Tiny Bakery news & patch notes

Hi! We’re back with a big update <3 We added an icecream machine and 4 ice cream recipes you unlock at the summer festival and many bug fixes and small features.

New Features

• Reworked counter system: Free placement and rotation, upgrades, etc.

• New translations: Simpflified Chinese, Korean, Brazilian Portugese, Spanish, Filipino, Russian, Ukranian

• New Recipe: Ice Cream (Chocolate, strawberry, lemon, and vanilla) + the Ice Cream Machine to make it

• New Festival: Color Festival

• The Counter is now more customizable (you can freely place and even add candles and such)

• New Furniture, Decoration and Storage

• The first counter size upgrade is now available

• Slime accessories based on season and festival

• You can now name your bakery

• Anti-Virus warnings should all be gone

• Small storage box for tea bags

Changes

• The cookie jar can now also hold brownies

• Cheesecake can now also go on the etagere

Fixes

• The Demo save and full-release save are now properly seperated

• Slimes are now hidden in the counter view, so they can't block the view

• Incorrect cursor and some cursor jitter fixed

• OBS shouldnt flicker anymore when recording

Visual Improvements

• Started replacing the rendered shop icons with hand painted ones

• Improved shadow visuals and fixed floating shadow look

• Some changes to the UI to make it look and feel better, this includes the settings and a new language selector, as well a nicer build mode

Other

• Performance improvements

Modding

With this update, we've shifted more and more content towards the moddable data format we developed. While the modding tool, in-game mod manager, and steam workshop are not ready yet, and we are still changing the data quite a lot, this is showing more and more that modders will have a wide veriaty of options to add content or modify the existing game.

Breaking Changes

• Curtains might be rotated incorecctly and must be moved slightly in edit mode to re-align them

We’ve been working on many different parts of the game and are wrapping all our construction sites up bit by bit. We will bring out a lot of content the next few weeks :D

Hey everyone, we forgot to post notes for the last update: We’re finally healthy again and the update should address most issues that came up through the feedback tool and the discord. Changes:

• New Recipe: Lemonade

• New Recipe: Black Tea

• A new Slime

• Fixed summer skipping in some special circumstances

• Slime seasonal wear: Some slimes should now put on some different seasonal wear in summer and winter, we’ll expand on that feature in the future

• Added a Letterbox: No longer will you get jumpscared by a letter, instead, you hear a sound and the letterbox gets a little indicator. On click, you can see your new letter.

• New setting: Toggle between Hardware/Software cursor

• When hovering a storage, like the flour box, you can now see how many items are inside, and how many would fit in total

• Propper translation for item tooltips

Improved graphics when using upscaling: Using lower rendering scales should now look better, while improving performence on lower end devices.

• More accurate visuals: The cookingpoit, jug, mug, glass, mixingbowl, and mixture all use a new system now that should allow most combinations inside to have their own visual

• Further work on stability

• Some small seasonal decoration during summer outside your bakery. This will later be more common and customizable in combination with another planed feature

More fixes:

• The counter should now stop complaining for no reason

• Items now should not go inside cabinets when the door is closed

• When rotating an item in build mode, you no longer zoom in/out

• Eggscartons no longer make the mixingbowl jump

• Fixed a time zone based issue in the main menu, when the system got confused when trying to match the sun position to the players device time

• The hotkey info now actually uses rebound keys from the settings

Known Issues:

• When using the new Hardware Cursor, there might be some temporary incorrect cursors for up to half a second after a scene load

We hope this resolved most of your issues and you enjoy the update. We'll be back on Saturday, working on some new changes coming up This includes more slime colours and designs, the rework of the counter, and lots of other stuff we'll tell you about soon.

~Janis & Marie

Hi! Last night we uploaded a new update, here is what it entails:

• Many visual fixes (we overhauled the system for displaying all ingredients in all recipe steps so that they are more accurate and the trash visual should only appear when it’s actually trash)

• Also we did some other changes in the backend to try to fix crashes that still sometimes occurred when opening the game, since the update we received no new crash reports, so we think it might have resolved the issues

• Cookies not being sellable should be fixed

If you’re still experiencing issues please let us know, the new crash reporter also has helped us a lot already, thank you to everyone sending us infos <3

Hey everyone!

Since yesterday, we recieved some reports using the newly added crash reporter regarding crashes.

We found a new issue regarding the intro cut scene, which could have caused them on devices where a certain windows feature was not present.

Hopefully it helps, if not please let us know <3

Best wishes,

Marie & Janis

Hellooo, we just uploaded the new build! :D here is what's new:

• implemented the cheesecake recipe

• Cloud Saving✨

• Chocolate Storage

• Seasonal texts are now translated

• new setting to change the brightness of the game for diffrent eye needs

• mugs no longer get stolen when you send a slime away that wanted multiple things

• made the cream model look like the icon

• etagere is now buyable as placable furniture item for placing cupcakes, cake slices and mugs around your bakery,

• there is now a little message popping up when counter is full

• implemented a tutorial for when letting something fall behind something on how to get it with ctrl

• added a crash reporter that helps us determine reasons for a crash and send immediate feedback to us

• Lots more performance improvements and work on stability and compatability

• added “Item Return Zones”, which, if entered, teleports items back to the bakery. This should reduce lost items.

And a little question to you, do you prefer it if a cake makes 4, 6 or 8 slices of cake? Currently the cheescake becomes 4 ginourmous slices when seperated, but we thought a little smaller slices could look cuter. This update should hopefully fix the crashes some of you were experiencing, and if not the crash reporter should help us get to the bottom of them. Thank you so much for all the help <3 ~Janis & Marie

Heyyy! We just uploaded another Update, here's what changed:

• We added "portioned items". Milk and eggs now can be used multiple times: A milk bottle contains 3 portions of milk, and the egg carton contains 4 eggs. These can be used in the exact same way the old items could, but help staying organized, and allow us to later have recipes with more then one egg/milk.

• We also added "Audio Cues". These add a small notifications in the top left, when things are conveyed mostly through sound (currently supports completion of mixer and stove), to make the game nicer for people with limited hearing. This can be enabled with "Settings/General/Show audio cues on screen"

• We worked on improving performance

• Made items stick to furniture when moving them in build mode

• We improved the slimes animations, fixing small bugs and making the jumping look nicer

• We added a scrolling sensitivity slider, and a scroll speed slider. The first is the change "per scroll", the other is the speed the camera moves towards the targeted zoom. This way you can make it slow and smooth, or fast and snappy, or any combination between.

• We also added a rolled up package for carpets and flags

• We made some small adjustments to the shop UI, and also added translations to the items in the shop

• Fixed a bug where even when pausing time, letters with special orders would still arrive

• We also now made the big table purchasable

• The paused time effect is now less intrusive, because it's sometimes used for long periods

• When making hot chocolate or hot milk with honey, you now make 2 portions at once, which, looking at the size of the pot, feels a bit more natural

• Ohh, and maybe this was already in the last update, I'm not sure, but theres now an option to enable V-Sync

As always, we're excited to hear all your thoughts on this <3

Hey there!

We wanted to publish another patch earlier but had to playtest the new Version more to not introduce new bugs with this update.

Here’s whats new:

• The camera now moves when the mouse is near the edge of the screen (changeable in settings)

• We included new storage box for milk

• We also improved the visual and recipe matching system again, fixing some wrong recipes, and allowing slightly incorrect items to go into cookie jars, etc., as long as they would also be accepted by a customer

• We added an FPS Number next to the target fps slider in the settings

• We also updated packages, making ingredients also use the animated packages, and we added smaller package for ingredients and bigger ones for furniture.

And these bugs are fixed:

• items in shop are labeled correctly now (we’ll still update some of the names in general later though)

• Items should now disappear, glitch out, or fall into the floor, significantly less often

• (hopefully) fixed the “failed to load IL2CPP” issue

• Baked goods like cookies, can’t be combined to trash anymore

• When doing one thing wrong (not adding baking soda) cookie dough looked right after mixing and - rolling but turned to trash when using cookie cutter, that is fixed

• Fixed package animation caused by scaling

• Slightly wrong cookies can now be placed in cookie jar

• When taking out and putting in cookies in cookie jar fast, they don’t get thick anymore

• slightly wrong muffing can become cupcakes now

• When pausing time closes the door, and its after closing hours, but

• there are still customers, the door remains closed after unpausing time

• made it so washing stuff doesn't add water

• Fixed build mode hotkey not working

• Improved Main Menu Performance

• when unpacking ingredients, butter and eggs are not rotated at first anymore

• Made it so items can’t go beneath the floor anymore

• Trying to stack oven trays no longer results in one of them turning into garbage

• Build Inventory works again

We're sorry this patch is took so long, we're working on the translation system for all the in-game texts and wanted to continue to add to it bit by bit so we can eventually translate the game in many more languages like portugese, chinese, spanish etc. we're already talking to freelance translators about that. But we accidentally opened a bit of a rabbit hole and couldn't continue without fixing it and had to redo large parts of the shop. That is also why we needed to do more thorough testing.

This however also was a huge step towards modding support, since it's now possible to externally edit the traders, including adding and removing items, adjusting icons and prices, and other settings, all from an easy to edit and reload mod-format

Here is some of what we plan to work on the next few days:

• of Course more Bugs, letters coming in when the game is paused and such

• adding a number which shows how much is in a storage item when hovering over it

• some additional tutorial parts

• a multiple fillings system for milk, hot chocolate and such

• a piping bag for frosting and updated Cupcake recipe

• making trays and display stands available in furniture shop so you have a cute way to store Muffins and such

• adding visual notifications for better accessibility

• and more :D

Hope you're having a great time <3

Marie & Janis

Hey, we just released version 0.9.4.

This is a smaller update, focused on addressing some issues that have come up.

After this update:

• Dragging & combining items should be more stable

• Items should not disappear anymore, or at the least way less often. (if they do, hold ctrl to grab them through walls)

• You get a preview of where a dragged item will appear after drop. This should make placement easier. We’ll turn this into an optional feature soon.

• V-Sync can now be enabled and disabled in the settings

• We fixed a bug, where some tutorials where shown again after a game was loaded.

Thanks again for all your feedback, were super happy to have such an active community and are having a blast working on the game.

~ Janis & Marie <3

Hey everyone,

we just released a new version! With this update, we have added the first version of the menu.

When your bakery opens in the morning, you are presented with all your unlocked baked goods and drinks, and you can decide, which of these you want to sell today. This should allow you to play the game more at your own pace.

When unlocking a recipe during the day, it is automatically added to your menu for the rest of the day.

We also added a reset button onto re-assigned controls, changed the look of the “Skip night” button, and fixed the following bugs:

• Tutorial does not break anymore when opening chocolate package too early

• You can’t put a package onto a baking tray anymore

• The colors of the curtains can be changed once again

• Empty mugs can’t be put into empty pots anymore

• The category title in the shop now actually works

• Added a save-guard, that should prevent any of the build mode placeable (cookie jar, shelfs, etc.) to be placed/teleport to places where they can’t be reached anymore

• Fixed various dragging issues regarding furniture, especially wall mounted objects like the flag.

The night has also become even longer, since lots of you felt like the game was a bit too fast, and we fully agree. At some point, we might even make this a setting, but for now, there is more time in the night and early morning, and you can always pause time by clicking on the clock on the bottom right shelf.

We also worked a little more on performance and overall stability. If anyone is experiencing crashes or unusually bad performance, please let us know, so we can gather info on what could be the cause.

Hellooo! Here is what we patched and added in this update:

• Storage placeables (Flour-Rack, Knife-Block, Chocolate-Box, Cookie-Jar,...)

• Added movement sensitivity slider

• Made combining mixingbowls nicer (no more flying around)

• Improved visual for end of day screen

• Attempted fix for drag-closing documents

• Made the night longer to allow for more prep

• Improve lemon muffin progress visuals

• Made mugs bigger

Thank you to everyone helping us find bugs! <3

~Marie & Janis

Hey there! We got lots of feedback over the last few days and here is what we implemented and fixed in the last update:

• Improved cooking pot mechanic: It is now possible to add items to an already cooking pot, which is way more intuitive. You can now also remove content from a completed cooking using a mug, by dragging it onto the pot. Also improved visuals.

• Added French translation

• Made it possible to close Letters with ESC (we’re working on fixing a bug where some players can’t close them using dragging)

• Fixed the recipe overview sometimes being multitudes bigger then wanted

• Improved the knives collider and animation to reduce physics glitches

• The clock and cash register stopped growing uncontrollably

• Prevented some unwanted combinations resulting in trash

• Translated some missing texts

• Updated some tutorial texts for clarity

• Increased WADS movement speeds

• Fixed small mistake in the brownie recipe

• And some smaller fixes and changes

Thank you so much for playing our game! <3 If you have any feedback for us, always feel free too tell us via Discord or the anonymous bug report tool in the game.

Have a nice day!✨

~Marie & Janis

Hello! We’ve launched into Early Access!! :D✨

A big thank you for everyone who has supported us getting here, this is a veryyyy exciting and scary moment for us.

We really hope you’re enjoying the game as it is already, but it’s going to be really amazing when it’s finished for sure! We have lots of plans for the Early Access and we’re excited to see what ideas everyone will add as well.

If you have any, be sure to visit our Discord and share them <3

The game has still quite a few issues we’re working on, so if you run into any hiccups, please let us know! We will bring up updates every few days in the beginning with mostly quality of life and bug changes as well as small features and then we’ll switch to bigger updates with completely new recipes, furniture and so on❤️

Here is a little notice explaining the current state of the game:

Hey! We've released many small updates over the last few days after getting lots of feedback, they include:

• you can now grab items even though walls when pressing ctrl

• the blur can be toggled of for anyone prone to dizziness

• some accessibility Options (more coming in Early Access)

• when throwing trash away the container doesn't get thrown away as well (it takes like 4 seconds to spawn back after but we're currently fixing that)

• the bakery open phase is a little shorter and the prep time a little longer now so you have a more time to get organized

• We improved performance by around 1/6 and implemented many more settings to make the game able to run on weaker pcs too like turning of the grass, custom limit the framerate and such (it does look like an old DS game if you turn everything to the lowest tho, we're working on further improving performance)

• Summer Festival currency fixed

• made the baking tray draggable onto counter to dumb its content in there

• Customized Floors and Walls get saved now

• You can’t put cup in pot anymore

• Ingredients and such snap stronger to the shelfs and (shouldn’t) fall out anymore (and baking soda can now be placed closer together in shelfs)

• Added a missing bowl content model for something with milk, egg and chocolate

• The summer festival balloon has now a special design differentiating it

• You can’t accidentally put finished pastries into bowls, cups etc. anymore (they looked like trash when you did that)

• There is now a new little slime scene where you get a recipe

• And we fixed the bugs we made while fixing these...

We’re working on many more things right now, bugs and little features, but if you find anything, please let us know and we’ll add it to the list.

One bigger issue we have seen very rarely is the game crashing, 3 players we know of had that issue, one even repeatedly.

The first two where somehow when interacting with the balloon. We couldn’t replicate these crashes in any way so far, so if you are having issues like these please let us know, maybe we could figure something out with a crash log or more hints, but we’ll keep searching on our side as well of course. We’re adding opt out auto saving in the next update as a first aid solution.

The next update will come sometime today <3

Thank you so much for your support!❤️ ~Janis & Marie

Hello! We've just uploaded a big demo update <3

In this, we have the first iteration of the bakery customization system. Feel free to give lots of ideas regarding that, like what colors, patterns or furniture you'd like to see.

Right now, you can change the color of many things like the rug, tablecloth, walls, and such and sometimes choose a pattern.

The colors and patterns are not final.

But feel free to suggest anything you'd love to have! ✨

Also, we replaced the "filling jar" progression system with a more organic one, where you get recipes in various ways. Right now there is only one very simple one, but we'll implement more very soon. We want to weave the overall story into it.
We fixed a lot of issues, like:

- Buggy windowed mode

- Pinned recipe being too small or too big

- Some recipes not being ordered

- Shop icons

- Outlines not showing up

- Many, many issues we found ourselves in the customization tool (snapping and placing stuff on top of each other was causing quite a bit of trouble)

- And many more :D

Oh, and you now see what is what as text when you hold Ctrl and hover over an object, but we're still working on overall identifiability of ingredients.

✨Build Mode Tutorial✨🛠️

Also, we haven't made anything tutorial like yet for the build mode so there is a quick one here if you wanna try it out:

If you click on the toolbox (the one below on the picture) you get into build mode, there you can grab stuff and drag it wherever you want, on the floor, on another table and such. You can also rotate objects holding "R". Some Objects have more design options, the walls for example can have patterns. Just right click on the wall or other objects and you can change the color or if available pattern. For the Mixer you can choose the kind of metal you want for the top and color for the bottom. You can also change color of Light for Lamps and such for maybe a mysterious ghostly Bakery or a a very warm one.

We also made some first little Furniture Options like lamps a plant and such. You can purchase those in the shop.

At the bottom is also a brush tool to color many things at once for example.

Later we also make a build mode inventory to store unused furniture.

Oh and you can delete furniture by clicking right click and then the trash can.

If you have any suggestions for the build mode or other aspects of the game, feel free to let us know and you can share your bakery builds on the discord, we’d love to see what everyone makes🫶

~Marie & Janis

Hey there! ✨

We just released a big update for the demo. It still doesn’t fully represents the full version of the game just jet, but there is quite a few new things now:

• Seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn & Winter) with seasonal weather

• A first Version of a Counter System

• 5 Recepices to try

• A Progression System

And maaany bugs have been resolved (hopefully):

• light flashes at night

• big light flash in the middle of the day (the sun got reflected in the whole ocean O.o)

• Volume Sliders not working or not saving

• Disappearing Baking Pan

• Items behind counter not being up pickable

• …and many more we made ourselves while fixing other stuff :D

Our lovely Kickstarter Bakers are helping us working on new features and fixing bugs. The Demo will be updated in the future again to better represent the current version of the game.

Thank you also to everyone in the steam community and our discord for all your feedback!

It helps a lot and it's so much fun developing this game with you all <3

~ Marie & Janis (Bubbly Games)