage the commission and random map missions, these are related to the workshop and and optional to do.
To access random maps, talk to Janny in her office
To access map commissions find penn-1
When a player downloads a random map, that map will be added to a text file, this makes sure players dont keep seeing the same maps over and over. Being subscribed to it does not matter like in the previous version.
NEW EVENTS:
UploadMap_OpenWindow: Opens the workshop upload window
Workshop_LoadRandomMap - Loads a completely random map from the workshop
Workshop_LoadRandomMap_NSFW - Loads a completely random map from the workshop
Workshop_CheckConnection - fires the "OnWorkshopConnection_True" or "OnworkshopConnection_False" events
UploadMap_Close - Fires when the player closes the upload window
Workshop_LoadRandomMap_Fail - fires if there was a failure when uploading a map
OnWorkshop_LoadRandomMap_Cancel - when the player cancels going to a workshop map
OnWorkshopConnection_True - fired by "Workshop_CheckConnection"
OnWorkshopConnection_False - fired by "Workshop_CheckConnection"

Game Changes

Updated the unity version to 6.0, hopefully this fixes problems with the game freezing on start on windows 11.
Removed the splash screen game should now be really quick to start-up
Removed event "OnGifRestart", If you want to make an even happen when a gif loops just use "OnVideoEnd" (old maps will just have OnGifRestart Call OnVideoEnd)
Removed subtitle tracks: in order to have this update out faster, i removed it, but its very possible to add in the future again if needed.
Removed the "Set Default" button, you can still set default in the files manually. This was to prevent players from breaking their games.
Added a "Play campaign" button to the play drop down
Added a "PlayCampaign" Event as a global event, this sends the player to the main campaign.
Changed the "play" icon in the main toolbar with a game controller
Fixed the workshop info menu
- added a thumbnail area too
Added a scroll bar to computer events when editing
Added a "sort by" dropdown to events? (Sort by onParameter, doParameter, delay, )
Added expand all/close all button to event list
Improved some project-related stuff, project handling is still a bit jank. Zip files are also very slow to save, im hoping to improve this in the future.
prevented maps outside of /maps to be picked for project initial map start
Turned off global settings before the map loads(previously changing a global entity could overwrite the entire project list)
Added a subtle (0.1 second) click prevention when dialogue and dialogue choice box ends, to prevent the player from quickly clicking and starting some dialogue again in chained dialogue events.
Added a warning when toggling fullscreen in config, this was due to the self written MPV addon. Maps will need to be reloaded when toggling full screen.

Next update when?

Hopefully the next one or two major updates makes it come out of early access and be finished. ("Major updates" meaning new content and mechanics).

Some problems im aware of: for some reason windows 11 makes the game more jank

The file browser window opens BEHIND the game on some of my systems and not for others.
Sometimes the game gets stuck when any file gets extracted, this might be the windows defender doing its thing or not. Will try to look into it soon.

Laid back Discord

https://discord.gg/xH4EwhU6DW

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12 Dec 2025Developer post

Heads Up! Game will be transitioning to Free-to-play in the next update

This serves as a multiple-month warning for anyone buying. Greedy monetization coming? The opposite Why free to play? I don't have time for marketing, and i do this cause i like it. "But i bought the game" I am seriously really thankful, along with all the people who played it an

20 Feb 2025Developer post

Bug Fixes

- New: Made the show when using the poster click-through event - removed audio source events from PathChild entity - auto resizing of a border frame on empty poster not working on level start. FIXED. - Blocks with “ignore player click” not working on level start. FIXED - Legacy m

06 Feb 2025Developer post

Hotfix

Fixed shadow lighting when loading older maps.

06 Feb 2025Developer post

Added original "toon/cel" shader back. To make old maps work again

Shader: "Cel (Legacy)" The reason why it was left out at first: - I wanted to make a toon shader that supports MULTIPLE lights, but its going to take a bit of work. For now only ONE directional light will work, just like before. Also, things like xray and vertex snapping wont wor

05 Feb 2025Developer post

Regional Hotfix #2

Fixed an error certain regions would have when using the "OnClick" event. (or any event that used a "range" of some sort)

05 Feb 2025Developer post

Hotfix

Fixed a bug that prevented maps from loading due to incorrect parsing of time zone format. (thank you El gato for helping fix it)

04 Feb 2025Developer post

Major Update: Story + Level Editor Update

New Features: * New Level editor features that makes maps "interactive". (similar to Source Hammer editor's events that are easy to learn) * New campaign content (still a work in progress). Visit the website for more details on stuff:

10 Jun 2023Developer post

When will the next major update release?

why bother making this announcement? TLDR: A campaign and new editing tools are being worked on. It might take a while to release though. Dont expect anything other than important bug fixes here and there until then. New Upcoming Tools. Since the campaign will be built using the

24 Mar 2023Developer post

hotfix

* Fixed a bug where uploaded videos would not play on materials * Fixed a bug where uploaded gif media would not play on skybox * Fixed a bug that froze the map preparation screen if the user used the same media on the skybox, and on a material. * Fixed bug where "Bot monster" me

24 Mar 2023Developer post

Workshop - Map Media Packer

No more having to use external links. Proper workshop uploads are now supported! (you may still create maps solely out of external links if you want to). A Warning: This feature is meant for creating custom maps and galleries. Any uploads abusing the Steam Workshop file storage w

No more having to use external links. Proper workshop uploads are now supported! (you may still create maps solely out of external links if you want to).

A Warning: This feature is meant for creating custom maps and galleries. Any uploads abusing the Steam Workshop file storage will be removed.

Workshop Map Uploads

Any local media used in map will now be uploaded along with the map onto the workshop.
If your map has any local media on the map you picked to upload. ANY valid files in it will be copied from your computer drives, and onto the workshop.

Process: Map prepartion screen -> Upload Screen - Success!

The current max upload size for now is 1gb(to keep download times low). This is experimental and may be changed in the future.

Note: this will not upload any media used in a "random folder path" address. This is done to prevent unwanted images from being uploaded without the map creator knowing.

Map Downloading

Instead of freezing the player on a download screen, a bar at the bottom will show progress instead.

Workshop Browser

Maps will show you the status: not downloaded, downloading, or downloaded (unsubscribe X button showing)
You can now unsubcribe from maps by clicking the x.

Added file browser button to skybox media and level audio.

Door Previews

Door previews for workshop items will now only show the workshop thumbnail instead. The 3D map preview feature still works for local and online url map paths.

Changed Achievements

Since workshop uploads can be larger in file size now. Made some of the achievements a bit less annoying.

Map subscription achievements: Be subscribed to 10/25/50 maps.
CoMission: complete 10 map missions.

Changed some Prologue Dialogue

Basically,
Workshop upload = local files get uploaded and directory paths cleared(for privacy reasons).
Anything outside the workshop = Make sure to use URLs, and don't leave in PC directory paths (for privacy reasons)

Map music Now Loops

"Folder Path (Random)" Warning

Added a warning about using folder directory paths. Media loaded this way will not work with workshop uploads (to prevent users from accidentally uploading unwanted things). Workshop image uploading was never planned, so this function will not work and might be replaced by level generation in the future.

Removed Default Materials Tab

They are still there but will not show up on the list anymore. Use the option below...

Added a template textures button

If you want to use basic textures again, try looking in there.

Added a Textures folder in the game's StreamingAssests folder

Included some free CC0 public domain texture packs.

Added notifications on material create/edit/delete

Misc.

Faces of a block wont get highlighted anymore when the material menu is open.

Fixed a bug where edited material paths would not update

Fixed a bug where images under 8 x 8 would not work

Whats next

Next Major update will likely be the gamemode/campaign update. The game may still receive small updates/fixes along the way.

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22 Mar 2023Developer post

hotfix

Fixed a bug where old maps saved after the "Level Editing Update" would have their old textures replaced with the default "Basic - Dev" texture. Sorry to anyone who didnt make a back up. These old preset materials are part of the old texturing set up. Its better to use "custom" m

17 Mar 2023Developer post

hotfix

- removed some unused vr libraries. (caused crashes on my end) + added a wheel picker tip about object selection duplication

09 Mar 2023Developer post

hotfix

* fixed a problem where changing a custom material url would remove that material from blocks on load

07 Mar 2023Developer post

Level Editing Update Part 1 of ?

This update is small in size, but it brings major changes to map creation possibilities. First of all. Thank you for your patience. This is the first major update of many for the game. It was slow to develop because it was very technical for me. This "game" was made to create sim

This update is small in size, but it brings major changes to map creation possibilities.

First of all. Thank you for your patience. This is the first major update of many for the game. It was slow to develop because it was very technical for me.

This "game" was made to create simple abstract worlds with. The major focus is on the "gallery" building and media sharing. But i saw people having difficulty simply creating a "normal room". Because of this, i worked on adding some tools to make things easier.

The game is still meant for building abstract worlds, but these new tools should make some things a lot easier to build

Painter Tool Changes:

Player can now create custom textures using media

You can use images, gifs, and videos(videos will be muted).

Players can now re-color and paint the individual faces of a block

The painter tool now copy and pastes the UV properties of a face

Added the ability to change the transparency of the color

Make sure to use a transparent shader!

Added Transform Tool

Lets you select multiple blocks, resize individual blocks, rotate, and duplicate.

You can snap to corners by holding X.

Added Corner Editing Tool

This will break some things such as movement, object placement, and cause texture warping. But its there if you want it.

Added UV Face editing Tools

UV Offset: Change the offset of a texture

UV Scale: Change the scale of a texture

UV Rotation: Change the rotation of a texture

Added tool descriptions and tips on the wheel menu

Added "creative mode"

press v when inside one of your maps (will not work while exploring a workshop or online url map)

Smaller Changes

* Changed the ambience in the hub.

* Images under 64x64 resolution will now have texture filtering disabled(for pixel art)

* Added hub button confirmation window

* Block destroyer tool now has infinite range

* Removed the notification warnings about empty canvases that on level start (some players thought the map was broke when in reality the map had empty canvas templates for them to use).

Problems im aware of

* Currently, using texture UV tools may not align them accurately. pressing up or down on the scroll wheel will either make an offset too far, or too close. It would have been easy to simply add an input field that lets you change the decimals accurately, however, these types of precision mechanics are not in the "abstract" spirit of the game.

* Duplicating posters will load the media as if it is unique! (this will be fixed in a future update).

Whats next?

"Level Editing Update Part 1 of ?"
Since this is a gallery exploration sandbox, it leaves room open for many possibilities such as real time lighting and model importing. However none of this is confirmed. There are bigger issues to resolve at the moment. Such as:

1. I noticed while playing, a lot of players dont link to online urls OR the url goes down, causing the media not to load at all. The next update will likely focus on image packing images from your computer onto the map.

2. The game still dosnt have a real campaign, theres no incentive for players to explore maps. Next major update will likely be related to a new gamemode/campaign. (similar to the prologue)

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17 Dec 2022Developer post

New Video Player

Changes Replaced Video Player! You should be able to play most supported videos now without getting codec errors (current supported video is: mp4, webm, mkv). Its not a perfect setup(video looping is a bit delayed) but VLC is very flexible. Im hoping in the future i can get aroun

12 Dec 2022Developer post

Workshop Tags And About Mature Content

ABOUT MATURE CONTENT I got a lot of questions about mature content and worked to add age ratings tags ASAP. The rules being applied are very similar to the way other games handle their mature workshop content. IN-GAME WINDOW Mature maps that are not tagged appropriately may be re

07 Dec 2022Developer post

HotFix ("return" revision)

The "return" thing in the spawn area originally worked as a "back button" but for most people it was misunderstood and not very useful. players can create their own "back button" in maps using doors anyways. Walking into It simply teleports you back to the hub now

Updates & announcements

Game is now Free to Play

New Video Player - MPV

Map Commissions and Random Maps are back!

Game Changes

Next update when?

Laid back Discord

New Upcoming Tools.

The good news.

The bad news.

Upcoming Discount:

Workshop Map Uploads

Map Downloading

Workshop Browser

Added file browser button to skybox media and level audio.

Door Previews

Changed Achievements

Changed some Prologue Dialogue

Map music Now Loops

"Folder Path (Random)" Warning

Removed Default Materials Tab

Added a template textures button

Added a Textures folder in the game's StreamingAssests folder

Added notifications on material create/edit/delete

Misc.

Whats next

Painter Tool Changes:

Player can now create custom textures using media

Players can now re-color and paint the individual faces of a block

The painter tool now copy and pastes the UV properties of a face

Added the ability to change the transparency of the color

Added Transform Tool

Added Corner Editing Tool

Added UV Face editing Tools

UV Offset: Change the offset of a texture

UV Scale: Change the scale of a texture

UV Rotation: Change the rotation of a texture

Added tool descriptions and tips on the wheel menu

Added "creative mode"

Smaller Changes

Problems im aware of

Whats next?

Changes

Additions

Removed

Bug Fixes

Whats next... (besides fixing bugs)

Additions

Bug Fixes