A Dance of Fire and Ice — patch notes and updates
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| 7 Years of ADOFAI: New World and New Featured Levels! | 2026-01-25 | Happy New Year!Hopefully you enjoyed the holidays. It's been a little quiet on our end, but we've actually still been working on the game behind-the-scenes all this time, slowly working on updates. We had to take a bit of a break to focus on releasing our other game, Rhythm Doctor, into its full 1.0 and then taking a few weeks to rest afterwards. But now that we're back…we have a new ADOFAI update for you, just in time for the 7th Anniversary of the game's release! Here's what's new:World AR: LibertasNew Featured Levels: Classic Wave 12 and Tech Wave 3We also want to let you know that we're almost done with the Nintendo Switch version of A Da |
| New Featured Levels: Classic Wave 11 and Tech Wave 2! | 2025-08-13 | Hello! We hope you've been enjoying the game, especially our previous waves of community-made Featured Levels!We're currently working hard on porting the game to the Nintendo Switch, but we wanted to release another two waves of new Featured Levels while you wait. Today, we have a Classic Wave (levels that follow the general design rules of the main levels) and a Tech Wave (levels for advanced players that embrace community-made design ideas.)Have fun!Level Editor ImprovementsTile Shape: You can now select between a more rectangular shape or a more square shape for your tilesWe've attempted to fix some inconsistencies with pause tile & Freero |
| A Small Surprise! | 2025-04-01 | Surprise! As of April 1st, you'll see you'll see a new tile waiting for you in the main menu. You can also trigger it by typing in the cheat code "firestix" on the main menu. This special update will stay up for a week. You'll need to beat 6-X first to access it, because it isn't quite "beginner" territory. Have fun with it! We hope you enjoy the little surprise. --- If you don't mind spoilers, here's what we've added... Enabling the crab tile on the main menu will take you to a new version of the game, with new versions of the first few worlds. These joke worlds are created by Firestix, one of our level artists. Once you clear the new versio |
| New Featured Levels: Tech Wave 1 | 2025-02-03 | Version 2.9.2 As of recently, it's been six years since we first launched A Dance of Fire and Ice on Steam! Over that time, we've received a tidal wave of support way beyond anything we could have predicted. Thank you to everyone who has played, left reviews, told their friends, and made videos about ADOFAI. Thanks to your continued interest, we've been able to spend all these years working on updates and improvements. Brick by brick, we've expanded the game into something much bigger than we had imagined in 2019. One of those bricks has been the addition of Featured Levels. With Featured Levels, we're able to work directly with talented crea |
| Featured Levels Wave 10 + Level Editor Updates | 2024-12-10 | UPDATE: Partial rollback of Wave 10 Featured Levels December 11th 2024: Due to a licensing mistake on our end, we have removed a few of the new Featured Levels temporarily. We hope to be able to return the new levels as soon as possible The affected levels include: 〇、 humanity REBIRTH We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and we take full responsibility for the mistake. We'll provide an update when we have more to share. Thank you for understanding. --- Version 2.9.0 A Dance of Fire and Ice Coming to Nintendo Switch As you might remember, we're bringing A Dance of Fire and Ice to the Nintendo Switch! We were so happy to be included in |
| New Xtra World: Party of Spirits! | 2024-08-27 | Version 2.8.0 New Xtra World: XS-X Party of Spirits Music by: Cansol Tutorial Music by: Blooky Level by: NumbEr07 VFX by: Firestix Let's party! This was a really fun world to make. We knew we wanted to work with this piece for a long time, especially with how quick and bouncy it is. It was a perfect opportunity to introduce a new character, our Tiger. Firestix went the extra mile on animating all of our ideas, and we love how it came out. Enjoy! New Featured Levels Olie - Temple Of Treasure Temple Of Treasure is one of the 5 episodes of Everypence, a story written by Olie. TeoC loved Olie's story so much he decided to adapt it to ADOFAI. We w |
| New Xtra World and 5-Year Anniversary! | 2024-02-06 | It's the 5-Year Anniversary of A Dance of Fire and Ice! Thank you so much for playing our game all these years. It's been amazing to watch how the custom level community has gotten better and better over time. The levels that the community has made are so creative, and the skills on display by the streamers who play them have been really impressive. We're a really small team, so we never imagined that people would still be playing after all this time. We hope you continue to enjoy the game! To celebrate, we've added one new Xtra World and a set of new Featured Levels. Version 2.7.0 New Xtra World: Miko Skip World XM: Miko Skip Music by Kirara |
| New Featured Levels, New Editor Decorations, and More! | 2023-10-23 | Version 2.6.0 New Team Members: We've added a few new members to the 7th Beat Games team! Hyonsu and Paring are two programmers who have come aboard to help us with all sorts of ADOFAI features, especially for the level editor. They work fast and have been incredibly helpful members of the team for the past few months. Rikri and rKizCora have also joined us! rKizCora is helping us with Featured Level selection and Rikri is helping us with licensing and communication with level creators. Having them assist us is crucial to us being able to add more Featured Levels, so we super appreciate it. It's a lot of things to manage at once while develop |
| New Featured Levels and Level Editor Updates! | 2023-06-03 | Version 2.5.0 is out now! This update has a whopping 7 new levels in the Featured Levels section, plus some UI + Quality of Life improvements, and new features in the Level Editor! Remember that every so often we find some really stellar community levels, get permission from the original song's artist and the level's creator, and add it to the game. You can find it by going to the Custom Level Select and then entering the "Featured" section. New Featured Levels: LORELEI Music by: Camellia Level by: Jo Future, Irin, and Bingsu "This level's music was commissioned for the final tie-breaker level in the ADOFAI World Cup! Camellia's music is note |
| New World: "It Go" | 2022-12-27 | Hello! We figured we'd surprise you with one more update for 2022. After this, we'll see you in the new year! New World World XI: It Go (Music by answearing machine, Level by Rikri, Character Design and Assets by Kyle, Animation and VFX by Firestix) There's a few things we want to note about this world. This is our first time working with our new VFX Artist, Firestix! You may know him from his many…cursed…works in the Steam Workshop! Firestix went absolutely above and beyond with the animation in this new world, we're really excited for you to check it out. This world is very fast and difficult, intended for a hardcore audience. You can only |
| New World and New Featured Levels! | 2022-12-09 | Hello! The year is coming to a close, but we finished a new world we're excited to share. We also have some improvements to the Custom Level Editor, and some new Featured Levels. New World! World XN: Trans-Neptunian Object (Music and Illustrations by Valerie Halla, Level by Jenny, Tutorial Music by Blooky) For this level, we had the honor of collaborating with illustrator, cartoonist, and composer Valerie Halla! We were excited enough to get a chance to chart her track, but being able to work together on the visuals was an exciting bonus. You can find the level on Xtra Island. Additions and Improvements Decoration Dragging: It is possible now |
| Neo Cosmos OST and Future Content! | 2022-06-22 | It's been an exciting month! In case you missed it: our DLC expansion, Neo Cosmos, is out now! It's been two weeks since we've launched the DLC, and the reaction has been really amazing. Thank you all for your support and your feedback. We had been working on Neo Cosmos for a long time in secret, keeping most of the details to ourselves, and hoped that you would find it as fun and surprising as we did while playtesting. Thank you all so much for playing. Here's a summary of everything new that's happened since then! Version 2.0.3 (r92) Release Notes Warning: Gameplay spoilers for Neo Cosmos below! We have some new Accessibility Features. If y |
| The Neo Cosmos DLC is Available Now! | 2022-05-30 | A Dance of Fire and Ice: Neo Cosmos is now available! Neo Cosmos is an expansion DLC we've been working on for a while now, and we're excited for you to finally play it. It adds new worlds, new game mechanics, all-new music, and new Level Editor events. The DLC is directed by TaroNuke, creator of NotITG and UKSRT. Check out his previous works and you may get an idea of his game design style! Taro was incredible to work with, and has been crafting this expansion from the ground up for a long time. He has a very particular skill and style for making levels, which was perfect for a game like A Dance of Fire and Ice. Once you have the DLC, you ca |
| New World: 3-Year Anniversary Update! | 2022-01-28 | Version 1.15.0 release notes 3-Year Anniversary Update It’s hard for us to believe that it’s already the 3rd Anniversary of launching A Dance of Fire and Ice on Steam, but here we are. Time has flown by, and we continue to be surprised and honored by the positive feedback we’ve seen from players about our simple rhythm game. We really appreciate everyone who has played the game, whether you’ve mastered the skills on your own, shared your scores with friends, or streamed yourself marathoning 6-X until you finally got it right. To celebrate the 3-Year Anniversary, we’ve got a few additions to the game this week! Here's our full changelog if you |
| ADOFAI Changelog - v1.14.1 (r78) | 2021-12-07 | ADOFAI Changelog - v1.14.1 (r78) These are changes released in December 2021, from the previous Steam announcement in October 2021, including the alphas and betas in between. These are mostly QoL tweaks and editor. Note: with this version, we are now on a new **Unity 2021** engine, which brings improvements in input drops or lag. Input drops should not be a problem now. You can view the full changelog with descriptions and example images at our Notion Page linked here. |
| Three New Worlds for ADOFAI x Muse Dash! | 2021-10-11 | Version 1.14.0 release notes Our collaboration with Muse Dash by Pero Pero Games is here! Three new worlds have been added, you can find them in a new location on the main menu after completing Worlds 1 through 5. New Worlds: Night Wander (cnsouka Remix), with music by cnsouka, and guest VFX by Rikri La nuit de vif, with music by Polymath9, guest VFX by Rikri, and ML-3/ML-5 tutorial music by natebcarson EMOMOMO, with music by Ras, level design by Nichipe, guest VFX by Riya and Nichipe, and background animation by Riya Full changelog (including level editor changelog) here. We had a great time working together with Pero Pero Games to bring Mus |
| ADOFAI New Beta Version 1.12.0 (r71) | 2021-03-31 | Today we brushed the dust off the ADOFAI code, and we found a bunch of stuff we have been working on since our last release in... Halloween!! Whoa! Well, here's some long awaited fixes and features in version 1.12.0: Custom Level Select: - Search by song/artist name - Added sorting options - Newly downloaded levels have a "New!" indicator - You can now skip tutorials on already played levels - Fixed gems/chains appearing when there are no levels added New Editor features: - New "Add Text" event, which adds a block of text that can be moved like a decoration - New "Set Text" event, which allows you to change text decorations by tag - New "Scro |
| Rhythm Doctor is out TODAY! (+ ADOFAI News and Bundle) | 2021-02-26 | Our new rhythm game, Rhythm Doctor, is out now on Steam Early Access! Much like A Dance of Fire and Ice, Rhythm Doctor is a one-button rhythm game meant to explore rhythm gameplay in a new way. By pressing the Spacebar on the 7th beat, you can save patients' lives by synchronizing with their heartbeats. The Early Access release also includes... 20+ handmade levels, each with their own story. A large cast of doctors and patients to meet in the overarching narrative Robust level editor to make, share, and play community levels! Use your own music, place notes snapped to the beat, and use 50+ different visual effects and backgrounds Challenging |
| Steam Workshop Support Added! | 2020-10-19 | Version 1.11.0 release notes Steam Workshop support is here! Visit our Workshop to easily browse custom levels made by the community. Download a level you’d like to play by clicking the green “Subscribe” button, then the level will appear in the Custom Level Select section of the game’s main menu. If you’re looking for some great levels to start with, try the levels that rank high in the “Most Subscribed” tab or levels tagged with the “Easy” or “Medium” difficulty. Another great place to start is to download the levels from the RDL Constellations collection, which is a set of levels recommended by the moderator staff on our Discord Server. A |
| Two New Xtra Worlds! Collaboration with "Project Arrhythmia"! | 2020-06-27 | Version 1.10.0 release notes We've added two new Xtra levels to the game! A new Xtra level, ‘Final Hope’, has been added! The song is by Riya, and the level design is by Rikri. Test your skills with quick square-shaped corners and keep the beat through a heavy snowstorm. Another new Xtra level, 'Distance', has been added! The song is by Meganeko and the level design is by Fancybread. This song is from Project Arrhythmia, a rhythm dodger game available now on Steam! New editor features: Event Tags: Use tagging to specify which Events should be affected by others (for example: which Events to repeat using “Repeat Events”) Set Conditional Events |