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What's in store for version 0.12?

Let's Talk About Challenge Maps

Legacy challenge maps

The future of challenge maps

• [p]A) I keep challenge maps as originally planned.[/p]
• [p]B) I scrap challenge maps entirely.[/p]
• [p]C) I compromise and make challenge maps procedurally generated levels, focusing entirely on interesting gameplay scenarios instead of unique level designs.[/p]

Conclusion

Changelog

Additions

• [p]Added the Super Stretchy Glove item. This item gives you unlimited reach for one minute, allowing you to click on any interactive object you can see no matter how far away it is. It will also allow you to click on things you normally couldn't while squished.[/p]
• [p]Added the Invisibility Elixir. This item will turn you invisible for thirty seconds. NPCs won't be able to see you, however they can still collide with you![/p]
• [p]Added new levels to endless mode alongside a new level select menu. You can now select a level type and size. Note that endless levels are currently all based on levels found in Hide & Seek.[/p]
  • [p]With these changes, all endless mode high scores from previous versions will be erased when updating to this version as they are no longer applicable to the new level selection.[/p]
• [p]There is now a button in Johnny's store that will restock the store when pressed if the player has 250 YTPs. This spawns a new selection of items in all available item slots, replacing any existing items.[/p]

Changes

• [p]Several changes were made to improve endless mode:[/p]
  • [p]A new item will spawn somewhere in the level every time a notebook is collected if there is room for more items.[/p]
  • [p]A new student will spawn in the level alongside a lost item every two minutes if there is room for more items.[/p]
  • [p]Johnny's store no longer starts out closed in endless mode.[/p]
  • [p]Johnny's store no longer restocks every five notebooks the player collects. The store will now only restock when the player purchases a restock with the restock button.[/p]
  • [p]Math Machines will now immediately switch to bonus questions after collecting their notebook in endless mode. They will return to normal if their notebook respawns before the bonus question is solved.[/p]
  • [p]Chalkles can no longer spawn in endless mode.[/p]
  • [p](Pre-release) If all the notebooks in a level have been collected before any respawn, one randomly selected notebook will be forced to respawn immediately.[/p]
  • [p](Pre-release) The bus pass is now replaced with a 100 YTP pickup in endless mode.[/p]
  • [p](Pre-release) Increased the number of NPCs that spawn in large endless maps and decreased the number in the small schoolhouse map.[/p]
• [p]The tutorial store now stocks the super stretchy glove, which can be used to press the button on the other side of the conveyor belt as another option for passing it.[/p]
• [p]Levels 2 and 3 can now generate with a handful of structures found primarily in later levels.[/p]
• [p]Adjusted level sizes to ensure there is always room for Johnny's store to generate.[/p]
• [p](Pre-release) Power levers no longer have a gauge next to them if there is no breaker in the level.[/p]
• [p](Pre-release) Changed the weighting of different structures in levels 2 and 3 for better balancing. More difficult structures are rarer now.[/p]
• [p](Pre-release) Johnny's store now appears purple on the map.[/p]
• [p](Pre-release) Johnny now makes comments when the player purchases or attempts to purchase a restock.[/p]
• [p](Pre-release) The super stretchy glove now allows you to click on all interactive objects even while squished.[/p]

Bug Fixes

• [p](Pre-release) Fixed the box that surrounds the factory level not tiling the wall textures properly.[/p]
• [p](Pre-release) Fixed the way the map reveals rooms that have a mix of open and non-open areas.[/p]
• [p](Pre-release) Fixed the factory sometimes generating with two conveyor belt rooms.[/p]
• [p](Pre-release) Fixed activity-less notebooks not rewarding any YTPs in endless mode.[/p]
• [p](Pre-release) Fixed students in the small schoolhouse level starting their YTP reward at zero.[/p]

Removals

• [p]Removed endless mode's pre-made medium map.[/p]

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Changelog

Changes

• The 'Nana Peel now ignores friction based forces (Conveyor belts, the merry-go-round) when an entity is slipping on it.
  
• The 'Nana Peel now changes direction when a non-friction based force (Gotta Sweep, BSODA) pushes it while an entity is slipping on it.
  
• Slowed down the outer conveyor belts in the factory level so that the player can outrun them a little bit. This opens up more ways for the player to interact with them. The conveyor belts in the conveyor belt room are still the same speed.
  
• Math Machine balloons are no longer sucked into vents or other forces that require overriding the entity.
  
• Made some improvements to The Test's shaking sound.
  
• Made some improvements to the faculty only door sounds.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash which could occur when It's a Bully could not find a valid spawn point.
  
• Fixed Gravity Chaos never ending if a student was given a missing item after the event started and before it ended.
  
• Fixed the Player.log file being filled with tons of the following message: "SteamInput handle for ID Item[7,8,9] was not found."
  
• Fixed a bug that caused rooms to only check one possible orientation when looking for a valid location to generate. This fixes a rare bug that caused laboratory levels to be missing one or more teleporter rooms despite there being plenty of space for them.
  
• Fixed the lightbulb testing room and conveyor belt room having placeholder door textures on rare occasions when rooms with standard doors connect to these rooms.
  
• Fixed the grappling hook that spawns in locked rooms only having four uses instead of five.
  
• Fixed being able to pause on the tutorial completion screen.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed the player to give multiple instances of the same item to one student.
  
• (Probably) fixed a bug that would occasionally result in Math Machine balloons not being popped properly and respawning when they exit a room.
  
• Fixed the camera rotating improperly when being flipped by the gravity event starting or ending while being teleported.
  
• Fixed Principal of the Thing not opening doors when fleeing from an annoying noise that was activated quickly after being sent to detention.
  
• Fixed laboratory levels having some objects not placed consistently on the same seed due to a cascading effect of the zone posters not being seed based.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused visual issues where the turning points in conveyor belt rooms met walls in other rooms.
  
• Fixed wormhole room ambience volume not being controlled by audio settings.
  
• Fixed an issue which caused conveyor belt and wind textures to not update properly when their timescales were being changed.
  
• Fixed an issue where faculty only doors wouldn't be considered closed during level generation, which occasionally resulted in closed off areas being generated by one way and coin door placement.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an error that would break audio, among other things, on the factory level under certain conditions.
  
• Fixed the teleporter control panel not having collision.
  
• Fixed Math Machines not rewarding any more YTPs after incorrectly answering it earlier in a round.
  
• Fixed the outer labels in Johnny's Store being mixed up.
  

Version 0.10

Changelog

Additions

• Added levels four and five to Hide & Seek.
  
  
  
  • Level four contains seven notebooks and will either be maintenance, factory or laboratory. Baldi's speed curve becomes more aggressive in this level than in previous levels.
    
  • Level five contains nine notebooks and will either be maintenance, factory or laboratory.
    
  
  
• Added three new level types: Maintenance, Factory and Laboratory. Each level type has its own unique combination of structures. Level types will never repeat in a run (Excluding the school level type).
  
• Maintenance
  
  
  
  • Added power levers. These can be used to control power and lights in connected classrooms. Classrooms must be powered on to solve their activities.
    
    
    
    • Each power lever has a cable connecting it to its class room. You can follow this cable to figure out which lever controls which room. When a power lever is on, the cable will emit an electric humming sound. When flipping a lever, the room it controls will be discovered on the map if it hasn't been found yet and the room's state will be shown on the map as well.
      
    • Each power lever has a gauge next to it which shows how much power is being used. Turning on too many levers at once will blow a fuse and turn off all the lights in the level.
      
    • When this happens, the player must find the breaker and reset it to restore power to the level. The breaker emits a green light and alarm sound which can be used to easily find it.
      
    • Elevators cannot be entered or closed while the power is out.
      
    
    
  • Added steam valves. Leaky steam pipes fill surrounding areas with clouds of steam which can be hidden in, but reduce visibility. They can be toggled on and off with nearby valves.
    
  • Added the lightbulb testing room. This special room randomly toggles the lights off and on every ten seconds, creating potential hiding spots in unlit areas.
    
  • Added new wall and floor textures and light sprite for maintenance.
    
  
  
• Factory
  
  
  
  • Added the conveyor belt room and new associated conveyor belt structure. This room splits the level into two halves and, when entered, randomly sends the player through a maze of conveyor belts which will send the player elsewhere in the level. This includes two belts at opposite sides of the level which move in opposite directions and can be changed with a button press. These are the primary means by which the player can get from one side of the level to the other.
    
  • Added new floor texture, swing door variant, light object and special suspended ceiling object for the factory.
    
  
  
• Laboratory
  
  
  
  • Added teleporter rooms, the wormhole and faculty only doors. These structures generate in conjunction with each other to split the level into four distinct sections separated by the faculty only doors.
    
    
    
    • A teleporter generates in each section and can be used to get to any other section. Teleporters must cool down for 30 seconds after being used however, so be careful! When pressing a button and opening the teleporter, any entity that enters the teleporter will be sent to the destination, so it is possible for characters to be teleported.
      
    • In the center of the level there is a wormhole room. At the start of a round, this room is closed off, but when all notebooks in a section have been collected, that section gains access to the wormhole room by opening the lockdown doors. The wormhole room is a large room with a wormhole at the center that pulls any entity inside towards it. Any entity that enters the wormhole will be sent somewhere random in the level. When an entity is sent through the wormhole, an indicator appears at that entity's destination a few seconds before it arrives. If you see one appear near you, watch out!
      
    • Faculty only doors are a special type of door that allows all NPCs to pass through, but not the player. The doors only close when the player is detected however, so it is possible to pass through by using certain items or scenarios to your advantage.
      
    
    
  • Added new floor, wall and ceiling textures for the laboratory level.
    
  
  
• Added locked rooms. These are special faculty only rooms that generate with a large lock over the door with a shape on it. In order to remove the lock, players must either find and use the matching key item on it, or access the room by some other means. Locked rooms typically spawn with very valuable items inside. On level two, the locked room will always contain the bus pass.
  
• Added students. These NPCs spawn around classrooms and only wander around nearby areas. Each student that spawns will also cause an associated lost item to generate somewhere else in the level. Standing near a student will cause them to show you what item they are missing. Return the lost item to them in exchange for YTPs. The amount of YTPs you earn for this increases for each student you return an item to in a round.
  
• Added status effect gauges to the HUD. These indicators are used to communicate which effects are active and how long they will last. Some items have been updated to use this instead of their own, unique indicators, such as the Techno Boots and the Faculty Nametag.
  
• Added push pins to the advanced map. These are a special type of marker that are placed in pairs and can be used to marked connections between points on the map. These are useful for marking where vents lead or what buttons control for example.
  

Changes

• When a controller is disconnected, the game will now be paused.
  
• Baldi will now pull players out of the lockers if he hears them hide inside one. This is accompanied by a new voiceline. Baldi won't tag you while he's speaking so you can use this as a chance to escape!
  
• Changed Big Ol' Boots to Techno Boots to more clearly communicate their behavior. Boots now prevent being pushed by forces in addition to movement modifier values. When being moved by an outside force while wearing Techno Boots, the player will move very slightly in the pushed direction to make the effect of the boots more obvious.
  
• Reduced the volume of Beans' voicelines.
  
• Gravity flippers now freeze time while the player is getting flipped. This helps prevent confusing control scenarios.
  
• Gravity flipper shader is now transparent.
  
• When reduce flashing is on, the gravity flipper animation is skipped.
  
• Item loadouts are no longer seed dependent. Both the items that spawn and where they spawn will change every time a level is loaded. This increases the difficulty of repeat attempts at a level.
  
• All entities now become invisible in total darkness to match the player's ability to become hidden to NPCs in total darkness. In this state, the entity can only be seen once it is close to the camera.
  
• Chalk eraser clouds now make all entities invisible, not just the player.
  
• Improved the appearance of chalk eraser clouds.
  
• Changed rooms to use more consistent texture types. Faculty only rooms now all have the wood panel walls for example.
  
• Reworked The Test. The Test is now more of a useful tool than a threat, but players must still be careful.
  
  
  
  • Looking at The Test will cause time around the player to dramatically slow instead of stop entirely.
    
  • Looking away from The Test will cause it to teleport to a random hallway cell in the level instead of chasing the player.
    
  • Looking at The Test for too long will cause it to start shaking. Once it begins shaking violently it is very unstable. Look at it for much longer and it will explode!
    
  • Once The Test explodes, time around the player will speed up significantly for a little while. This means the player will still move at normal speeds, but NPCs, other entities and level objects will be sped up.
    
  • The Test will not respawn until another round is started.
    
  • Updated The Test's poster description to match its new behavior.
    
  
  
• Lockdown doors are now controlled by levers which provide an instantaneous response based on the lever's position. Up means the door will be open, and down means the door will be shut.
  
• Propagated audio managers now have a minimum distance.
  
• Missing a jump in jump rope will now make a sound Baldi hears.
  
• Mrs. Pomp no longer freezes the player and stops the environment when informing them about her class.
  
• Audio from propagated audio managers is now pitch shifted based on that object's corresponding time scale.
  

Pre-release Changes

• Adjusted level 5 map price and total items in shop.
  
• Made some relevant items more likely to spawn in factory and laboratory levels.
  
• Made it so late game locked rooms will usually contain high end items.
  
• Reduced the max item values in late game levels a little bit.
  
• Chalk clouds are now culled.
  
• Power levers are now limited in how far they can generate from the room they are powering.
  
• Changing the state of a power lever now reveals the connected room on the map and updates the appearance of the room on the map to reflect whether or not it's currently powered.
  
• Changed placeholder power lever cables with colored cables that can be followed more easily.
  
• Created a proper model for the power gauges.
  
• Restored characters rewarding YTPs.
  
• Mrs. Pomps YTP reward now varies based on how long it takes to reach her class.
  
• Losing Reflex's test no longer makes noise.
  
• Reduced the speed at which the faculty only doors close to enable more ways to pass it (Such as using a 'Nana peel).
  
• Each section of the Laboratory now contains posters that label each one with a number.
  
• Teleporter rooms now show their corresponding numbers on the map.
  
• Increased initial Student YTP value.
  
• Now when a level generation error occurs, the player's game is saved with the seed changed and they are given the option to return to the main menu. The game can then be loaded and continued.
  
• Buffed the test a little bit by increasing the amount of slow down and the time it can be looked at before exploding.
  
• The Test now has a crumbled sprite for when it explodes.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed characters who cannot open locked doors being able to navigate and pass through them.
  
• Fixed the dither screen transition being tied to the framerate, which caused extremely slow transitions on lower-end hardware.
  
• Fixed a rare level generator error where it would attempt to build a special hall formation outside the bounds of the level.
  
• Fixed Hide & Seek options not saving immediately upon being changed. This resulted in settings reverting to a previous setup in some scenarios.
  
• Added a buffer around the math machine in Room_Class_MathMachine_2 to try preventing balloons from getting stuck between it and the wall.
  
• Fixed NPCs not targeting entity safe cells when traveling through open areas with no valid exits aside from the one they used to enter.
  
• Extended the second conveyor belt in the tutorial such that it extends through the entire hallway.
  
• Fixed Rewired input mapper calibration window. It previously was not modified to work with the OS themed sprites and text was unreadable.
  
• Fixed issues with particle effects not being affected by things like lighting and fog.
  
• Mrs. Pomp will now assign a class to go to even if she cannot navigate to any at the moment she attempts to do so. After this she will wander randomly until she is able to find a path to the selected room. This prevents her from breaking in this scenario.
  
• Playtime can now only start jump rope if she can see the player.
  
• Fixed rooms not being found in their entirety when entered instead of only finding open areas.
  
• Fixed conveyor belts not being affected by the environment time scale.
  

Pre-release Fixes

• Fixed a bug caused by an outdated door position outside the bounds of the lightbulb testing room which caused swinging doors to rarely generate in an adjacent room.
  
• Fixed trap detection not working reliably due to it not counting already blocked off cells as neighbors to check path finding against.
  
• Belt constructor now blocks off belt cells in all directions during level generation. This fixes softlocks in the factory level.
  
• Fixed lockdown doors that start closed not blocking paths during level generation, resulting in softlocks in factory levels.
  
• Fixed extra doors on locked rooms changing the other room's cell room to its own room.
  
• Fixed Baldi saying "nine notebooks" instead of "seven notebooks" on level 4.
  
• Fixed room group lights not being implemented.
  
• Fixed class rooms in levels 4 and 5 not using the wall with molding texture.
  
• Fixed tutorial doors being able to be closed.
  
• Fixed tutorial doors using levers instead of buttons.
  
• Power lever cables now stop at classroom doors and connect to lever walls.
  
• Increased the size of the game lock collider so that principal's keys cannot be used on the door.
  
• Fixed the jump rope failure sound value being lower than that of doors.
  
• Blocked all the walls in the belt room so that buttons and similar level objects will not generate inside them.
  
• Fixed missing controls for lockdown door in Stealthy Challenge.
  
• Cells that are blocked by objects in the teleporter room are now marked as blocked so that objects cannot be generated or placed on those walls.
  

Changelog

Additions

• Added an interactive tutorial level. This tutorial teaches players about the game's core mechanics.
  
  
  
  • Players on files that have never been prompted before will receive a prompt to play the tutorial when clicking the play button on the main menu.
    
  • The tutorial can be accessed by clicking the new tutorial button on the mode select screen.
    
  • The tutorial features chalk boards which display the currently set inputs for game actions. These chalk boards will refresh whenever the game is un-paused to reflect any changes to controls made during the tutorial.
    
  • The tutorial includes a new placeholder music track created with Microsoft Music Producer.
    
  • Added tons of new Baldi voicelines for the tutorial.
    
  
  
• Added a dedicated Hide & Seek menu.
  
  
  
  • Play Style, challenge options and seed input have been moved to this screen.
    
  • Explorer mode has been moved to this screen. It is now a play style option.
    
  • When there is a saved game, there is now a button which will allow players to start a new game alongside the continue button. Pressing this button will prompt players to make sure they're okay with losing their current saved game before starting a new one.
    
  
  
• Added an in-game keyboard for entering new file names.
  
  
  
  • If there are no save files, players will be taken directly to this screen when starting the game.
    
  
  
• Gave Baldi a new speaking animation which automatically lip-syncs to his audio. This is used in the tutorial and when correctly completing activities.
  Added lockdown doors which cannot be closed after being opened (Currently only used in the tutorial).
  
• Added the Anim8or Community Discord to special thanks section in the credits.
  

Changes

• The new file button is now always visible on the file select screen if there is an unused slot available, instead of only being visible on Steam Deck.
  
• Certain structure builders can now be used to populate premade maps. This is used to generate lockers, water fountains and plants in the tutorial map.
  
• Tweaked Baldi's file select screen voicelines to accommodate for the changes made to file creation.
  
• The save and quit poster in the pit stop no longer mentions that players cannot save in explorer mode. That information is now shown on the play style tooltip.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed volumetric audio sources, such as that of conveyor belts and Cloudy Copter's wind, not being propagated.
  
• Fixed, for realsies this time, BSODA not properly pushing entities through conveyor belts/wind when they enter the triggers of those objects after colliding with the BSODA.
  
• Fixed a few old typos.
  

Pre-release Changelog

• Added a third class room to the final section of the tutorial to prevent it from being completed too quickly.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused all modes to use whatever challenge and playstyle settings were selected in the Hide & Seek menu.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused saved games to be erased when playing any mode, not just starting a new game.
  
• Removed the window between the first hall and the principal's office in the tutorial.
  
• Posters in the tutorial principal's office are now spread apart.
  
• Fixed a bug in the tutorial that caused Baldi to repeat instructions when placing a BSODA in the storage locker and taking it out again. Now Baldi will only repeat the instructions to spray him with the BSODA when using the quarter on the BSODA machine.
  
• Increased the prices of items in Johnny's store in the tutorial.
  
• Re-enabled the ability for Johnny to let players buy items they are 100 or fewer YTPs short of affording in the tutorial.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed buttons behind the tutorial prompt to be clicked on.
  
• Updated the copyright year to 2025.
  
• Fixed an oversight that caused level 3 to be labeled as level 2 in Steam Recorder.
  
• Fixed an bug that caused Baldi to become stuck on his praise sprite in some scenarios.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the item icons of items in slots that had previously been lost via the shrinking inventory challenge to not appear when losing and reloading.
  
• Reduced the volume of the tutorial music track.
  
• After Baldi finishes counting down, he will briefly switch to his smiling sprite before changing to the normal ruler sprite.