Hello there.
Now that my little vacation is over (Yes I released several updates during that break, I am bad at taking breaks) I think a road map for the next bit is warranted, so it's clear where the game is going and how it's going to grow.
First off, I should mention my Patreon, this is where I post my devlogs every other week. (All free, I should set it to not accept money since I don't provide anything paid there...) If you want to see what I've been up to, that's the place to go.
Second off, I do not work in an organized way. I don't decide "This is what I'm doing" and solely do that. I tend to fix things as I encounter them, tweak things as I notice them, and get sucked into rabbit holes. I might decide to work on a spell, and spend 2 days on dialogue. Or decide puzzles need a lot of map-work instead. Additionally, a lot of things need other things done around them, like a new area needs materials, which needs items that use those materials, which need visuals for those upgrades. I can't always predict those, so my goals are always just estimates.
General Roadmap:
My plan is that every month I will pick a goal and write up a roadmap on that goal, even if I detour to other tasks I'll try to achieve that goal by the end of the month.
These goals will be new mechanics, areas, or features. Like a month implementing Cole, or expanding Claudia, or a month working on the Dark Forest.
Some goals may take more than a month, but I'll still post a roadmap at the start of the month about it.
This month:
My goal for this month is simple. (I'm still kinda frazzled from releasing the game, and sending 100 E-mails.)
I plan to finish Ori's story. Which means giving her 2 new heart events, and expanding and double-checking her hang-out dialogue.
(2, not 3 new heart events, because Ori's final story beat actually relies on some content much later on, on someone you haven't seen yet... And I just remembered the UI doesn't show how many there are total any more.)
This is very tame, it should take 2-3 weeks at most, so I might detour to setting up some Steam achievements, or to expanding Claudia as well. We'll see.