To everyone playing, testing, and sharing WALLOP — thank you. Every bug report, every "this feels off," every run you've pushed through makes the game better. You're fighting through waves of food-themed chaos so we can find the fun. We see you. This one's for you.

— The Pizza Hero Gaming team

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Low-volume SFX for pickups, level-ups, boss spawns, and chest opens, plus a looping music track for each stage.

Music — Abstraction (Benjamin Burnes) · abstractionmusic.com · from the album “Sketchbook”.

Sound effects — Kenney UI & RPG audio packs (CC0) · kenney.nl

3D models — Quaternius (CC0) · quaternius.com

Controller glyphs — Xelu’s FREE Controller Prompts (CC0)

v0.12.7 — Controller & Polish

• Better controller detection — the game no longer mistakes headsets and other USB gadgets for a gamepad, so your real controller is picked up properly (including when you plug it in mid-run).
• Rate the game — after a win you may get a chance to leave a rating without leaving the game. Totally optional.

v0.12.6 — Steam Polish

• Auto-pause when your controller unplugs — if your pad disconnects mid-run (battery dies, cable pops out), the game now pauses so you don't take hits you can't react to.
• Pauses when you tab away — alt-tabbing off the desktop build pauses the game.

v0.12.0 — Run Tracking Fixes

• Leaving a run early still counts — quit to the menu mid-run and your kills still bank toward the leaderboards, and in Endless your survival time is recorded too. No more losing progress by bailing out.
• Cleaner start screen on phones — the weekly board no longer crowds the slice total and logo; tap 📊 Leaderboards to see it.

v0.11.0 — Cloud Save & Achievements

• Cloud saves (Android) — your slices, unlocks, and progress now sync to Google Play Games, so a new phone or reinstall picks up right where you left off. A “Back Up” button lives in Settings, and a little cloud icon flashes whenever it saves.
• 27 achievements — unlock badges for boss kills, win streaks, level milestones, arena clears, and more, tracked through Google Play Games.
• Leaderboards (Android) — global & friends boards for endless survival, fastest Warlord kills, and highest level on every arena and difficulty, plus a weekly Most Kills race.

v0.10.1 — Boundaries & Performance

• See the edge — the arena boundary now fades into view as you get close, so the play area's limits are always clear.
• Runs cooler on phones — a new Graphics Quality setting (Settings → Graphics: Battery Saver / Balanced / High) plus a frame-rate cap keep your phone cooler and the battery lasting longer.

v0.10.0 — Endless Mode

• ENDLESS MODE — a whole new way to play: no stages, no finish line. Survive as long as you can, bank 🍕 slices every minute, and chase your personal best on every arena and difficulty. Pick it on the run screen.
• Leaderboards (Steam) — global & friends boards for endless survival, fastest Warlord kills, and a weekly Most Kills race that resets every Sunday.

v0.9.9 — Polish

• Wishlist on Steam! The title screen now has a shiny badge in the corner — tap it to wishlist WALLOP on Steam. Every wishlist helps a ton!
• Clearer level-up cards — upgrade badges now read like "LV 3->4" (with MAX on the final level) instead of "4/4", so you can tell it's an upgrade, not a cap.

v0.9.8 — Fixes & Steam

• Boss HP bar fixed on phones — it no longer overlaps the timer/stats; it now resizes to fit the gap on any screen.
• Update reminder — the game now lets you know when a newer version is out.
• WALLOP is on Steam! Wishlist it from the new banner on the title screen — every wishlist helps a ton.

v0.9.7 — Polish & Fixes

• Official controller button icons — the on-screen prompts now use the real PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch glyph art instead of stand-ins.
• Gold now flies to you like XP does — coins magnetize from a wider range instead of only when you're right on top of them.
• Music resumes after watching an ad (was staying silent when you came back).
• Readability: the Slices counter number is legible again on its wooden frame.
• Smaller download — trimmed a big pile of unused files from the build.

v0.9.6 — Controller support

• Full controller support: play the whole game on a gamepad — menus, Armory, Settings, and level-up picks included. On-screen prompts show the right glyphs for your pad (PlayStation ✕◯▢, Xbox A/B/X, or Switch).
• Tutorial now covers Jump & Dash (was just Move & Look).
• Boss HP bar sits cleanly at the top on phones now instead of floating mid-screen.
• Menus: smoother navigation — level-up cards read left-to-right, sliders/toggles work on a controller, and the button-hint bar never covers content.

v0.9.5 — Fixes

• Deep Dish fixed: the pizza was rendering way bigger than its actual hit area — now it matches.
• Readability: the Difficulty and Arena labels on the run-setup screen are now easy to read (were faint yellow on a light panel).

v0.9.4 — Shop Polish

• Confirm before spending: unlocking or upgrading now asks before it spends your slices — no more accidental purchases.
• Buy heroes from the title screen: locked characters can be unlocked right from the character selector (the price was already there) — no digging through the Armory.
• Fixed: a rare bug where the game could keep running behind the main menu after finishing a challenge during a level-up.

v0.9.3 — Progression Gating

• Arenas unlock one at a time: beat an arena on Normal+ to unlock the next one (no more skipping ahead).
• Difficulty progression: each arena starts on Easy/Normal — clear Normal to unlock Hard, clear Hard to unlock Extreme. Tracked per arena.

v0.9.2 — Settings + Data Controls

• Settings menu: a proper Settings screen from the title and pause menus — volume, accessibility toggles (screen shake, reduce flashes, damage numbers), and more.
• Erase save data: Settings → Data lets you permanently wipe your slices, unlocks, and settings on this device.
• Runs offline: the game no longer needs a connection to load (assets bundled locally).
• PC build groundwork: fullscreen/windowed modes, controller support, and rebindable keys for the desktop version.

v0.9.1 — Polish Pass

• New title screen: A cleaner, more professional main menu — a big WALLOP logo up top, a focused PLAY-first menu column, and your selected hero shown center-stage over the live arena. The camera now slides the hero aside when you open "Configure Your Run."
• Sharper menu text: The Challenges / Armory / About buttons now read clearly against their background.
• Runs cooler: Frame rate is capped on mobile so the game stays smooth and steady instead of overheating your phone on high-refresh screens.
• Cleanup: Removed internal dev/testing tools from the public build.

v0.9 — Rewards & the Road to Android

• Watch ads for slices (mobile): At the end of a run you can watch one ad to DOUBLE the slices you earned that run, and the Armory has a new "+3 slices" button you can tap a few times a day for a steady top-up. Ad rewards are mobile-only — the PC build never shows them.
• Fair play: The end-of-run ad only doubles slices you earned from kills — challenge bounties can't be doubled. And you'll never get two full-screen ads back to back on one run.
• Compact boss bars: Each boss is now a single slim bar with its name + HP, so multiple bosses at once no longer eat half the screen on phones.
• Mobile HUD fix: The HP bar, loadout, XP bar, and pause button now sit correctly around notches/camera cutouts instead of being shoved inward on phones with a display cutout.
• WALLOP is coming to Android: the game is now wrapped as a native Android app (landscape-locked, app icon, ad support wired up) and headed for Google Play closed testing. 📱

v0.8 — Onboarding & Challenge Expansion

• Cinematic menu → gameplay transition: Hitting START RUN now slides the run-config panel to the left over the live hero + arena backdrop (swapping arenas updates the backdrop in real time). Pressing PLAY orbits the camera smoothly from the menu portrait pose around behind the hero into the exact gameplay framing — one continuous shot, no hard cut.
• Redesigned mobile title screen: Live 3D forest backdrop with the selected hero on the right, centered WALLOP wordmark, and a big PLAY. The hero swaps when you pick a different character. About moved to a corner pill; logo + menu reflowed so nothing clips on the smallest landscape phones.
• First-run tutorial: A new player's very first run freezes the clock and enemy spawns and walks them through MOVE then LOOK — each step clears when it detects you actually doing it. Skippable, only ever shows once, and skipped entirely on challenge runs.
• 7 new challenges (12 total). Any-character: Double Trouble (both bosses before 7:00) and Level Rush (level 20 by 5:00). Character-specific, gated until you own the character and auto-equipping it for the run: Bullseye (Anchovy Archer), Cold Snap (Frost Baker), Immovable (Oven Knight), Hit & Run (Crust Runner), Night Shift (Stealth Slice).
• Original challenges retuned harder after a difficulty sim showed they were soft: Speed Demon's window tightened to 30s (kill the Sauce Slinger before 3:30), Glass Cannon dropped to 40% HP and now demands surviving to 6:00, Slaughterhouse bumped 150 → 200 kills.
• Confirmation prompts on the pause menu's RESTART and MAIN MENU so a stray tap can't throw away an active run. ESC cancels the prompt instead of resuming underneath it.
• Quality-of-life: a BACK button now sits at the top of the About screen too, so you don't have to scroll past the whole patch log to leave.

v0.7 — Bosses, Audio & Polish Pass

• 9 unique boss models via Quaternius CC0 pack — each arena now has its own Sauce Slinger / Hammer Chef / Warlord. Pepperoni Pines: Wizard → Big Orc → Big Demon. Sundried Slopes: Big Cactoro → Goleling Evo → Mushroom King. Frostbite Glacier: Ghost → Big Yeti → Frozen Wyrm (pale-blue dragon).
• 18 themed enemy variants (6 enemy slots × 3 arenas). Mook-vs-boss visual gap: Blob/Orc mooks vs Big/Orc boss feels like "the giant version of those guys I've been killing." 27 models total, 32 MB.
• Boss phases actually matter: ENRAGED (50% HP) bumps speed 1.25× + ranged 1.43× faster. DESPERATE (25% HP) bumps to 1.55× speed + 2× ranged + faster minion summons. Pending cooldowns clamp so the change feels immediate, not "boss politely waits 3s before the new faster attack."
• Multi-boss HP bars stack when multiple bosses are alive (e.g. Call the Boss while a mini-boss is up). Boss bar moved below the TIME/KILLS/GOLD stat tiles so it doesn't crowd the top.
• Audio system: ~15 SFX (level-up, boss spawn, slice pickup, chest open, player hurt, victory, stage clear) via Kenney CC0 packs. 3-stage looping music with 800ms cross-fades between stages. Mute toggle + volume slider in About AND pause menu, persisted to profile.
• Synth boss-warning stinger on boss spawn — sub-bass impact + rising sawtooth menace tone, plus 3 siren chirps for the final boss. Pure Web Audio, no asset file.
• Stage-clear intermission screen: Killing a stage 1/2 boss no longer auto-advances — players see a stats panel (time, kills, gold, level, slices earned) with a Continue button. Defers if a level-up is pending so reward picking happens first.
• Pause-aware timers: Boss shockwave follow-up shots, stage transitions, and the challenge-victory transition all freeze with the pause menu now. No more "I paused right after the boss telegraph and got ambushed by a delayed projectile on resume."
• 7 silently-broken synergies implemented: Dervish (+60% orbit spin), Saw Blades (orbit hits 2× faster), Lightning Rod (thunder chains for 50%), Eye of the Storm (every 4th bolt = 3× dmg), Aftershock (second shockwave), Ignition (fireball leaves burning ground), Pyromaniac (fireball splits into 4 minis).
• 3 character armors finally do what they advertise: Iron Hide's +50% damage below 30% HP actually fires. Turbo Soles' dash now damages enemies + heals. Delivery Bag's fake "knockback resist" (player doesn't take knockback in this game) replaced with +0.4 HP/s regen per level.
• Outer-arena scenery filled in — the empty 30-unit band between inner groves and the forest wall is gone. Trees, rocks, boulders, and ice spires all extend to within a few units of the arena edge.
• Cheese Whip animation overhaul: 240° ground arc with ease-out scale + 6 cheese strands flying outward + per-hit splash. Was previously a single tiny particle puff at the half-range point.
• PHG splash now auto-advances after the cinematic settles (3.8s) and cross-fades into the start screen — no tap required. Skip-on-click still works for impatient returning players.
• Mobile layout audit at 640×360 / 844×390 / 926×428 — start/pause/level-up/stage-clear all fit cleanly on the smallest Android landscape phones. Boss bar capped to clear the loadout.
• Pixel 8 Pro top-bar bug: TIME/KILLS/GOLD tiles overlapped the HP wrap. Mobile breakpoint bumped 900px → 1024px and left/transform explicitly cleared so the right-anchor actually applies.
• Music now pauses when the phone screen locks (AudioContext suspends + HTMLAudio element pauses on visibilitychange) — no more battery drain or audio bleed.
• Bug: Meatball Minigun was silently producing zero projectiles for weeks — makeBoneMesh() returns a Group, and mesh.material.clone() on a Group threw inside the tick loop. Fixed with a proper sphere meatball mesh.
• Bug: Tome of Echoes (200 slices) and Tome of Time (250 slices) appeared in level-up offers for free — tomes were skipping the unlock-gate check that weapons and armor already had. Now properly slice-locked.
• Bug: Pressing Esc to close the pause menu sometimes re-opened it instantly — Chrome's pointer-lock cooldown collided with the auto-pause-on-lock-loss path. 1.4s grace window after closePauseMenu now suppresses the spurious re-trigger.
• Bug: Flying enemies (bees, ghosts, dragons) appeared frozen mid-air when chasing the player — Quaternius Flying/ models use Fast_Flying not Walk, and the regex missed it. Walk-clip lookup now handles all 3 clip-naming conventions.

v0.6 — Arenas, Roster & UI Overhaul

• Roster: 2 new playable characters — Anchovy Archer 🏹 + Stealth Slice 🥷, each with unique weapon + armor (Tomahawk Anchovy / Sniper's Cloak, Shadow Slice / Phantom Hood)
• Arenas: 2 new unlockable arenas — Sundried Slopes 🍂 (warm autumn earth + sandstone boulders) + Frostbite Glacier 🧊 (icy mid-blue snow + tall ice spires) — progression-gated behind beating the previous on Normal+
• Inner-arena terrain: Each new arena gets real collision obstacles for tactical positioning — boulders or spires you and enemies have to weave around
• Tomes: 2 new tomes implemented — Tome of Echoes 📜 (every Nth projectile fires a free duplicate) + Tome of Time ⏳ (slows ALL enemies briefly when you take damage)
• Challenges: New 🏆 CHALLENGES menu with 5 starter handcrafted runs that pay out slices on first completion — Glass Cannon, Speed Demon, Slaughterhouse, Untouchable, Pizza Purist
• UI overhaul: Whole game rewrapped in Kenney pixel-art wood frames — buttons, panels, HUD bars, loadout slots, headers, About + Challenges + Armory cards, run-config screens
• Patch log: Converted to collapsible accordion so older entries don't dominate the About scroll
• Splash: Cross-fade between PHG bumper and the game's start screen now matches Athanor — the splash never just snaps out, both screens overlap during the 1.1s exit
• Run-config flow: Clicking START RUN now opens a dedicated arena + difficulty picker before the run begins
• Boost upgrades now cost progressively more slices per level (base × current level)
• Stage 2 + 3 enemy + boss scaling rebalanced upward (was too easy after stage 1 stripping)
• Mobile UI rebuilt: 3D char preview swapped for compact selector, landscape layout fits without scrolling, cache-busting on every deploy
• Bug: in-game character model never actually swapped when you picked a new character — entities.js was checking typeof Profile !== 'undefined' as a global instead of importing it, so slug always fell back to pizza_hero. Fixed.
• Bug: enemies were tipping forward and laying flat when touching the player — mesh.lookAt target Y used the enemy's own chest height, so close horizontal distances pulled the model's forward axis nearly vertical. Now uses mesh world Y.
• Bug: defeating the Stage 1 or 2 boss was incorrectly ending the run as a Stage 3 victory — boss entity wasn't cleaned up before the early return
• Bug: arena scenery tinting wasn't visible — KayKit GLBs ship MeshStandardMaterial that doesn't multiply color × map in this Three.js build. Materials now swap to MeshPhongMaterial when tinted.
• Bug: distant background hills bloomed into glowing white orbs against the bright sky — switched them to unlit material + darker base colors
• Bug: returning players' browsers cached old JS modules and broke on every release — build script now appends ?v=<sha> to every static module import across the whole graph

v0.5 — Character Update

• 3 new playable characters: Frost Baker, Oven Knight, Crust Runner
• Each character has a unique weapon + armor exclusive to them
• Cross-character unlock: reach 1,500 kills with a unique item equipped, then purchase it with Slices
• 5 new slice-unlockable items: Meatball Minigun, Cheese Whip, Olive Railgun, Mirror Vest, Phoenix Apron
• Stage progression: defeat the Warlord to advance to Stage 2 → 3, carrying full loadout over
• Difficulty selector: Easy / Normal / Hard / Extreme with scaled enemy stats and Slice rewards
• All 7 permanent boosts now active at run start (damage, health, armor, speed, XP, gold, revive)
• Call the Boss: spend 50 gold from pause menu to summon the final boss immediately
• Boss ranged attacks fixed — Sauce Slinger, Hammer Chef, and Warlord all fire their specials
• Stage scaling: Stage 2/3 enemy floors prevent early waves from feeling like a cooldown lap
• Camera resumes automatically after choosing from chest/level-up screens

v0.4 — Weapons & Visuals

• KayKit 3D character models for the player and skeleton enemies
• KayKit weapon models: boomerang → 3D axe, wand orbiting for Thunder Strike, round shield orbital
• New weapons: Crossbow Bolt (precision pierce), Smoke Bomb (cloud DoT), Bone Staff (skeleton conjurer)
• Thunder wand cosmetic orbits the player while equipped
• GPU resource leak fix — all meshes now properly disposed on removal (eliminates pink-screen crash)

v0.3 — Boss System

• 3-tier boss system: The Sauce Slinger (3:00), The Hammer Chef (6:00), The Warlord (10:00)
• Boss phase transitions at 50% and 25% HP (Enraged / Desperate)
• Telegraphed ranged attacks: sauce lobs, cleaver fans, homing shockwaves
• Boss HP bar, name display, and kill banners
• Victory screen with run stats
• Slice meta-currency earned from boss kills, spent in Armory

v0.2 — Core Loop

• Level-up and chest choice screens with reroll (gold + watch-ad)
• Armor and Tome systems alongside the weapon pool
• Armory screen with character, weapon, armor, tome, and boost tabs
• Synergy upgrades that unlock when prerequisite items are owned
• Mobile dual-stick floating joystick controls
• Full mobile browser support: viewport, fullscreen, no scroll

v0.1 — Initial Release

• Three.js 3D world with procedural rolling terrain and forest ring
• Pizza Delivery Hero player with animated walk/run/idle cycle
• 6 enemy types: goblin, bat, brute, skelly, imp, warlord
• Pizza Toss starter weapon with auto-aim
• Jump, dash, camera rotate
• XP gems, gold coins, chest spawns