Hi all! o/ Thank you all so much for your support of my first little game and all the feedback you are sending me! Here are the patchnotes:

General Stuff:

• NEW Refresh Button on Level Up Screen
  • It is now possible to refresh upgrades on level up three times. I might add rewards or drops to the maps which can increase this. Looking forward to your feedback
• NEW The Loading Screen features useful tips now
• Upgrade button now shows "Loading..." when clicked on it, to prevent the illusion of a lag
• Menu buttons are reacting faster to input
• Changed scary ghosts sound effect
• Better wording for coffee rush, so it's clear what it does
• Better contrast on witch duo's attacks
• NEW Right-click on a level to open and close the challenge panel in addition to [hover over a level] + [TAB]
• NEW Left-click to leave the challenge panel
• Screen Shake added for weapons with ground impact
• Gift Boxes now drop more stuff after getting P,L,I,N or S to unlock Bella

Balancing Changes:

• Level 1 Synergy weapons are now unlocked automatically if the required prerequisites are fullfilled.
• Horde Mode negative slots appear more often, the longer the player survives. these thresholds have been pushed back by 60 seconds
• Maple Syrup Tornados are slightly bigger now
• Changed Bob's Synergy weapon with Bella's
• The hidden exit now appears near the last cleared objective in Level 2

Bugfixes:

• Bob now correctly turns around when his special is active.
• Elite enemy drops now correctly drop apart from each other and not on top

Known Issues:

• [strike]Playing a level and then quitting the game from the main menu afterwards may lead to a crash. Issue is related to saving the file. I'm working on a fix.[/strike] FIXED

Balancing: - changed damage curve for most early weapons - before the damage was quite low for the first 4 to 7 levels, depending on the weapon. now its more spread out, so early levels in a weapon are worthwhile. this should help with early progression and bad RNG - increased coin rewards on stronger enemies (magic ghosts in particular) General: - fixed a soft lock issue, which could occure if a level up and player death are triggered at the same time Horde Mode: - fixed a bug where sound was overlapping Map Screen: - fixed a bug where Level 3 wasnt showing, although it was unlocked Boss Mode: - changed Boss Rush image, to signal its available right from the start

Steam Achievements and Leaderboards should be working now. Past achieved Achievements and highscores can be unlocked in the Settings menu

level 2: - proper lighting on candles - introductory big slime monster, to show it's new mechanic on level start - adjusted enemy spawns throughout the level - lowered boss's eye HP by 50% on lowest difficulty level 3: - fixed apprentice witch attacks ignoring paused game state - increased exp from small gift boxes - fixed sound issues general: - increased exp and coin gains from harder enemies - increased length of Snowflake's special attack from 10s to 20s

just a small update fixing a progression bug past Level 2, caused by a SteamDeck check getting stuck. This check only affects tutorial input images, so I removed it for now.

New Features:

• Added the following Steam leaderboards:
  • Horde Mode Time Survived (higher = better).
  • Horde Mode Highscore (higher = better).
  • Boss Rush Clear Time (lower = better).
  • Boss Rush Highscore (higher = better).
• Leaderboards are currently only accessible through Steam.
• Added a button in the options menu to manually push leaderboard scores to Steam.
• Localized all achievements for all supported languages.
• Introduced more detailed shadows for players, elites, bosses, and enemies.
• Added an in-game settings menu, currently featuring only sound settings. Feel free to suggest additional options.
• Added synergy icons to the level-up screen to help players identify synergies between abilities more easily.
  
• Improved collision detection for items to make them easier to pick up.
• Added a short invincibility frame after the level-up screen to prevent unavoidable damage.
• Added a guaranteed weapon upgrade option on the first level-up to reduce the impact of bad RNG.
• Removed irritating graphics on volume sliders.
• Added [space] as an alternative to [enter] for one-handed gaming.
• Added an indicator to the main menu that shows when a new boss fight is available in the "Boss Modes" menu.
  
• Added a scroll indicator to the [TAB] menu on the world map.

Balance Changes:

• Increased damage for all weapons at max level.
• Reduced Evelyn's HP by 64% (Level 1 Boss).
• Reduced Ruffles' HP by 23% (Level 3 Boss).
• Increased enemy damage across the board.
• Increased elite enemies' HP from the second spawn onward (Level 1).
• Increased enemy speed and defense after a specific threshold is reached or manually triggered (Level 2).
• Increased pickup area of weapons in Stage 4, to prevent starting the boss with no weapons equipped.
• Changed damage modifier difficulty setting.
• Slightly reduced the difficulty of Evelyn's bullet patterns (Normal version only; this change does not affect the Alternative and Beta versions).
• Increased coin rewards on higher difficulties.
• Lowered maximum coin costs for all upgrades.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed sound levels in level 1.
• Fixed a bug where achievements (in-game and Steam), which should only trigger on completing a level, are triggered on the player's death.
• Fixed an issue where mouse and keyboard/controller controls could highlight multiple upgrades on level up, making it unclear which one was picked.
• Fixed an issue where enemies became untargetable after the number of enemies on screen exceeded 500.
• Fixed graphic issues on musical notes, musical tornado, and musical wave.
• Fixed an issue where the window was always on top.
• Fixed in-game live score display to properly include character-specific multipliers.
• Fixed overlapping text on the level-up screen caused by the introduction of the new "synergy" information.

Gather your spatulas and get ready to flip some pancakes when Pancake Patrol releases on the 16th of October 2024!

Hi there! the last months have been very stressful and I only made slow progress, unfortunately. Nevertheless, I'm almost finished! Blobking was one of the missing bosses, which is now complete, which only leaves the final boss to work on, Growl. After that it's a lot of polishing and implementing Steam API stuff, like achievements and leaderboard. How hard can that be, right? I'm still aiming for a September '24 release, but if this will change, I'll have you informed end of this month. Thank you for your ongoing support!

March has ended a while ago and I made a lot of progress! The UI got a complete overhaul and is now a lot prettier and intuitive. I completed the base versions for all stages and almost all bosses, only the final boss is missing now and I've started to tackle the sound effect and music design.

Hello Pancake, Bullet Heaven and Bullet Hell Fans! The month of February is over and I made heaps of progress with Pancake Patrol! I'm almost finished with the default game mode's levels and halfway through the initial line up of boss fights and I'm confident I can wrap up 100% of the base content in March. After that I'll have a lot of polishing and balancing to do. Once this is done, I'll focus on preparing the Demo for the Steam Next Fest in June

Hello Pancake, Bullet Heaven and Hell Fans! Today I just want to give you all a quick update about the progress of Pancake Patrol. It's going really well, I've almost completed the new UI, which is a lot more beautiful than before and slowly but surely everything is coming together and looking better and better every day! I also began to simplify the UI overall as it was too fragmented, so the DPS Dummy moved to Options, Variety Modes were moved to the new Map screen, simply titled "Play" and everything boss related is unified under "Boss Menu" Here is an example of the new Boss Modes menu:
As for gameplay content, I've finished Levels 1-3, the Horde Mode, 4 out of 10 boss fights, DPS Dummy and the Harry 1v1 fight. There is still a lot of work to do, but I'm confident that nothing stands in the way of a release in summer 2024.

v0.18.0 updates: New Stuff: - Evelyn Boss Alternative Version - new challenges vor Level 1 & 2 - First Version of Stage 2 is available! - Full Tutorial - 16:9/16:10 support - Loading Screens Adjustments: - better challenge scrolling with controllers - Increased usefulness of the Maple Whisk: - enemy rebalancing - sound effects for enemies - player armor is now percentage based - changed Whysies and Snowflakes unlock conditions Bug Fixes: - no more crashes on exiting a level on Windows 11

v0.18.0 updates: New Stuff: - Evelyn Boss Alternative Version - new challenges vor Level 1 & 2 - First Version of Stage 2 is available! - Full Tutorial - 16:9/16:10 support - Loading Screens Adjustments: - better challenge scrolling with controllers - Increased usefulness of the Maple Whisk: - enemy rebalancing - sound effects for enemies - player armor is now percentage based - changed Whysies and Snowflakes unlock conditions Bug Fixes: - no more crashes on exiting a level on Windows 11

v0.17.1 update is live: - changed some level end screen stuff to hopefully fix a crash on some lower spec windows machines - some more performance improvements - fixed elite enemy movement - fixed rewards scaling in Horde Mode

update 0.17.0 is ready! Horde mode was just planned as a small little addition, but it took me the entire week to get iron out loooots of bugs - Huge Performance improvements - Difficulty Settings are now saved on Exit - New Variety Mode - HORDE: -- Fight through hordes of normal enemies -- get a debuff every 2 minutes -- find gift boxes and defeat Cpt. Crustacean to receive buffs -- Unlock Cpt. Crustacean as playable character

v0.16.0 updates: - Harry is available as a playable character! -- solve the Pentagram and follow the clues. - added Versus mode for Harry's fight (real Versus Content following soon) - added an EXP multiplier on higher difficulties

v0.15.5 updates: - removed Pancake Batter Pot: as a must have upgrade it limited upgrade variety. Weapons buffed accordingly. - fleshed out the Pentagram "Riddle" up until it's last stage (still cannot Unlock Harry, sorry :D) - added 3 challenges related to the Pentagram - added "Good Boy Buff" in Level 1

v0.15.3 updates: - balancing changes to character stats - some smaller bugfixes - included first bit of the Pentagram stuff (can't be completed yet)

bugs fixed: - goo was broken and did not take it's increased damage per level into account - coffee spiral was broken and did not take it's increased damage per level into account - sakura sugarfall was broken and did not take it's increased damage per level into account - cheesy chains animation was broken and is now fixed balance changes: - most initial upgrades in the "upgrades" menu are cheaper - extra boss levels and extra live are more expensive - brought bad buttermilk up to par with other specials damage-wise

v0.15 updates: - new base weapon: Cotton Candy Cloud - new upgraded weapon: Cream Cheese Whip - new upgraded weapon: Musical Note Tornado - new upgraded weapon: Sakura Rainfall - new upgraded weapon: Sweet Treat - new upgraded weapon: Sticky Aura

v0.14.1 of the Pancake Patrol Closed Beta is live on Steam with the following updates: - added DPSDummy mode to Variety - endgame damage upgrade changed from +1 flat to +2% - option to autopick +2% Damage on level up - food no longer drops if player is at max HP - armor no longer drops when armor is at 99% (min. damage remains at 0.01) - Marsha's slow now properly affects Zella (Elite ghost)

v0.13.6 updates: - Marsha balancing changes - specials deal more damage - changes to difficulty settings - Horde > Variety (soon) - Boss Rush menu got an overhaul, including challenges now and prepared for different boss rush modes - new option to change to fullscreen, windowed, stretched. borderless bugged rn

Happy New Year! Here's the first closed beta update for Pancake Patrol for the Year of 2024! Many more and the official release to come v0.13.5 updates: - added an idle indicator - enemies pushing the player no longer counts as movement - live score updates now includes difficulty - steeper exp curve past lv70 - resized Level Up Panel - more level up options in Boss Rush - elites uncoupled from enemy spawner - elites cannot overlap each other anymore

v0.13.4 updates:

• upgrade prices changed
• max enemy spawn set to x5
• new coin gain formula
• added snowflake unlock challenge to Lv1
• Gift Box HP bar now has numerical values
• added an info box when a new challenge has been completed
• German Umlaute added to the font (,,,,,)

update v0.13.1 is live: - proper enemy layering (behind player if above, in front of player if below) - enemies catch up to the player faster now New Features: - added 21 Challenges to Level 1 (not all can be done in the Beta yet, like Pentagram + some Character clears) - Score Tracker

v0.12.3a update: Performance Tweaks: - removed Lantern Ghosts PointLight node - changed enemy movement logic Bugfix: - movement was falsely set to 45 for all enemies

**v0.12.3 update:** - increased overall performance while having many enemies on screen - changed Mimic Boss Behaviour: -- stun duration 20s > 10s -- page spawns 1.5s > 1s -- page burn area expand 2s > 8s -- phase 2 "wiggle" 20s > 9s - Ruffles: easier carrot projectiles