HabjanMate AI: A New Name, and a Necessary Development Pause
Our personalized AI companion project has a new name: HabjanMate AI. We are also making a difficult but necessary decision — to pause active development for the time being.
Paused due to technical demands and limited financial resources; no restart or release date announced.
Why the name changed
The project previously called HaGa AI will now be known as HabjanMate AI. The new name better connects the companion with our studio and gives the project a clearer identity. This is a change of name, not an announcement of a new app or a completed release.
What we actually built and tested
Our early Android prototype explored text conversations, character customization, accounts, voice calls and cloud-based systems. Tests also revealed challenges: delayed voice responses, interruptions that did not feel natural, inconsistent language selection and the cost of running real-time AI services. These are real engineering issues, not details we can safely skip.
Why we are pausing development
HABJAN GAMES is a small independent studio. Real-time AI, cloud infrastructure and repeated testing can generate costs even before an application is available to the public. Together with the time needed to make voice interactions reliable, these financial limits mean that continuing at the same pace would not be responsible. For now, we are putting active development on hold.
What happens next
HabjanMate AI remains a project we would like to revisit when we have the technical capacity and budget to do it properly. Customizable appearance and voice, natural conversations and user-controlled calls remain part of the long-term vision — not promises of finished features. There is no launch date or timetable for restarting development. Meanwhile, we will keep focusing on projects we can support sustainably, including Business Simulator.
We prefer to share an honest development status rather than promise a date we cannot meet. Thank you for following HABJAN GAMES and supporting our work.