Waffle Painter

Waffle Painter is a top-down 2D puzzle game, in which you must color a grid to match a pattern.

Story
It's up to you to bring order to the chaotic world you live in! To do this, you must recolor the randomly colored grid until it matches the level pattern. The evil Fluffles of Chaos will be trying to stop you the whole time though, as they prefer the world random and chaotic!

Controls

 * Left and right keys: Turn
 * Up key: Move forward
 * Space: Change square color
 * Ctrl: Punch
 * Enter: Menu selection/pause

Staff

 * Brandon Vivian: Assistant Artist, Music, Programmer, Sound
 * Kristopher Selleke: Artist
 * Katlin Soderquist: Assistant Programmer, QA Tester

Known Bugs
As of version 5, Waffle Painter contains several minor bugs, which are as follows:

Gameplay Bugs

 * Purple enemies sometimes spawn outside the playing field.
 * Enemies can still spawn during a level complete sequence.
 * Levels can still be completed even if stone enemies are present.
 * Enemies can still spawn during a death sequence.
 * Enemies can drop powerups on title screen when returning to it after death.

Sound Bugs

 * Title screen music only loops once.
 * Music continues playing while paused.
 * If music ends while paused, it won't play until the next loop.
 * Ice enemies do not make any sound when punched.
 * Title screen music does not play when returning to it after death.

Planned Features
Waffle Painter had several planned features, including gameplay changes such as projectile weapons, a new type of enemy with increased speed, and bosses. It sought to improve the severe difficulty spike and story representation, as well as add a level select screen and an update checker.

However as of 2022, there are no plans to implement these features, instead intending to only fix bugs before releasing a "final" version of the game.

Changelog
The first version released to the public was Version 5 on February 12, 2013. As of yet, no earlier versions have been available for download.


 * Version 1 (January 28, 2013)
 * Version 2 (January 30, 2013)
 * Version 3 (January 30, 2013)
 * Version 3.2 (February 4, 2013)
 * Version 4 (February 5, 2013)
 * Version 5 (February 12, 2013, released February 12, 2013)

Trivia

 * Waffle Painter is one of the few games to be developed in GameMaker instead of Game Editor.
 * There are 3 levels in the game, with an intentional intense difficulty spike in the last level. This is because the last level was never meant to be completed due to the lack of content. Allegedly, if the last level was completed, the End of Programming message would be displayed.