Budget Backrooms | Christmas Update! (0.0.13 Alpha)

New Release! What's new?

Well, this one was a bit rushed aye? Merry Christmas y'all!11

⚙ General Changes

• Updated the 'Tip: Smilers hate light' hint due to confusion.
• The Memerooms & Classic
  • Fixed the double-jumpscare bug and players not being able to respawn.
• Christmas cutscene in the Main Menu.
• Removed the Flashlight cookie, just experimenting.

🗺 Map Changes

Level 0

• Restored Ambiental Music by C418

Level 1

• The staircase area is more lit, and fixed the hitbox issue that prevented players from going down the stairs.

Sub-Level "Before This Game Existed"

• Re-enabled and repalced the music in the cassette player.

Level 4

• Slight layout changes.
• Added small lore, and hint on where to interact, hopefully players will figure it out.

🎨 UI Changes

• Added a confirm exit dialogue when exiting from in-game to main menu.
• The warning icon when flashlight is on near smilers has been replaced and moved near the Stamina Bar.
• Added a more nice audio transition from Main Menu to in-game.
• Hint when running out of stamina.

🐞 Known Issues

• Level 1 Out-Of-Bounds Bug

If you found a bug, or you have questions, please make an issue on GitHub or join the Discord Server by clicking on the badge:

Warning

Patches are not available on GitHub & itch.io, preferably use the Steam Version.

Have fun! And stay tuned, more content will be available asap.

Budget Backrooms | Steamy Update (0.0.12 Alpha)

New Release! What's new?

After a long time, destroyed sanity, and squeezed brains, a new update has been processed.

⚙ General Changes

• The Memerooms (Gamemode)

  • Experience the most goofiest way to play Budget Backrooms
    • 21st century humor now has been added to Budget Backrooms
    • Quandale Dingle makes its appearance! He will chase you no matter what (definitely not Garry's Mod inspired)
    • Copyrighted music & sounds, good luck streaming the game on Twitch (Streamer Mode is available from the Gamemode page)
      • Or any other platform that gives an instant DMCA Strike and takes your whole stream down

• Redesigned Video Settings

  • AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 1.0 (AMD FSR 1.0 for short) has now been integrated into the game. [it's up to you if you really want to enable it]
    • Anti-Aliasing must be set to Low or better in order for this option to be available.
    • The resolution slider has been removed in favour of this function for now. (not sponsored)
    • More FPS, at the expense of image quality.
    • You can choose from the options:
      • Ultra Quality
      • Quality
      • Balanced
      • Performance
      • Off

• More (integrated) Achievements.

• Audio Settings is now more customizable.

  • Wow! You can disable the main menu music?!11

• Changed Audio Subsystem to Steam Audio (screw you Google Resonance for loud sounds).

• New Main Menu cutscene.

• Added The Fog.

• You can die in two ways in Level 1.

• Attempted to improve flaslight cookie and range.

• Player(s) can now disable Discord RPC Integration (requires game restart)

• Smilers now get a slight delay before attacking.

• Partial controller support.

• Camera Sensivity is now customizable.

🗺 Map Changes

Level 0

• Fixed Arrow Color
• Changed the Howler's post processing effect when really close to entity.

Level "!"

• More reflections, and increased Smiler Speed, with a slight jumpscare

Other Changes

• Added Level 4 and Level 1 A2 and another "secret" one (Annex 2, Level 1 alternate variation, and a new sub-level for level 0)

🎨 UI Changes

• New Main Menu UI.
• All the settings are now available, and can be customized in-game without having to switch to the Main Menu!!!!!!
• Resized the controls corner reminder.
• Added a "seamless" transition between levels (loading text).
• More yapping in the Disclaimer Screen.
• Buttons that open a link in the browser will show a tooltip instead of an extra dialogue.

🐞 Known Issues

• Level 1 Optimization

If you found a bug, or you have questions, please make an issue on GitHub or join the Discord Server by clicking on the badge:

Warning

Patches are not available on GitHub & itch.io, preferably use the Steam Version (it takes me a lot of time to upload them on each platform)

Have fun!

Budget Backrooms | Anniversary Update (0.0.10 Alpha) [Part 2]

New Release! What's new?

⚙ General Changes

• NVIDIA Ansel, press ALT + F2 to trigger it in game.

• Unused Levels (Gamemode)

  • There are 3 levels added into the gamemode.
  • Pause menu is now detected as "Debug Mode". In the future it will include a little cheat menu for the user to tweak and have fun to. Currently it only shows "Debug Mode" for fancy look.

• The Sprint System is now remade and with possible fixes.

  • Dynamic FOV (when sprinting, fov increases, zooming should be bug free, there is a slight animation bug and I can't do much about it because two instances of fov r running and the game gets confused, no idea).
  • You now have to stay in place for 3s to regenerate stamina.

• Changes to the player speed and stamina.

• You are now able to delete your saved data.

  • What's being reset?
    • Achievements.
    • Map Data.
    • Map state (if you picked up the flashlight for example).
    • One-time dialogues.
  • Access the Pause Menu and in the left upper corner of the screen there should be a trash icon.
    • The button is also available in the Main Menu -> Settings -> Other Settings -> "Delete saved data"

• Google Resonance is back in business.

• Fixed the graphical color artifacts that would appear on some GPUs (including mine, it was a project config issue apparently).

• Controller support has been deprecated and remove, in the favour of a complete remake for the system in the near future

🗺 Map Changes

Level 0

• Level 0's exit has been modified, it's still at the same location.

• Lights in Level 0 are now able to start acting funny.

• The noclippable floor should have a discoverable area nearby.

• The Howler should be more capable of seeing the player. Its speed has been slowed down so you can escape from him more easily. I won't have mercy once I release the Hardcore gamemode

• There are now Deja Vu signs scattered around the place, you have to play the game at least once to see them.

Level 1

• Level 1 got a complete make-over, it should be more laggy and interesting because I'm an incapable person to make static lighting.
  • More props.
  • Exit has been slightly relocated.

Level "You Cheated"

• The untextured part at the beginning was fixed.

  • "The Void" (or the thing that teleports you back)'s collision box was extended so you don't need to restart if you somehow get out of bounds.
  • Light flickering
  • You now have the flashlight and sprinting system.

🎨 UI Changes

• Fixed the dropdown buttons in the Main Menu
  • The user could click the wiki and GitHub button even if it didn't show there.
• Little text in the Main Menu.
• A small chance to have a random icon when loading the game (from opening the game to the warning screen).
• More use of the tooltips system.

🐞 Known Issues

• Level 1 Optimization.
• Possible audio glitches because of Google Resonance. Report them ASAP :(
• FOV glitches when sprinting & zooming at the same time.

If you found a bug, or you have questions, please make an issue on GitHub or join the Discord Server by clicking on the badge:

Have fun!

Budget Backrooms | Update (v0.0.9) [Part 1]

New Release! What's new?

⚙ General Changes

• Optimized Level 0, 1 & 2.
• Cutscene in Level 0.
• New Flashlight system.
• Music.
• More, Sound Effects because why not.
• Spawn of LV0 has been slightly relocated.
• Optimized walls for Level 0, they had a lot of vertices from Unreal Engine goofy ahh LOD System.
• You can now use the Audio Settings section from the Main Menu.
• New Mechanic for Level 2.
• Level 2 lights have been relocated.

🎨 UI Changes

• Main Menu UI is now a tiny bit smaller.
• GitHub button was relocated in the mini drawer near the settings button.
• Click the Version button.
• Dot Crosshair now smaller.
• New graphic test room thingy in Video Settings from the Main Menu, please I need feedback, should I keep it?.

🐞 Known Issues

• Reverb temporarily disabled, because of a bug from Google Resonance making the sounds being earrape. Issue still being investigated, everything works normally in editor but packaged build not.

If you found a bug, or you have questions, please make an issue on GitHub or join the Discord Server by clicking on the badge:

Have fun playing the game, I'm trying my best. 😄

Budget Backrooms | Christmas Update (v0.0.8)

New Release! What's new?

⚙ General Changes

• Seasonal stuff in the Main Menu
• Migrated audio system to Google Resonance, now it should be better
• Discord Rich Presence
• 2 New sub-levels accesible through some noclippable walls in LV0
• • Level "You Cheated"
• • Level ! | ("Run for your life")
• Camera tilt when moving left/right
• Controller vibrations and partial controller support.

🎨 UI Changes

• New opening video
• Changed the "Click to continue" to "Click here to continue" button in the warning.

🐞 Known Issues

• Audio Settings not working (yet)

If you found a bug, or you have questions, please make an issue on GitHub or join the Discord Server by clicking on the badge:

Have fun playing the game, I'm trying my best. 😄

Budget Backrooms | Update & improvements (v0.0.7 Alpha)

New Release! What's new?

🤖 AI / Entity Changes

• Partially improved the Howler AI, not the best, still working on it.
• Howler's head is now correctly rotated.

⚙ General Changes

• Nicer decorations for Level 1
• Added Smiler and a nice mechanic.
• Added Level 2.
• Arrows on Level 0 to guide you to the exit. (May not be accurate).
• Reduced flashlight lag (that smoothness when you move the flashlight).
• Crosshair dot is now smaller.
• Added Camera Zoom (hold C).
• Tried fixing the footstep sound effect interval
• Other internal blueprint changes

🎨 UI Changes

• More buttons on the map end screen
• Fancy Warning screen
• Better Video Settings menu, now it gets saved and there's a fancy Resolution Scaling slider
• Fade in / out when opening pause menu also a nice transition to the new video settings menu for the pause menu

🐞 Known Issues

• Goofy ahh animation on Howler
• Audio Settings not working (yet)

If you found a bug, or you have questions, please make an issue on GitHub or join the Discord Server by clicking on the badge:

Have fun playing the game, I'm trying my best. 😄

Budget Backrooms | Preview (v0.0.6 Alpha)

Pre-release v0.0.6-pre1

This is a pre-release, which means it's a preview of what's coming to v0.0.6. More previews coming soon, maybe? Take this version as a “what has the developer been doing past these months” version.

🤖 AI / Entity Changes

• Partially improved the Howler AI, not the best, still working on it.
• Howler's head is now correctly rotated.

⚙ General Changes

• Added Smiler (not AI).
• Level 2 (Pipe Dreams??? Still Work In Progress).
• Arrows on Level 0 to guide you to the exit. (May not be accurate).
• Reduced flashlight lag (that smoothness when you move the flashlight).
• Crosshair dot is now smaller.
• Added Camera Zoom (hold C).

🎨 UI Changes

• Fancy Warning screen.
• Better Video Settings menu, now it gets saved and there's a fancy Resolution Scaling slider.

🐞 Known Issues

• Arrows not being so correct in Level 0.
• Goofy ahh animation on Howler.
• Audio Settings not working.
• Controller support is broken intentionally for now. I've got to fix something.

If you found a bug, or you have questions, please make an issue on GitHub or join the Discord Server by clicking on the badge:

Have fun playing the game, I'm trying my best. 😄

Budget Backrooms | Update (v0.0.5 Alpha)

New release! What's new?

🤖 AI / Entity Changes

• Added a placeholder sound cue when the entity is nearby.
• The AI is a little bit more smarter (still working on it).

⚙ General Changes

• Reduced camera smoothness.
• Balanced sprint, lasts more and gives more speed, now faster than the entity so you can escape that 1 pixel of getting caught.
• Fixed that second click needed to make the player camera work.
• Fixed the dialogue when exiting an unfinished level.
• Added interactions (press E to interact with an interactable object)
• Added an interesting 1-minute long cinematic in the main menu
• Added Level 1, still WIP
• Added partial controller support, buttons work but you can't interact with the UI when a controller is connected.

🎨 UI Changes

• Now you can restart the level from the pause menu
• A new "gamemode" menu that's still work in progress.
• Added a FPS statistics button (only accessed from the video settings from the main menu sorry guys i was lazy)

🐞 Known Issues

• Light bleeding it's still not fixed, but it's at it's minimal.

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📝 TODO (Things to do for next version)

• Fix ugly corners in level 0
• More levels
• Optimize game
• Make AI smarter
• Better Settings
• More Entities

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If you found a bug, or you have questions, please make an issue on GitHub or send me a DM via Discord at: David.#7643. Have fun playing the game, I'm trying my best. 😄

Sorry for the long wait, I just don't have that much time to develop updates for the game, I'm doing this project on my freetime

Budget Backrooms | Refresh Update (v0.0.4 Alpha)

New release! What's new?

• Remade the settings menu on the main menu (temporarily only the video settings work)
• Added random camera animation on the Main Menu
• Re-added jumping, for now
• Changed the floor fabric texture
• Made the sprint bar a little bit smaller and transparent
• Added smooth camera
• Added Depth Of Field
• Added Howlers
• Relocated spawn location [Howlers can't get in there because they would spawn kill you and then you are forced to go to the main menu to restart the level, chill out guys I'll add a restart button soon]
• Added a fade-in when spawned in Level 0
• Respawn UI transition
• Added Flashlight
• Added version number in main menu
• Added pillars in level 0
• Rework on AI for entities
• Expanded sprint time (a little bit)
• Added effect when Howler is near you (you may get a glitchy vision, that means he is around you, just run)

🐞 Known Issues

• Light Bleeding (that means when you can see the light through the walls, I'm trying to fix this because I know it's annoying)
• Inaccurate shadows

If you found a bug, or you have questions, please make an issue on GitHub or send me a DM via Discord at: David.#7643. Have fun playing the game, I'm trying my best. 😄

Budget Backrooms | Major Update (v0.0.3 Alpha)

New release! What's new?

• Expanded map
• Now there's an exit out of Level 0
• UI Sounds
• Sprint (took a lot of time to add but it generally works with minor glitches)
• An placeholder cube which acts as an AI, spawned in the middle of the map, does follow the player but you can get easily rid of it intentionally. (took a lot of time too just to make the behavior tree)
• Removed Jumping because it's useless for now.

🐞 Known Issues

• When sprinting and going into the exit door, the sprint progress bar gets stuck, even after continuing the game, you can press BACKSPACE to restart the level if you want.