The Gameplay / Ball Overhaul

Im not afraid to admit that the moment to moment gameplay can be tedious in 0.4. And Demo 2.0. Sure crafting a line of Arrow blotters is nice, but if it takes you 10 rounds of contemplative planning to get there what\'s the point? To address this, Ive made some rather sweeping changes to the gameplay, resulting in a much more unpredictable and chaotic experience. These things always seem stable on my end before I like to release to you all, but theres just so much stuff cram packed in this update that I dont even know if there are any bugs I have yet to see, but it all seems clean so far! Ill be looking towards gameplay from testers and demo lovers to get ideas on how to balance all of this, so please share feedback with me on these new systems after youve given them a fair shot! Although I dont think any amount of OP balls are going to save you from the fury of FEVER 10...\n

• PLACING INDIVIDUAL BALLS [u]NO LONGER GRANTS SCORE.[/u] To score, you must now get a bingo, passive item, or blotter effect. Dont worry, it will be happening a lot more often.\n

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• Balls now have various special types with special properties and strange behaviors!

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• Any ball has a 1/10 chance to be a Special ball (gold or blotter).

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• Gold balls grant money when placed

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• Blotter balls carry a specific blotter that is applied to the space when placed. These can [u]OVERWRITE[/u] existing blotters.\n\n

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• After getting a base type, the ball then has a separately rolled 1/10 chance to be an Effect Ball. All effect balls are considered Attributeless which means they may be placed in any space, but they have [u]no inherent symbol or color.[/u] They do still have numbers.

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• Wild balls count as all symbols / colors for placing and sets.\n\n

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• Shuffle balls [u]reroll the colors, numbers and symbols[/u] of every space/ball on the card.\n\n

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• Lock balls make the space temporarily locked until you either blackout that card or win the round, but[u] grant 3 money[/u] when placed.\n\n

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• Line balls come in horizontal and vertical variants and place an [u]entire line of balls.\n\n[/u]

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• Bomb balls place 4 random balls around the bomb in a plus shaped pattern. Blotter bombs will [u]also apply their blotter effect to the affected spaces[/u].\n\n

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• Meat balls move to an adjacent space when you draw balls. They will stop moving if scored in a line. Gold meatballs will [u]grant a dollar with every move[/u], and blotter meat balls will[u] reapply their blotter to every space they visit[/u]. \n\n

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• Magnet balls push/pull all of the balls on the card in the direction specified by the magnet.\n\n

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Major gameplay additions

• Added a Ball Hold slot, which allows you to save a ball between draws and rounds.

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• Added the ability to Forget Balls by pressing the F key while hovering over them in the draw cache or ball hold slot. Forgetting a ball will reroll its attributes, with a chance at generating it as a special/effect blotter. Forgetting costs $1 the first time, increasing on a curve with every forget used in a round.

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• Added a free blotter selection menu, which will grant a free blotter when you enter the shop after completing every round. Thats 26 free blotters just from consolation prizes alone!

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Minor changes/additions

• Changed the border on filled spaces to stand out even more.

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• Added a dedication screen to the games startup sequence to pay homage to the elders throughout my life that inspired me to make this game

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Steam Next Fest + 3.0 Demo Update

Bingo Betty was recently accepted as a participant in this upcoming Next Fest in late February! To commemorate all of my new (hopefully) fans, Id like to expand a bit on the content offered in the demo, while simultaneously bringing all of these sweet juicy gameplay updates to it as well! The 3.0 update of the demo brings all of the updates seen above as well as unlocking an additional character besides Betty to play as! Update and play with your shiny new gold meat balls now!

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Whats next for Betty?

I will continue to lurk around and stalk everyone playing this game on the internet (JK, or am I?) for feedback, bugs, and suggestions. If you want to stay on top of all my worst memes and dev posts, be sure to join the official discord! The next update will focus on polishing up those sweet new balls and fixing any (hopefully not a lot) of bugs from these new gameplay enhancements. I\'d like to do some cool animated effects and fancy sound effects for some of the more exciting balls, but it may take me some time to really hone those in how I\'m envisioning them. Id also like to look at fun ways of engineering the RNG behind your ball draws, so you can get more powerful balls consistently, but Im not sure how that will take shape yet.\n\nAs always, Thank you to each and every one of you reading this, playing the game, interested in the game, watching the game, or even to anyone who has written hateful paragraphs-long comments about how terrible the gameplay is. I couldnt make this game, and make it better without you all!\n\nTill next time,\nEli

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A Shoutout + Thanks

Hey there everyone, First i\'d like to give a huge thanks to Vinesauce for streaming my game, what an absolutely unreal experience! To any of you who have found my game recently, thank you for taking the time to look at my game and (hopefully) play the demo!

BIG Gameplay Updates are in the oven

I\'d like to announce that I am still plugging away behind the scenes to make this game one for the scrapbook! Right now I think I\'d like to address some of the BIG gameplay changes coming to bingo betty in the near future.\n\n1. I will be adding a feature that will allow you to \"Hold\" a ball between draws and rounds. This will still consume a draw, but now you can hold on to that sweet bomb ball for later. Wait, what\'s a bomb ball?\n\n2. I will be adding a feature that will allow you to \"Forget\" a ball for a cost. This will allow you to reroll that terrible 2 red triangle into something more juicy like a... meat? ball, huh?\n\n3. I will be adding a feature that will reward a free blotter of your choice after every round! Now you can tell that pesky shopkeeper what for and save your cash for that sweet superscooter you\'ve been wanting\n\n4. I will be adding SPECIAL BALLS which will have various properties. Be ready for things like the \"shuffle ball\" which randomizes your whole card, or the \"bomb ball\" which places random balls in a Plus pattern, and many more! These exciting new balls will be able to appear any time you draw a ball, so you never know what wacky ball you\'ll get next!\n \n5. I will be REMOVING score from placing balls individually. No more eking out a win with a quick 100 drop. To compensate, bingos will be granted additional score multipliers ON TOP of the set bonus. Juice those mega bingos for an even FATTER multiplier!

Official Discord Server now open!

Finally, I would like to announce that I have opened a community server for the game. You can find it by clicking the discord button above, on the steam page, on playbingobetty.com, or by clicking This link . I hope to see you around the bingo hall telling me how broken and terrible this game is, so i can make it NOT broken and terrible!

\n\nAs always, Thanks again to everyone reading this,\nEli

A note from the dev

Hello everyone, I hope you\'re ready for an exciting new year! As a thanks for all of my players (and potential players) I have a brand new update hot out of betty\'s oven for you, and this one won\'t need to cool on the windowsill! Still, feel free to float on over to it.\n\nThis update focuses on some much needed QoL adjustments, such as speeding up animations and adding an ACTUAL tutorial! That\'s right, the big, ugly, bulky, How to Play menu is gone! Rest in pieces!\n\nAlso, Big updates have come to the demo! Many of the QoL changes enjoyed over the past few patches of the main game have been ported into the demo, including the tutorial, and additional options!

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• Removed the old how to play window, and added a [u]fully scripted tutorial! [/u]This takes you through a round and into the shop, and explains everything you need to know to flush your fixed income straight down the toilet!

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• Added an Auto Draw setting, which automatically draws balls after you place them! No more tedious trips to the draw button! (unless you want it that way)

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• Added an Animation Speed setting, which speeds up certain gameplay animations to make runs take less time!

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Gameplay/Balance Changes

• You may no longer sell the last card in your card queue

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• Changed the how to play button into a button that lets you re-play the tutorial. This is only available from the title screens options menu.

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• Bugfixes to the money system have caused the game to have a more balanced economy, buyers beware!

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Bugfixes

• Fixed multiple bugs that resulted in players being granted too much money for simple actions. Money from matches is only meant to be granted on place, not every score.

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Bingo Betty has seen you playing

Hey there, I am the developer of Bingo Betty. I have been hard at work behind the scenes getting the full game primed and ready for a full release! There are still a few little features and things I would like to add to the game, such as:

• Controller Support

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• An Endless Mode to continue after a winning run

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• A Guided Tutorial instead of the \"How to Play\" guide

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• Other visual polish

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• Balance adjustments

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Needless to say, It will still take me some time to work those features in, and with the game in a (somewhat) working state currently, I would like to divert my attention to the demo. It\'s no secret that the demo has more than a few basketball-sized blemishes, and so everyone at the retirement community can rest easy knowing that the demo will be getting some love.\n\nThank you!\n

Major changes

• Changed the way spaces look when filled and unfilled to make it a more clear distinction

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• Changed the way symbols look to stand out more

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• Added Colorblind Mode, Which adds labels showing the color and symbol of any ball or space hovered

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• Added Labeled Mode, Which adds labels for your item and card panels, including a handy arrow and an indicator for your next card!

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• Added Still Background Mode, which makes the backgrounds non-animated for improved visual clarity.

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• Added the ability to pause while in the shop

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Gameplay/Balance Changes

• Added a label to item info panels that shows their sell value

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• Added visual indication when trying to purchase items/cards while full

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• Adjusted goal calculation curve over fever levels 1-10 to be less punishing but still (hopefully) hard

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Bugfixes

• Fixed how to play button having the incorrect font

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Gameplay/Balance Changes

• Added a label to item info panels that shows their sell value

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• Added visual indication of when trying to purchase items/cards while full

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• Changed goal calculation curve to increase difficulty on higher fever levels

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Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that caused saves to corrupt when closing the game through external methods

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• Fixed an issue that caused loading saves to place you in the incorrect round

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• Fixed an issue that prevented saving and quitting at the shop screen

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• Fixed Item descriptions not properly representing their bonuses for items that scale

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• Items which grant bonus blotter uses now immediately reflect their change in the shop

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Get ready bingo biddies, this update turns up the heat!

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Major Additions

• [u]FEVER MODE[/u] Has been added to the game. You may select your level of FEVER mode when selecting a character to start a run. There are 10 levels of fever mode to unlock, each with a new unique layer of challenge, less starting draws, and harder goal scores. When winning the game on FEVER mode, you will unlock the next level of FEVER mode for that character.

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• Note: if you have already won as any characters on a save from a previous version, you may have to win a run as those character again on this new version to unlock fever mode

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Minor Additions

• All items now have proper tags and flavor text

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• You can now sell passive items and cards for half of their cost by right clicking them. Cards sell for $5 + $1 for each blotter applied

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• Added a visual effect for rewards from completing scratchers

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• Added a visual border to depict item rarity for passive items and cards

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Gameplay/Balance Changes

• You are now limited to 21 Passive Items and 6 cards in your queue

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• There is now a slight delay between being able to enter and exit the shop to prevent layout conflicts.

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• Starting max draws for all characters is now 50

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• Draw upgrade now [u]also[/u] upgrades your max draws by 5, and now refills your draws when purchase. The display now shows the draw pool upgrade instead of balls drawn.

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• Slightly increased goal scaling per round

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• Only 1 blotter of a given type may now appear on the Shop shelf at one time. Get creative!

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Bugfixes

• Fixed gameplay screen lingering into shop when spamming the interaction button

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• Fixed some items effects persisting from saving/quitting into new run

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Bingo Betty Version 0.1.2.a Patch Notes

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Gameplay/Balance Changes

• Changed the cost of all passive items to be more uniform based on rarity.Common items are now 20, rares 35, and specials remain 50

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• Adjusted costs of all blotters, reduction across the board.

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• Double -> 1

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• Splash -> 2

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• Free Draw -> 3

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• Auto Draw -> 5

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• Bonus Cash -> 1

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• Directionals (all 4) -> 5

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• Set Plus (both) -> 3

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• Lock/Free -> 5

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• Mystery -> 3

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Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that caused items which grant extra shop rerolls to stack exponentially

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• Fixed an issue that caused the game to crash when playing as hank or linda

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Major Additions

• Added 1 New item as a teaser for what\'s to come.

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Minor Additions

• Added scratcher related commands to dev console for testing scratcher related bugs

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Gameplay/Balance Changes

• Buffed Hank: Increased max draws to 30, changed starting card to 5x5 Basic.

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• Slightly Nerfed Linda: Changed Lindas Starting card to 7x7 Basic.

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Bugfixes

• Fixed window mode not loading from options on game launch

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• Fixed MANY Issues with various achievements, such as win with Linda, win with x or more cards and win with x or less items and more

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• Increased performance, fixed some fps issues of high-scoring chains and particles

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• Fixed particle colorings for different UI elements

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Coming soon to a retirement home near you...

• Scratcher visual updates and fixes

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• Item sprite updates

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• 69 More passive Items

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• Item and card panel visual updates

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• Manmade Bingo horrors beyond Bettys comprehension\n\n

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Hello everyone! Thank you for supporting and playing Bingo Betty! Over this past week I\'ve been collecting some reports of a few bugs, but worry not because the first patch is here! I hope it makes your testing/playing sessions better!

Bingo Betty Version 0.1.1 Patch Notes

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Major Additions

• Added a Debug console with various commands for testing purposes. You may access this console by pressing the ~ Key during gameplay. Beware that using the console outside of a run is not intended, and [u]will break the game[/u]. This will not be fixed or changed, as the dev console will be removed in the release versions of the game.

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• Added 5 new passive items to the game.

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Gameplay/Balance Changes

• + Increased Starting Shop rerolls per stage from 1 to 2

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Bugfixes

• Fixed resume button being enabled after finishing a run.

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• Added failsafe run save before all game quits, should fix Alt+F4 Not saving runs/Deleting saves

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• Fixed font on certain buttons not being in line with game UI

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• Fixed default settings not loading properly without saved setting file

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• Fixed Wins not being tracked in the collection log

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• Fixed an issue where canceling and placing was happening at the same time, moved canceling a ball placement to right click

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• Fixed an issue that caused the blotter menu to break when exiting. ESC no longer exits the blotter menu, it is now Right Click.

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• Fixed multiple issues that caused all discount items to not work or show their effects in the shop.

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• Implemented various fixes for various issues caused by alt-tabbing on windows

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• Fixed Keno Card

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• Changed description of blotter bonus items to be more clear

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• Various small visual tweaks and fixes for typos and incorrect fonts

  \nWant your gameplay to be featured on the steam page?

  Send your screenshots and epic chain gameplay videos to eliasaustingames@gmail.com\n\n\n

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