Korter team is sending off the year with our last 2025 update!

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Hope all of you are safe and well! For us this year has been very much focused on Korter 1996, with the release in June and polishing the rough edges with updates over the following months. Right now, we are very tired but happy, ready to wrap up and put a bow on the Korter year.

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What weve added and fixed in this update:

Technical

• Updated Unity version to address the Unity engine vulnerability\nhttps://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01

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• Fix for the pink menu on Mac bug

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• Improved pixel precision in outline rendering

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• Fix a bug with the Tab shortcut making a softlock possible

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Gameplay

• Added new seasonal items to the seamstress apartment

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• Added new books, a clock and other items to the seamstress apartment

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• Added extra placement areas to apartments with fewer options

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• Added a special gift box to the player apartment (unlocked when you get to the end and select Continue, this one works in existing save files)

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Visual Improvements

• Added visual highlights to some menu buttons

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• Added a controls summary, viewable from the pause menu

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• Improved composition for the pattern notebook

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• Adjusted glass dresser doors to improve placement options

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• Replaced some duplicated postcards with unique art

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• Improved alignment in the player notebook, and touched up the page turn animations

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Heres a little recap of 2025:

• In February, we updated our demo with lots of UI polish, our first step towards release

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• Korter 1996 released on 19th June!

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• In September, we were nominated for the Wings award at BLON festival in Lithuania

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• Then, in October, we won the Estonian Game of the Year 2025 award from Mngude in Estonia!

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• Mari-Anna was live on the Estonian morning TV show, Terevisioon, to talk about our game alongside the host of Mngude

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• The very next week, we showcased our game at TipiLAN in Tallinn, and ran a decorating competition

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• November and December were pretty quiet by comparison, except for a surprise New Years Eve Update!!! (This one, the post youre reading!)

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Next year were excited to celebrate 30 years from when the Korter 1996 storyline took place! I hope youll stick with us and check out the little update we have in mind for then. For now, its time to move forward and dream of new creative projects for 2026

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Wishing you a happy New Year

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Pig and the Korter 1996 team

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Fixed a layering issue that hid a puzzle piece in some cases [spoiler]in the Mechanic\'s apartment.[/spoiler]

Hey everyone!

We\'re back with an autumn update for Korter 1996!

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This update is packed with bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, and a few extra story-beats, interactions and items. You can safely use your existing save game and see the newly added items, and if you already completed the game, I would recommend experiencing the ending again!

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Content changes:

• Improved UI for the start of the game

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• Improved credits sequence with where are they now pictures

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• Wallpaper and colour enhancements in the Mechanics apartment

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• More items for the Seamstress

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• Recoloured the cat

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Bug fixes:

• Continued fixes to decrease the chance of the pink screen bug on Mac

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• Fixed a couple of sprite sorting and placement issues

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• Fixed an incorrect post-it label on the liquid puzzle

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• Fixed the \"Plushie Picnic\" achievement triggering

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• Fixed a layering issue on the PC

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• Made sure you can pet the cat, even after you completed all the content in that apartment!

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The path ahead for Korter 1996 definitely features a few more of these updates. We launched the game with the full story we wanted to tell and a generally bug free path from start to end, so we\'re really proud of that! But were not quite done yet. For future updates we want to make every apartment feel really lived in, and make sure every character\'s story is properly realised and has a satisfying finale. Next up, well do a big items update, making the decorating part more interesting and versatile.

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In other exciting news

Starting now: Spelkollektivet 8th Anniversary Sale!

That means;

- Korter 1996 is 20% off!

- Korter 1996 is 50% off if you purchase the Spelkollektivet Mega Bundle!

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It means a lot to be included since Spel has been the place that supported us throughout the development of Korter.

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Thanks for supporting us and playing our game :)

Flan, Mari-Anna, Brian & Mitsuko <3

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Korter 1996 July Update

Oooh, so its been almost three weeks after our release and honestly, it feels more like a month. Weve been doing small patches to deal with the more annoying bugs based on your feedback and on Tuesday we published a bigger update that concludes this months patch-work.

Bug fixes

• The morning recording sequence had trouble starting automatically after loading the game so we decided for it to be interaction-based. So, you have to make the extra click to start the recording but it now always works.

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• An issue on some Mac models made all of the sprites turn hot pink until you toggled fullscreen, so we got a slightly dirty fix to make it refresh the sprites on startup.

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• Steam Achievements went live last week but now weve made sure you can actually achieve all of them.

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• Made sure music always switches when going through the Main Menu.

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Other

• Added a new cursor type for navigating the stairs.

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• Fixed some visuals where objects werent perfectly aligned with outlines.

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• Added more variation in item placement SFX.

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• Made sure all the drawers sound like drawers when opened.

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• Added some other visual and audio adjustments, improving on continuity.

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Update timeline

Well be working on more updates in the coming seasons, adding in some of the stuff we wanted to but didnt have time for earlier. This is a not set in stone plan for what you can expect from us in the next months.

August - Summer update - Items and stuff

October - Autumn update - More backrooms and lore

+ Regular patches to deal with bugs

Thank you so much for playing

Mari-Anna, Flan & Brian

We fixed even more things!

• The loading order for Progress is now 100% accurate
• Unlocking achievements show the Steam toast immediately, instead of after the game
• When loading, the notebook now opens to the correct page
• When quitting to main menu during a sleep scene, the night sounds stop
• Some plates were given different names so they load correctly
• Attempt to fix a visual glitch the first time you look at each scene after a load
• The PC now correctly adds UI elements when loading
• Wallet slots now show what is in them immediately when loading
• Daily recap trigger now happens even after a load
• Fix the Day 5 softlock that stopped you sleeping
  

Hello everyone!

I hope you have been enjoying this first week of playing with Korter 1996! We've been so thrilled to see your screenshots, reviews and lovely comments on our game. We wanted to reward some of your more... interesting decorating choices, and give you a little something to hunt for, so we've added achievements!


Full patch notes:

• Added 30 achievements to the game, including 7 hidden achievements. Can you find them all?
• Fixed several save/load issues
• All items in the game can now be loaded (the load system had an old list of items, and would miss a few things towards the end of the game)
• When loading, progression actually unlocks in the right order this time. (I thought I fixed this in the hotfix, but I guess it slipped through)
• Added sound effects to lots of items that either had no pickup/place sound or had the default sound
  

Hi there!

We're so happy people are enjoying our game and leaving lovely feedback. We've got a great hotfix for you this morning, basically fixing the entire save/load system, so you can actually take your time and decorate your Korter over multiple sessions <3

• Major fix to loading save games. (It now unlocks your progress in the correct order, so that the correct objects are activated and triggered in the correct order)
• Save which items you've taken out of the catalogue, no more infinite items sorry
• Fix the Back button in menu being blocked when in 16:10 ratio (it was the version number overlapping)
• Music transitions back to the regular in-game track if you press "Continue" after credits
  

Our final demo patch before the release is now live! Just in time for Next Fest. Weve done a big UI overhaul to make it feel more like its part of the world that you are exploring. You can read more about the details below.

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• You can now sit down and enjoy your tea while you read your notebook
• Turn your notebook pages by hand!
• You will be able to collect puzzle pieces in your wallet
• Listen back to your audio notes with a portable cassette player
• Avoid surprise scene transitions with handy confirmation dialogues
• Clickable areas give you a feeling in your fingers (and a rainbow on your cursor)
  

• Resizing item sprites and adjusting deadzones for easier pickup
• Adjusting shelf sizes for more snug placements
• Cleaned up any locked doors that were unavailable in the demo
  

• Optimizing to improve performance of different devices
• Cap framerate and prevent a couple of issues at super high framerates
• Fix gravity not working on top of the toy bears head
• Slight colour palette updates
  

After the demo launch, taking some time off and looking at the project with fresh eyes we've now made some fixes that we thought were important for making the demo more enjoyable. If you haven't got to trying it out yet, now's a good time.

Here's a summary of what we've improved:

Content Changes

• Made the placements in the starting apartment feel more snug
• Added an audio-visual treat to solving the final puzzle of the demo
• Some characters now have hidden portraits until you meet them
• Improved the puzzle-solving flow in apartment 5
  

Bug Fixes

• Fix some bugs where you could click through solid sprites
• Fix some outlines not showing correctly when hovering over objects
• Fix some hints that werent showing up
• Prevent UI elements going over the edge of the Address Book
• Increased the interaction area for some awkward sprites
• Changed the magazine when you already found it
• Fix transparent items being invisible when previewed
• Fix a visual error in the portal shader at large resolutions