I feel so sorry for those who lacked the ability to enjoy the fun of figuring out the blurry teasers. So, this week, it’s a plain old straight screenshot.

…but this will be the last one.

Some argued that there was no point to showing all the blurry teasers, claiming that it would be better to not show at all, or deny the significance of this site. That, made me sad.

There were many reasons why we set up this site.

First, of course to tease the future of osu!, showing where osu! is heading in the future. ppy kidnapped me and wouldn’t release me until I’ve redesigned every single osu! thing.

None of the designs featured here are final; everything’s shown here are just drafts made for the developers, not for the public. Throughout the development process, a lot changed; for example, the new forum is different that the original after we’ve run some usability tests.

Don’t be disappointed that some of the things teased here may be dropped because, reasons.

I’m sure that I’ve mentioned this, many times. Many times.

Second reason is a lot more personal to me; to show what I’ve designed for osu! so far. I’ve been working for osu! for a very long time but not many of my designs have been delivered out to the wild.

If I met other designers and I told them that I design for osu!, my credibility as a professional designer would instantly crash if they see the current osu! website, or game. Repeatedly, I had to say “most of my work have not been implemented yet”.

So, I would redirect many to this site if they wanted to see what I’ve worked on recently.

Most of the design are not yet implemented on the client because the devs are busy working on other equally important things too; like maintaining the game, dealing with the community, obliterating bugs, set cheaters’ house on fire and many more. All that, while implementing new features to the game.

So cut them some slack, they’re going all out on making the game better. If you’ve been reading ppy’s blog, he mentioned that he’s working hard on the important foundations that would make implementing all the future features easier than before.

Third, we wouldn’t want to destroy our surprise floodgates. Originally, I’ve uploaded actual screenshots of the drafts but we thought that we were revealing too much. Too much that when it’s implemented, we wouldn’t have anymore surprises.

Hence, the blurry shots.

Also it takes a lot more effort to take them blurry shots, it became my permanent routine every Friday that I actually enjoyed doing.

We love our surprises and we really, really can’t wait to show it to you all.

I hope you understand, and again, bajillion of thanks for your patience and support. Look forward for more blurry shots next week, and ultimately for the new designs to be implemented in the near future.

As usual, feel free to drop me a “hi”, or send pictures of cats to my twitter @_flyte

Have an awesome weekend.