Bingo Betty news & patch notes

Bingo Betty 1.0.0 + Demo 7.0 Patch notes

And now the curtain will rise on the grand story of it all. Who is Bingo Betty? Why is Bingo Betty? Where is Bingo Betty? All will be answered over the course of your time playing the game as you engage with the newest mechanic, the dialogue system! Play through the same crazy game you know and love, but with a new added layer of collectible, dialogue hunting! There are over 900 conversations in this update, and a run only ever surfaces a handful of them, so the parlor is a different place every time you sit down. Only the most dedicated of Bingo players will be able to get their hands on that elusive 100% dialogue achievement so be diligent! I won't lie, I'm not the most well-versed guy when it comes to writing dialogue in particular, but tried my hardest to write a story that resonates with me and that I hope resonates with all of you! There are a lot of little stories and a lot of big mysteries, so everyone can have something to enjoy! (hopefully!)

Chatty Cathies and Talkative Toms

• Every playable character now has their own run of story beats that unfold as your Fever rises. What's in store for the retirement crew? Take them to the finish and find out!

• A single run only surfaces a few of those beats, and which ones you get depends on how deep you push. Two runs with the same senior are not the same story.

• The other side of the table talks too. Have fun getting to know each character and how they are all their own forms of obnoxious and lovable at the same time!

• Every pair of characters in the game meet somewhere, so root for your favorites to interact and you just may find it!

• Many dialogues also have their own backgrounds and visuals, to give you a brief break from the action.

• Don't Care, didnt ask? Skip it! Dialogue storybooks will only be shown to you once if unseen, and will always be re-viewable later! (more info down below!)

New Music Tracks

• To accompany some of the dialogue scenes, a few new music tracks have been added to the game! I went a little simple for these tracks, because I wanted to pay homage to some of the games that inspired me to make games in the first place!

• There are 8 new songs to listen to, with some being different renditions of existing motifs, but for the most part are new compositions!

A facelift (literally) and emotion!

• All playable characters have been given updated artwork for their portraits, and have also received 5 new emotional variants that are used throughout the game.

• Your character will now react to your gameplay by smiling, and becoming excited for when you hit those big chains!

• Fever stars now count your first win as well, so the row reflects the whole climb instead of starting at Fever 1.

• There is also a super secret unlockable cosmetic for single player that is universal for all characters once unlocked! I wonder who will be the first to find it?

Storybook Library

• Did you miss a joke that you want to read again? did you miss an interaction because of a hasty click? Fret not! For all dialogues once viewed can be re-viewed from the storybook library tab in the collection

• Conversations you haven't seen are listed as locked rows with a hint about how to reach them, so you can tell what's left without being told what it is.

• Scenes that carry their own music track are marked with a small note icon, so you can find the ones worth having the volume up for.

• Four new achievements for seeing 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% of the conversations in the game. They're measured against the whole collection, and they count what you've already seen, so an existing save gets credit for it.

The Tutorial Is a Practice Game Now

• The tutorial run is a throwaway. It doesn't save, it doesn't count toward your stats, and it can't earn achievements, so you can poke at it without it becoming your Betty file.

• No story beats fire during it either. One wall of text at a time.

• It ends back at the title screen instead of dropping you into the shop halfway through a run you didn't choose to start.

• It also no longer grabs you on the way into a run. You may now actually chose whether or not you want to view the tutorial!

Bugfixes / Polish / Small Changes

• Fixed a freeze where a boss could hang partway through their turn and lock you out of the game for good. The turn recovers itself now instead of sitting there.

• Fixed splash blotters paying into the chain pot twice. They were worth double what the pot said they were, which is exactly the kind of quiet inflation the pot rework was supposed to end. Splash values are honest now.

• Fixed the Bingo Boomerang doing absolutely nothing. It was supposed to carry balls from completed Sets onto your next card, and the game was never marking which balls were in a Set, so it had nothing to carry. It works now.

• Fixed a losing run counting its final chain twice, so the game-over screen and the score counter disagreed about how you actually did.

• Fixed thirteen sound effects that were supposed to play, including the blackout impact and several ball and menu sounds.

Closing Words + A thank you

This update stayed quiet on purpose. I wanted the first you heard of the talking update to be the hall talking to you. Now that it's out: more hall, more mouths, and more reasons to gamble away that social security. If a scene lands for you, I want to see the screenshot. And as always, if you hit a softlock or something looks broken, send me as much detail as you can.

Also, i just want to take a moment to seriously say, thank you everyone who has been wishlisting, playing the demo, listening to me rant about mechanics and bugfixes, etc. Without each and every one of you i could never have made it this far. Seriously, this game isn't for me. Its for all of you! All I have ever wanted was to make games that people love, so even if I provided you with 10 seconds of enjoyment, I consider that a job well done!

This certainly won't be the end for Bingo Betty, As I have quite a few plans. First I'm going to keep a big glowing electric eye on any bugs, issues, awkward text moments, and anything else that gives people grief so I can fix it! There's bound to be bugs-o-plenty with this new system addition (among other things). I can only test for so many situations from my end, so it really helps to have people telling me what I missed! Once I feel like 1.0.x is stable enough, Be on the lookout for a loose roadmap of some of the content updates that I plan to support the game with post-launch! I Have a small post going out on launch day as well to cover some of the future items I have ideas for, but for now just have fun with what's in store for you right now!

Until then, get to hunting those storybooks and make your grandma proud!

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Bingo Betty 0.8.0 + Demo 6.0 Patch notes

There's a visual polish pass, an item overhaul where every single item shapes your ball pool, a fresh scoring pot that makes big chains legible as well as more valuable, some quality of life improvements, and a flying saucer that steals your balls (it's a good thing, trust me). Let's get into it.

The Item Overhaul: No Item Is a Boring Item

• Every passive item in the game now augments your ball pool. Buy a musical item and your specials lean toward Shuffles and Party balls; stack medical items and here come the slimes and meatballs. Over 350 items got a pool component matched to their flavor.

• Added a preview to show special ball odds for each character to both the character select screen and the gameplay. Hover your portrait mid-run and the new spread radar shows your innate odds as a ghost with your item-modified odds filled in on top. Now you can see where your specials are coming from!

• Items can now carry multiple effects: an upside and a downside, a weight bias plus a wacky bonus. Nearly 30 items got reworked with cross-mechanic second effects: haunted balls that drop Springs, bombs that knock Springs loose, slimes that trail Ectoplasm, gold balls that attract UFOs. Chains you couldn't build before are now build-arounds.

• Blocker items got restructured: a strong buff up front, a hard block as the cost (your slimes score big, but no more whoopies). Selling the item lifts the block.

• Economy items (money grants and discounts) are now limited-use consumables. Shop resets are the bottleneck on your power curve, not infinite discount stacking. Uses show right on the item.

• Every item description got a readability rewrite. No more staring at a weight number wondering what it does to your run (hopefully).

The Chain Pot: Big Chains You Can Actually Read

• Scoring got a full rework. Instead of every line quietly paying out on its own with its own multipliers, a chain now drops its points into one visible POT under the score counter, and every celebration along the way (bingos, sets, double-blotters, blackouts) stamps a "+Nx" onto one running multiplier.

• When the chain ends, the pot pays out all at once: pot × multiplier, one clean number. You can finally watch a monster chain build and know exactly what it's worth before it lands.

• Under the hood this also killed an old bug where line points were secretly being counted several times over. Scores are honest now, so a few things were rebalanced around the real numbers.

Stat Spreads: Know Your Odds

• Each character now has a signature special-ball DISTRIBUTION: a primary special type they roll often, a secondary lean, and a couple of blind spots. Betty fishes different waters than Hank. The special pie stays the same size; the slices just move.

• The spread shows as a radar diagram on the character-select carousel and on your portrait hover mid-run, with a base-type odds strip beneath it.

Multi-Blotter: That's Spamtastic!

• You are now allowed to apply multiple blotters at the store, provided you have the cash to pay for them.

• Blotters now spawn with more ink for every stage you have delved into during a run

New Flair: The UFO

• Place a ball on a UFO flair and the saucer ABDUCTS it: the ball never lands. It hovers visibly above the board, waits for your NEXT card, and delivers itself there, special effects and all. Bombs, lines, and carried blotters fire on arrival.

• This is carryover fuel: abducted balls are how a blackout chain keeps rolling onto the next card. Double+ blackouts are now more feasible.

• One reworked item now seeds UFOs from gold placements ("the hat was right, they're here"), and the new Bingo Boomerang carries balls from completed sets to your next card the same way.

Flair Tweaks

• Confetti flairs pay out bigger now. A full board of confetti is real points, not just sparkle. They will also help combat those nasty FEVER mode negative balls

• Singularity flairs got a buff too, so they never come alone again.

• Spring flairs got a visual polish pass to more clearly display that they are adding score to the ball as they bounce

The Glossary: Every Rule in One Place

• There's a full in-game Glossary now. Balls, spaces, blotters, flairs, sins, scoring, tips: every system in the game is written up, so you're never guessing what a space does mid-run.

• Open it from the pause menu and flip through the category pages to look up anything on the fly.

Menus & Screens Got a Pass

• The Collection screen got a slight touch up in the form of sorting, so browsing everything you've unlocked is more pleasant now.

• Character portraits now show your Fever-level progress as stars, so you can see how far you've pushed each senior at a glance.

• The end-of-run results screen got an overhaul: better looking and more informative, so a finished run tells you how it went.

• Scene changes now wipe across the screen in a cascade of bingo balls instead of a hard cut.

• The title screen is alive now: ambient balls arc across the menu

• Several new backgrounds configurations have been added to the game, and they now scale in intensity and theme to fit the different stages of the game

Balance

• Shop blotter offers raised to 3-6 per visit (was 1-5), and the blotter pool is now weighted so splash and auto-draw blotters (the chain engines) actually show up.

• Blotter items that grant additional blotter uses now actually grant you free blotter uses when you purchase blotters from the shop

• Flat score items now scale with the round goal (sub-linearly), so your +50 trinket from stage 1 still matters at stage 6 without outpacing your line/blackout engine.

• Score values were re-tuned around the new honest Chain Pot math (see above), since the old scoring was quietly inflating line payouts.

• The shop will now allow you to pay an exorbitant fee to reroll it if you run out of your own rerolls.

Bugfixes / Polish / Small Changes

• Fixed a wedge where mashing Draw at the exact moment the round summary appeared could park the summary over the shop and lock the run.

• Fixed rounds and shops that could start with a drawn-but-empty hand, disabling the Draw button; the game now un-wedges itself at every entry point.

• Fixed a selected ball with no legal target becoming un-cancelable when selected from the hold slot. Cancel also works while hovering a space now.

• Fixed getting stuck on Cloud, Void, and Glass spaces: if your whole hand had nowhere to go on one of those, the game wasn't offering you the redraw. It does now.

• Cloud fog now means exactly one thing: a ball is hiding in there. Knock that ball loose (envy, gluttony, a movement effect) and the fog clears.

• Fixed the shop shelf showing your discounted price but charging full price at the register. The label and the till agree now.

• Fixed clearing the round goal on your literal last draw entering the boss fight with 0 HP and freezing the game.

• Fixed winning on your very last draw being read as a loss: the game was calling the run over before your final chain finished paying out. It now waits for the pot to land before it ever declares game over.

• Your drawn hand is now saved with your run. Quit and come back and you'll pick up the exact balls you had. No more re-rolling your hand on load (and no more save-scumming your draws).

• Losing a run now actually ends it. A lost run can't be resumed from the title anymore, and returning to the title fully wipes the previous run's state so nothing bleeds into your next one.

• Fixed resuming a run on a later stage loading you back into the wrong (early-stage) scenery; you get the right backdrop for your stage now.

• Fixed the card queue staying stuck off-screen when you resumed straight into the shop (or started a fresh run after quitting from the shop); it slides into place like it should.

• Fixed a crash in the boss-victory celebration (plus extra stabilization for effect-heavy builds).

• Fixed saying "No, Thanks" to the tutorial... launching the tutorial.

• Fixed the draw hotkey staying live on the title screen after a lost run.

• Fixed phantom "roaming meatball" cases where an external move (envy steal, conveyor, gravity, portal) could leave a meatball tracked at the wrong space.

• Offline practice matches against bots work again (they crashed at Start Match).

• Boss fights save and restore cleanly now: quit mid-fight and resume right where you left off.

• Fixed the boss sometimes ending its turn early during a fight.

• Steadied up the camera during boss fights so the view doesn't fight over who's in control.

• Tidied up virtue activation and the virtue button during boss fights, combat-round entry cleanup, and a pile of internal error-spam fixes that make heavy scenes noticeably smoother.

What's Next for Betty?

More polish, more chaos, and more reasons to gamble away that social security. If you hit 100% specials, I want to see the clip. And as always, if you hit a softlock or something looks broken, send me as much detail about what happened as you can; the screenshots genuinely help. Thanks for playing. P.S. Please draw me some fan art of betty or whatever else suits your fancy from the game! I would love to see what your guys interpretations of the retirement crew would entail! ~Eli

Bingo Betty 0.7.2 + Demo 5.2 Patch notes

Smaller update this time, but with some big implications! Blotter balls were making chains hard to use, and some blotters were not so great. So i've added even more!

Blotter Stacking: 4x the power, 4x the fun!

• Spaces can now hold up to FOUR blotters at once, each tucked into its own corner of the space. Stacking opens up some genuinely nasty combos.

• Stacked same-direction arrows extend into a longer ray, stacked splash blotters grow their fill radius, and stacked Double blotters multiply harder. Mix and match to taste.

• Blotters now resolve in a consistent, predictable order (modifiers, then economy, then spreaders) so a stacked space always does its thing the same way.

New Blotters: Do you have your flair?

• 9 New blotters have been added to the game! Each one is a sticker that can spawn a specific flair type in your spaces every round! One will even spawn a random flair every time!

• Filling a space with a flair blotter will make that flair appear in another space at random! Get to crafting some even crazier combos!

Bugfixes / Polish / Small Changes

• Scratchers now reward money for each goal completed, as well as its final reward.

• Blotter balls can no longer over-write existing blotters on your spaces. They will still activate their effects as well as the spaces blotters.

• Defeating a boss now rewards you with a dollar for ever 2 HP you have left at the end of combat

• Various combat-round entry and transition cleanup to prevent residual state from the previous round sticking around.

• Small improvements to tutorial and controller mode stability

• A handful of other small irksome fixes that I won't bore you with — but they're in there.

What's Next for Betty?

More polish, more chaos, and more reasons to gamble away that social security. As always, if you hit a softlock or something looks broken, send me as much detail as you can! Screenshots and gameplay clips genuinely help. Thanks for playing!

Bingo Betty 0.7.1 + Demo 5.1 Patch notes

General improvements + bugfixes

• Made improvements to game performance in high-chain scenarios. I will continue to monitor and gather data on these events to try and ensure every chain is as satisfying as possible.

• Made improvements to stability of camera transitions during boss-fights, especially when moving the window, alt-tabbing, changing focus, or changing display resolution. I haven't been able to break this on my own machine yet, but as always i'm looking forward to seeing even more broken screenshots! If you happen to encounter an issue in a boss fight PLEASE try and give me as detailed of a description as possible of what you were doing/ what was happening before s=a softlock/crash

Bingo Betty Beta Version 0.7.0 + Demo Version 5.0 — The Flair Update

Singleplayer has received its biggest host of content additions yet! Forget everything you know about Bingo Betty!

Passive items and cards were VERY lacking. The overall game still felt stale even with all the flashy new balls and sins, so I've done what any responsible game developer does when they should probably be sleeping: I've added a ridiculous amount of new content, changed how half the game works, and called it a patch. What has emerged from the bingo abyss is a game with more personality, more decisions, more chaos, and more style than ever before.

TL;DR?: 250 New passive items, 168 New cards, Over 200 New achievements, And a brand new hell to delve into. Say hello to The Flair Update.

The Flair System — Your Card, But With Attitude

Spaces themselves can now wear flair — little parasitic decorations that ride on top of a space and fire when a ball is placed on it. Flair is per-space, one-at-a-time, and stacks with literally everything else on the board (special space types, sins, blotters, locks, you name it). The whole card becomes a layered explosion of triggers waiting to go off.

• Ectoplasm — +25 score per placement on that space. Stackable into chains with anything. Spaces with ectoplasm will act as if filled for scoring lines, but will still allow balls to be placed, even with a line scored!

• Spring — bounces the placed ball to a random unfilled space. Will trigger blotters before bouncing away! Items can add additional bounces!

• Blessing — grants virtue charges on placement, scrubs adjacent sins, and protects the space from new sins spawning on it.

• Singularity — pairs with another singularity. Place a ball on one, it clones to its partner. 

• Gacha Capsule — places a random ball directly into the draw cache on activation, with a chance for special balls!

• Key — locks or unlocks random spaces on placement, or converts them into other special space types!

• Balloon — pre-spawns hovering balls over unfilled spaces; they pop into the cache on chain end (or float away if the space fills first)!

• Confetti — Score some points instantly!

Flair can be spawned by items, sins-cleansing virtues, the Temperance virtue, the Holy and Jester special spaces, and a few other emergent sources. It's a new axis for build identity — there are runs that turn into a singularity loop, runs that drown in gacha capsules, runs where every line is paved with ectoplasm. Have fun figuring out which ones break the game.

Special Spaces —  Bingo’s a Battlefield...

The sin spaces from previous patches were just the appetizer. The card grid itself is now alive with special space types that change the rules of individual cells. Each one has its own visual identity so you can clock what you're dealing with at a glance, and each one interacts in interesting (read: chaotic) ways with balls, blotters, flair, and items. Many of these new spaces are Attributeless and will accept balls of any color/symbol!

• Jester — re-rolls its own attributes (and rolls a random flair on itself) every draw and at every chain end. Never the same space twice in a row.

• Holy — has a chance at spawning a Blessing flair on itself every draw and every chain end. Sins cannot spawn on holy ground.

• Conveyor (L/R/U/D) — when filled, the ball pushes one cell in the conveyor's direction every chain step, carrying its flair with it. Build a row of these and watch a single placement domino across the entire card. Blotters will still activate on place, so get creative!

• Quantum — group-synced fills. Place on one, fill all others with quantum entanglement!

• Void — consumes any ball, including stone. No questions asked.

• Glass — Must be broken by scoring an adjacent line. May be filled directly with stone balls.

• Cloud — fog hides the ball after placement and re-fogs at chain end.

• Glitch — Scores Instantly with a large multiplier on single placement, but does not contribute score to lines. (Hey that's like the old version of the game!)

• Portal — duplicates its ball into a random unfilled non-portal target. Two portals plus a multi-fill flair = chaos.

• Magic — carryover behavior between rounds. Helps you get that elusive mega blackout!

Special spaces interact with items, cards, balls, virtues, sins, and each other. There is a lot of emergent chaos to discover, and I have no idea where the floor or ceiling are!

Special Balls — More Chaos Per Draw

The ball system got a few new additions to the roster. With all the new fun interactions of special spaces and flairs, I thought it necessary to come up with some fun new balls to draw and play with! These ones are very powerful! 

• Stone balls — no attributes, high flat score, immune to movement effects. The only thing that breaks Glass without scoring a line first.

• Glitch balls — re-roll the draw cache on every placement, plus a much wider number range than normal.

• Party balls — Spawns a bunch of flair on your card, but is not placed in a space

• Whoopie balls — push all 8 adjacent balls outward on placement.

• Robo balls — trigger an autoDraw on placement.

• Slime balls — split into adjacent spaces.

• Haunted balls — spit ghosts (ectoplasm flair) onto spaces that would complete lines.

Also included in this update is the ability to engineer your ball RNG with items so you can get those nice Haunted balls more often!

Many New Passive Items, Cards, and Achievements

I heard you. The item pool was thin. It was sad. It needed friends, and abilities that weren’t lame.

• Every single passive Item and Card in the game has had a direct hands-on interrogation. The result of these is that about 90% of all passive items and cards have been Entirely reworked to be more fun and varied beyond “have more score or money” or “heres a couple locked spaces”

• A massive batch of new passive items has been added — the singleplayer pool now sits at ~400 passives total, with the new entries spanning every playstyle. Special-ball chasers, flair stackers, chain extenders, economy abusers, and chaos goblins all got toys.

• The card pool roughly doubled. New cards introduce fresh blotter combinations, mixed special-space layouts, and grid sizes that push the combo pipeline in new directions.

• A huge batch of new achievements has been added across every category: per-special-ball placement, per-special-space scoring, per-flair-type consumption, per-virtue activation, per-sin trigger, per-boss defeats (all 7 demons, all 7 angels, all 14), chain depth milestones, big-chain score milestones, conveyor lifetime steps, and a long tail of "did you really just do that" cumulative goals. Veterans have fresh things to chase. New players have a roadmap.

• Every Scratcher in the game has also been touched up with new goals and new rewards to reflect all of the fancy new gameplay possibilities. Let's go gambling!

Full Controller & Keyboard Support

You can now play Bingo Betty the way your couch-gaming heart desires.

• Full controller support has been implemented for every gameplay screen, menu, shop, hoverbox, and submenu. The whole UI now obeys a unified focus router.

• Full keyboard navigation has been similarly fleshed out — every action in the game can be performed without touching your mouse if that's your thing. Number-key hotkeys for item slots, dedicated keys for hold / forget / draw / virtue / view-opponent / cycle-cards, the works.

• Input-device-aware tooltips — hotkey hints automatically switch between keyboard glyphs and gamepad button icons based on what you last used.

• A virtual keyboard appears for text fields when you're playing on gamepad only, so naming your loadouts doesn't require finding a USB keyboard at 2am.

This was a significant under-the-hood undertaking. There are a LOT of screens to cover, and there will undoubtedly be a missed corner or two — please let me know if anything feels off, especially anything that traps focus or refuses to accept a controller input.

Goal Score Refactor — The Numbers Have Been Adjusted (Again, Yes, Again)

Goal scoring has been refactored at a foundational level to make room for the sick new combo potential.

• Goal score thresholds now scale more consistently across stages, rounds, and fever levels.

• Round 2 mini-challenges and Round 3 boss goals are now derived from the base goal at fixed multipliers (2× for R2, dynamic for R3 with a 1.25× bump when combat is disabled), instead of being hand-tuned per stage.

• Early stages should feel more achievable for new players while late-stage and high-fever goals stay punishing enough to feel earned.

This refactor also paves the way for more dynamic goal-score interactions with items and special spaces going forward.

New Music and SFX — One for each stage!

The soundtrack has been expanded! Betty's run through the underground now has a fresh score to match each leg of the journey. Each one has its own unique feel, ranging from Cafe Trash to Broken Trash (my personal favorite of this batch!) The throughline  in all of my work is that it’s always garbage! But hey even racoons go digging through the cans for sustenance, and they’re so cute!

Six new stage music tracks have been added — one per stage from Stage 2 through Stage 7! I look forward to hearing which ones are your favorites, they were a lot of fun to make!

A pile of small audio events that previously fired silently now actually make noise — sin spawns and triggers, flair activations, virtue charging, several special-space interactions. The whole game feels more reactive without any new SFX assets being added (existing sounds were reused intelligently — your ears can thank the design pass).

Visual Polish — Betty's Got Her Best Dress On

Every ball-moving effect in the game — conveyor pushes, spring bounces, portal teleports, envy steals, gravity pulls, slime splits, balloon pops, singularity clones, meatball wanders — now animates through one universal movement system. No more pop-in/pop-out. Balls actually FLY between spaces, with type-appropriate motion (low arcs for steals, tall arcs with ground shadows for spring bounces, slide for conveyors, morph-squish for slime splits). Chained movement (spring → spring → spring) sequences cleanly and speeds up with chain depth so timing stays in lockstep with the scoring tally.

Every playable character now has their own signature ball-place flourish. Betty gets a flower bloom. Hank gets a motorcycle. Linda gets a needle. Etc, for all 7 characters. Lou, being Lou, randomly mimics one of the others on every placement. These play on top of the existing ball-place pop and last the exact same duration, so they layer beautifully on top of chain explosions without slowing anything down. The bosses get their own placement effects too, for when the opponent is the one placing balls during combat.

Bugfixes / Polish / Small Changes

• Fixed the tutorial being impossible to complete on the virtue step

• Fixed virtues being unable to be activated during boss fights

• Fixed several bugs in the save/load system that caused it to read and write way too many times and caused instability.

• Fixed several bugs related to newly added achievements not properly triggering their corresponding collection unlocks.

• Improved performance issues related to many particle effects spawning and not being properly let go from memory

• Fixed cases where loaded save files were not accurately reflecting all earned unlocks.

• Fixed a number of edge cases in Steam achievement sync logic.

• Fixed combat round entry occasionally soft-locking from residual data from the previous round that survived the transition.

• Fixed phantom "roaming meatball" behavior when an external effect (envy steal, conveyor, gravity, portal) moved a meatball.

• Fixed various item description typos and tooltip inaccuracies

• A bunch of other small irksome fixes that I probably don't remember exactly, but I know that they're in there!

There will very likely be a whole new crop of entirely fresh bugs in this patch. I know, I know — a massive content update and it's not perfect — but there are things I simply cannot obsessively stress-test by myself, so I'm counting on YOU, the players, to break the game wide open and let me know exactly what I need to laboriously pore over. 

What's Next for Betty?

Do YOU have what it takes to help Betty become the next top bingo mogul? Do YOU want to help shape the future of the game's development? Do YOU have feedback, bug reports, hot takes, cool clips, or fan art you'd like to share with the other retirees down at the community?

Join the Bingo Betty Discord and sound off! I'll be watching closely and taking notes — if you find something broken, weird, or beautifully exploitable, I want to hear about it. This update is a big one (i guess they all are haha), and your feedback on all of this new content is genuinely invaluable.

Till next time, Eli

Singleplayer gameplay has received ( yet another) massive overhaul! The spam is on!

I hope many of you didn’t think i was leaving single player in the dust, I very much intend to expand upon and improve the gameplay of the singleplayer mode. Draw, Place, Draw, Place, etc. got old really fast. So I’ve decided to entirely change the game and throw it on its head. What has resulted is a much more smooth-flowing and rapid-fire experience. This has manifested in many ways:

• Stages are now 3 rounds long instead of 4. Each stage will now consist of a regular, challenge, and then boss round. Even on fever 0 you will have to fend off your bingo demons. Tough break, I know. This reduces the overall stage count of a run to 21. This makes runs still have enough time to allow you to develop cool combos, but not so long you need to binge watch a sitcom on your second monitor to get through.

• Draws are no longer a run-long bank. Instead you will be given a starting amount of draws (10)  that will refill every round. Old rules still apply for losing here: Run out of draws, you lose, but now you get an equal shot every round (provided you’ve spent your money wisely).

• You will no longer be placing one ball per draw. Instead, you will have to place all of the balls remaining in the draw cache before drawing more.

• The refill draws button in the shop  is now the Upgrade Draws button, which will upgrade your starting draws every round once per stage (though it’ll cost you a pretty penny)

• Goals are now much harder (again) and will ramp up more drastically between stages and rounds.

Other gameplay additions/ changes to singleplayer

• Betty and James have swapped virtues. 

  • Betty will now start with Humility (Change all drawn balls to specials)

  • James will now start with Diligence. (Trigger immediate card-swap without taking up a card use)

• Any Item which allowed accumulated stacking of money bonuses and rerolls have been granted a soft cap as to not break the economy. I will be on the lookout for more economy-breaking strats. 

• Auto-Select mode has been added to the settings. When Auto-Select mode is enabled, the game will automatically select balls in your draw queue (if you have any) for you to place after placing one. This allows for rapid-fire placement of your whole queue!

• Envy, Wrath, and Gluttony spaces are now twice as rare as the other sin space types. These sins are very strong and can be run-enders when encountered together in great numbers. They should still feel challenging but not over-bearingly disappointing to see on your card. I will still keep an eye out for any particularly odious situations created by sin spaces.

• Scoring multiple lines in a chain will grant diminishing returns on money earned. The first 3 lines will still earn a dollar each, but after that only the 5th, 8th, 11th, and so on’s lines will be scored, following a “loose fibonacci sequence”.

Other Game-Wide Changes / Additions

• Added a little preview ball by your cursor when a ball is selected to show you what is in your hand. This also works in Multiplayer.

• The tutorial has been updated with new gameplay information, condensed and revised to flow more naturally and have less redundant information. It is half or less as long now. It also naturally guides the player towards using the virtue and hold slot to show how they are used.

Bugfixes / polish / small changes

• Fixed many bugs revolving multiplayer pacing, mainly revolving around blackouts and game-ending damage not showing animations before cutting to the results screen

• Fixed some bugs revolving around loading opponent stats and certain opponent cosmetic choices online

• Polished up and fixed a few visual glitches surrounding the free blotter menu to make it flow a little more naturally and be less back-and-forth. (the shop no longer briefly appears and disappears before the free blotter menu is shown)

• Small visual changes have been made to angel/demon space sprites to fix a few visual inconsistencies.

• A bunch of other small irksome fixes that I probably don’t remember exactly, but I know that they’re in there!

There are always yet more bugs to be found! If you happen to find any let me know by posting in the community hub or by checking out the official Bingo Betty Discord, which has bug tracking threads to most easily keep track of pesky issues.

What’s next for Betty?

Do YOU have what it takes to help Betty become the next top bingo mogul? Do YOU want to help shape the future of the game’s development? Do YOU have a cool piece of fan art or gameplay or anything else you’d like to share with the other retirees down at the community? Join the Bingo Betty Discord and be on the ready for future events and projects! I think I may need a small army of about 50+ testers at some point to help really nail down this multiplayer thing I've got myself into... 

Till next time, Eli 

BINGO BRAWL - MULTIPLAYER OVERVIEW

Welcome to Bingo Brawl

Bingo Betty is all about random luck, and turn of the moment swings, but what about those who want a more measured experience? To that end I present Bingo Brawl! The world's first competitive turn-based bingo tcg! In this mode, your choices matter more than ever, because every ball you draw is your choice. Every card in your queue is yours to create, place your spaces how you want, and craft your optimal battlefield to unleash your bingo fury! Augment your playstyle with 152 different items to add another thought provoking layer to your build! Rush your opponents down, Control them with locks, Ramp up and hit them with a huge combo, or just spam meatballs and watch them crawl, the sky is the limit!

The Basics: How You Win

Each player starts with 100 HP. Reduce your opponent to 0. That's it. Everything else is just creative ways to get there. Score lines to reap the benefits of your placed balls. They won’t do anything just sitting there because they're lonesome so plan accordingly!

Charge: Your resource mechanics, sir

Charge is the fuel for everything you do.

• Turn 1: You have 1 max charge (or 2 if you go second)

• Each turn: Your max charge goes up by 1, and you refill to full

• Cap: 10 max charge

Every ball you place on your card costs charge equal to its power (plus a little extra for fancier types). A weak Attack ball might cost 1 charge. A devastating 9-power Attack bomb costs 9. Budget accordingly, running out of charge mid-turn means sitting there watching your opponent smile.

The Four Energy Types

Every ball in your deck has one of four energy types. When you complete a line on your card, every ball in that line fires its effect:

ATTACK - Deal damage

The bread and butter. Each Attack ball in a completed line deals damage equal to its effectiveness. Three Attack balls at power 3, 5, and 2? That's 10 damage to your opponent's face. Simple, brutal, effective.

DEFEND - Heal yourself

Each Defend ball in a line restores HP equal to its power. You can overheal up to 200 HP — double your starting health. Sometimes the best offense is not dying.

REMOVE - Disrupt your opponent

The trickiest type. Remove balls cost +1 extra charge to place, and their effect changes based on how many Remove balls are in the line compared to other types:

• Most common type? Force your opponent to discard from their hand

• Tied with another type? Knock balls off your opponent's card

• Least common? Lock spaces on their card so they can't place there

CHARGE - Ramp your resources

Also costs +1 extra to place. Like Remove, the effect depends on how many Charge balls are in the line:

• Most common? Gain temporary bonus charge (spend it or lose it)

• Tied? Draw extra balls from your deck

• Least common? Boost ALL other balls' effectiveness in the line

The Phases of a Turn

Don't let the seven phases scare you — most turns flow naturally:

Bingo Brawl - Online Multiplayer has been added to the game! 1v1s and 64-player tournaments in glorious turn-based tcg combat!

That’s right. And not just a quick little multiplayer funsies match either. Bingo Brawl is an entirely separate gameplay scheme that completely changes everything you know about bingo betty. In this mode, you can create your own deck of balls and craft a strategy that fits your personality. Loadouts have more possibilities than can be mathematically processed so let your imagination go wild! Fans of Magic: The Gathering or Yu-gi-oh! Will be right at home in this frankenstein’s portmanteau of bingo and a tcg. has the following features:

• Unique loadout build system involving creating your own cards, decks of balls, and even taking in items and virtues! Items and virtues have completely different abilities in MP as well so watch out! (Jointment in MP is a personal favorite, meatball meta RISE UP!)

• Completely new scoring system for a fresh combat system inspired by TCG’s like Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh. Create lines combining different base “energy types” to attack your opponent, heal yourself, ramp your ball advantage, and apply removal all in one shebang! Has all the archetypes you know and love like Aggro, Mill, Control, and Combo. I’m sure you all will be a lot better than I am about making builds, so I look forward to seeing what kind of shenanigans my players get into!

• XP progression system to earn more items and virtues for your loadouts as you progress through 100 levels! Not enough? Reincarnate!

• 10 Reincarnation levels that reset your XP back to 1 to unlock new challenges and give you a steeper hill for which you can continue to push your boulder up

• Separate Challenge system for unlocking cosmetics! Each cosmetic is tied to a specific challenge, so if you see someone with that elusive ‘Bingo God” title you might as well hover over that forfeit button and forget your win streak!

• Fully customizable profiles! Customizable options include:

  • Portrait Photos

  • Portrait Frames

  • Scoring Particles

  • Space Skins (these ones are for the big shots!)

  • Title Badges

  • Panel Textures (for your item and card panels)

• 2 new MP-only music tracks! A smooth lobby theme and a heart-pumping battle theme (this one is my personal favorite piece of music that I’ve ever created! I hope everyone likes it as much as I do!!)

• 2 Different gameplay modes

  • Head to Head - Play a 1v1 quick match against another player, and duke it out for bingo supremacy! Do it to test a new loadout in casual or try to reach for the top in ranked matchmaking!

  • Tournament - 32 player casual tournaments, and 64 player ranked tournaments. In this mode you may steal passive items from your opponents loadouts as you continue through the rounds! Take that guy’s special you couldn't afford and create an even wackier loadout for emergent strategies! Beware though, ranked tournaments net you much greater rank rewards for champions, but losers are not seen as fondly.

• Create custom lobbies for you and your friends!

  • Custom 1v1s or  4, 8, 16, 32, and 64 player tournaments.

  • Allows adding of bots for practice matches (or incase you all absolutely hate bingo brawl and it dies with no players LOL)

There is a separate, multiplayer overview posted Over here on this Steam announcement as well, which will go over everything you will want to know about Bingo Brawl’s rules and mechanics, or you can just  give it a shot and experiment to see what you can find out for yourself!

The Forces of Heaven and Hell have been unleashed upon Bingo Betty and her fragile friends.

A strange and ominous presence fills the bingo hall... Fever mode isn’t safe anymore...

When entering 7-4 on fever 0, or round 4 on every stage in fever 1 or higher, you will encounter a Demon, who you must best in bingo single combat to advance into the next stage of the tournament to claim your win. Your draws will be converted to HP. Your score means nothing. You can only frantically make lines as fast as possible to kill them before they kill you. Once you get into FEVER 6 and higher, things will really start to go off the rails, because even the forces of heaven don’t seem too keen on Betty breaking out of her poverty stricken retirement, and will seek to prove your mettle in combat as well! FEVER 10 has 100% chance of angels on every stage, so only the truly mighty may see it through!

So Betty’s been trapped in the REAL underground this whole time? Damn, meet crazy. But that’s not all, The Seven Deadly Sins will now manifest as obstacles in your path to bingo greatness. Every space now has a chance at spawning in with a Sin. Each sin provides a challenge to overcome that will re-shape the way you complete every round! The likeliness of getting a Sin space starts out low, but as you progress through the 10 levels of FEVER, these spaces will start to overtake your card! You’ll have to be sharp on your emergent strategy if you want to overcome these obstacles!

• Greed Spaces will take a dollar away from you every time you fill a space that isnt one of them!

• Envy Spaces will steal balls that are higher value from other spaces!

• Wrath spaces will take extra draws from you if left unfilled!

• Pride spaces will only let you place basic balls in them!

• Lust spaces make your lines that contain them score much less without a set, and make sets harder to achieve!

• Gluttony spaces will eat your balls if they aren’t in a line!

• Sloth spaces won’t activate blotter effects or special effects!

Don’t worry though, all those hard years Betty spent clutching her pearls and memorizing verses won't go to naught, as the seniors have awakened a strange new power that will shape the course of your runs!

These powers will charge over time as you score lines, but use them wisely, because they will take more and more bingo energy each time you decide to use them! Use it at the right moment to save you from certain defeat! Each character has a specific virtue that they will carry with them into the game, except for Lou, who will always have a random virtue at start.

• Diligence swaps to your next card immediately, without requiring a blackout, and won’t take up a card use when it does! (more on that later)

• Patience removes all placed balls from your active card!

• Humility changes all of your drawn balls to special/effect balls!

• Gratitude grants you +1 Draw for each passive item in the item panel!

• Chastity grants +$1 for each locked space on your  current active card!

• Temperance will grant +25 to the lowest scoring spaces’ numbers ,and  -25 to the highest scoring space’ numbers!

• Charity Sells a random passive  item or card queue card for 3x it’s sale value!

Other gameplay additions/ changes to singleplayer:

Many players were able to achieve some pretty sick nasty cheap wins by abusing lock spaces, and I couldn't be more proud. As a personal token of my thanks, I have made some very nice balance changes that will improve the overall health of the game! We hope you enjoy your eternal stay here in bingo hell! Also, there is a litany of small features added to make the overall singleplayer experience more enjoyable!

• Permalock and Permafree blotters will no longer be found in the game.

• Lock balls have been removed from the game.

• Cards now have a limited number of “Uses” before they break. This is listed on the card when they are in the queue, but it won’t tell you how close it is to breaking when it’s active, so beware!

• Added a post-game unlock summary, to show you the things you may have unlocked during your runs

• Special Balls now have special animations that play when you activate them, that is specific to each special ball type!

• Blotters now play an animation when they are applied to spaces, and when they activate their effects on a space!

• The tutorial has been updated to be harder to skip during the “play the rest of the round” section to prevent players from missing the shop tutorial

• 2 New Playable characters, James Porter and Lucky Lou! You can unlock these two by completing the game on FEVER 1 and FEVER 5 with any character.

  • Lucky Lou has FULLY RANDOM item, card, and virtue starts, providing the most chaotic experience possible!

Other Game-Wide Changes / Additions

• Added Hotkeys to make playing the game a little quicker

  • The “d” key will press the draw button. This will also work in menus!

  • 1-0 keys on the keyboard will select balls in the draw cache

  • The “h” Key will place a ball in the hold slot. This also works for multiplayer, to hold balls you can't select yet!

• Spiced up the Single player gameplay music with a fresh new version with new instruments and a much better sounding arrangement of the original track! There are also 3 entirely NEW songs you can look forward to hearing in your Single player runs as well!

• Updated a couple of the buttons in the options menu to be a little more clear on exactly what they do. “Labeled Panels” Will place a text label on your item and card panels, as well as highlight your next card. “Ball / Space tooltips” will add a hoverbox containing information about balls and spaces. These are togglable for the seasoned bingo betty enjoyers who want a little less visual clutter.

• Added many new sound effects, and changed the horrendously obnoxious shop-purchasing sound

Demo 4.0 -  Demo Content update

This new version of the Demo contains all the lovely updates you see in the rest of this monolithic patch note post, albeit in a lite form. You still are unable to earn achievements or unlock new items/characters in the demo, however I have updated the demo to allow saving and loading of your in-progress runs! Also, the available characters in the demo have been changed to Betty, Walter, and Susan. 

Demo 4.0 also includes a small taste of multiplayer for everyone who wants to give it a shot! Demo players will have access to all 5 default loadouts in the game, but not be able to earn XP, edit your loadouts, or rank up. Hopefully some are eager enough to immediately ask for those to be added into the demo, but for now you can look forward to having something to do in the full version of the game! If enough people get interested, I may reconsider and allow SOME progression in the demo, we’ll see how it plays out!

Bugfixes

• Fixed a strange bug on the demo for mac that was breaking the game entirely by having spaces showing as filled blue “15555”. To any of my Mac users I'd like to seriously and sincerely apologize for leaving it in such a state for so long, but I have taken extra care this time around to ensure that the game will run on all platforms smoothly and continues to do so going forward!

• Fixed an issue that allowed players to place blotters on cards as they were rolling out

• Fixed an issue that caused the free blotter menu to get stuck while opening and closing

• Fixed a whole bunch of other minor and annoying things around the game, like typos in various item descriptions and the tutorial. (RIP “ready fo’ put”)

There will very likely be a lot of other entirely new bugs in this patch. I know, I know, 3 months of radio silence and it’s not perfect but there are some things i just can’t obsessively test by myself, so I’m counting on YOU, the players, to break the game wide open and let me know exactly what i need to laboriously pore over to fix!

Closed Beta Opportunities?

I am looking into ways and opportunities to get the closed beta into the hands of as many more people as possible. Right now I just want to make sure that the game will actually be worth the 14.99$ that I intend to charge for the full game on release, and I work a full time job, so time is limited and it’s hard to be everywhere on the internet all at once, yet I persist!. Reach out to your favorite streamer / content creator and let them know about the game! Tell your friends! I’ve been known to hand out random keys for almost no reason so hey, maybe you’ll get a shot! Show me what you got! (Especially if you want to send me some gameplay footage! Bonus points to whoever can provide me the most footage with SFX turned on and music turned off! Hint Hint)

What’s next for Betty?

I’ll still keep my eyes out as best I can but I am only one guy and now that this update is out it's time to try and get into spamming marketing and social media mode! Hopefully I can get the word out to enough people so matchmaking lobbies aren't entirely dead! I’d like to do some sort of events in the future, art contests, build contests, content creator tournaments and events, you name it! Let me know what you all would be interested in seeing from the game!

Till next time, Eli 

A hotfix has just gone live for the main game (beta playtest) and demo, It contains the following improvements:

• Meat balls now properly trigger blotters they visit,

• Blotter meat balls now properly apply their space on visit,

• Magnet balls now properly pull lines away,

• Magnet balls, when pulling blotter balls, will make those blotter balls re-apply their effect on the space they land in,

• Blotters applied from blotter balls now properly save onto the card,

• The card queue now keeps itself in the correct positions while going from end of round -> free blotter -> shop,

• PERMALOCK and PERMAFREE have been REMOVED from the free blotter pool,

• Failsafe guards have been added for fully locked cards to prevent softlocks,

• Directional blotters now properly copy special balls

• Gold/blotter balls now have a 1/10 chance of generating, as opposed to 1/3

• Effect balls (meat, bomb, shuffle, line, gravity) now also have a 1/10 chance of generating, opposed to 1/3

Please share your feedback and experiences! If you find any bugs or want to hang out with the dev, just join the official discord!

The Gameplay / Ball Overhaul

I’m 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, I’ve 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 there’s just so much stuff cram packed in this update that I don’t even know if there are any bugs I have yet to see, but it all seems clean so far! I’ll 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 you’ve given them a fair shot! Although I don’t think any amount of OP balls are going to save you from the fury of FEVER 10...

• PLACING INDIVIDUAL BALLS NO LONGER GRANTS SCORE. To score, you must now get a bingo, passive item, or blotter effect. Don’t worry, it will be happening a lot more often.

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

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

• Gold balls grant money when placed

• Blotter balls carry a specific blotter that is applied to the space when placed. These can OVERWRITE existing blotters.

• 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 no inherent symbol or color. They do still have numbers. 

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

• Shuffle balls reroll the colors, numbers and symbols of every space/ball on the card.

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

• Line balls come in horizontal and vertical variants and place an entire line of balls.

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

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

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

Major gameplay additions

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

• 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.

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

Minor changes/additions

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

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

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, I’d 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!

What’s 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. I’d also like to look at fun ways of engineering the RNG behind your ball draws, so you can get more powerful balls consistently, but I’m not sure how that will take shape yet. As 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 couldn’t make this game, and make it better without you all! Till next time, Eli 

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. 1. 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? 2. 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? 3. 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 4. 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! 5. 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!

As always, Thanks again to everyone reading this, Eli

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. This 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! Also, 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!

Major changes/additions

• Removed the old how to play window, and added a fully scripted tutorial! 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!

• 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)

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

Gameplay/Balance Changes

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

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

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

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.

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

• An Endless Mode to continue after a winning run

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

• Other visual polish

• Balance adjustments

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. Thank you!

Major changes

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

• Changed the way symbols look to stand out more

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

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

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

• Added the ability to pause while in the shop

Gameplay/Balance Changes

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

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

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

Bugfixes

• Fixed “how to play” button having the incorrect font

Gameplay/Balance Changes

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

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

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

Bugfixes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Major Additions

• FEVER MODE 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. 

  • 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

• 86 Achievements have been added to the game. Bringing the total to 200! 

• 76 Passive items have been added to the game, all of which can drastically alter your approach to building your run by permanently altering your blotters with other blotter effects to cross pollinate them, get shopping!

Minor Additions

• All items now have proper tags and flavor text

• 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

• Added a visual effect for rewards  from completing scratchers

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

Gameplay/Balance Changes

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

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

• Starting max draws for all characters is now 50

• Draw upgrade now also 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.

• Slightly increased goal scaling per round

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

Bugfixes

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

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

Bingo Betty Version 0.1.2.a Patch Notes

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

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

  • Double -> 1

  • Splash  -> 2

  • Free Draw -> 3

  • Auto Draw -> 5

  • Bonus Cash -> 1

  • Directionals (all 4)  ->  5

  • Set Plus (both) -> 3 

  • Lock/Free -> 5

  • Mystery -> 3

Bugfixes

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

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

Major Additions

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

Minor Additions

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

Gameplay/Balance Changes

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

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

Bugfixes

• Fixed window mode not loading from options on game launch

• 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

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

• Fixed particle colorings for different UI elements

Coming soon to a retirement home near you...

• Scratcher visual updates and fixes

• Item sprite updates

• 69 More passive Items

• Item and card panel visual updates

• Manmade Bingo horrors beyond Betty’s comprehension

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

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 will break the game.  This will not be fixed or changed, as the dev console will be removed in the release versions of the game.

• Added 5 new passive items to the  game.

Gameplay/Balance Changes

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

Bugfixes

• Fixed resume button being enabled after finishing a run.

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

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

• Fixed default settings not loading properly without saved setting file

• Fixed Wins not being tracked in the collection log

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

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

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

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

• Fixed Keno Card

• Changed description of blotter bonus items to be more clear

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

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