Curse of the Loop

by sleepystudios

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.76

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.55

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.09

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.82

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.34

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.23

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.68

Curse of the Loop

Every tomb has their own curse - this one just happens to have a sense of humour. Every time you die, you're reborn but copies of you are made that repeat all your mistakes. Learn from and use your past selves to get the treasure and escape the tomb.

Controls

- WASD to move
- R to restart a level

Credits

SFX credits (edited and processed from freesound.org):
- keys - anational
- door - DWOBoyle
- pressure plate - dslrguide
- mummy attack - Slave2theLight
- mummy death - Breviceps
- footsteps - d00121058
- impale - LittleRobotSoundFactory
- boulder crunch - spookymodem
- boulder fall - magnuswaker
- snake attack - Lukeo135

Postjam changes

- fixed some areas players/enemies could get stuck in
- fixed some out of place tiles

Tags: #2d

Genres: puzzle

Tools: Unity

Comments16

Charlie Hall6 Oct 2020, 15:32

Maybe it was just me but I couldn't figure out how to get past the second screen.

red6 Oct 2020, 16:25

@charlie-hall Here's a tip: The spike traps have a cooldown after activating (the spikes are harmless when they are descending)

ANRQAngel6 Oct 2020, 20:16

Interesting and fun game, took me a while to figure some things out but still good fun, great looking, love the mechanic.. Great Job

Feraligatr7 Oct 2020, 18:57

Puzzling Game, the concept challenges you to plan forward and your next steps, I like it. The Input does feel a bit chunky sometimes tho.

Tvorojok15 Oct 2020, 22:44

interesting game, I really enjoyed walking through the corridors!

lunareffect15 Oct 2020, 23:02

The mood is on point! Loved the lighting. I'm sure the core mechanic was not easy to implement in only three days, so props for that! Only thing that I found confusing was that the AI didn't react the same for each of my lives with the snake attacking my previous selves in a seemingly random order. Still, great entry, congratulations! :)

Demuss15 Oct 2020, 23:20

Cool concept of planing your future steps. Nice entry :)

Argon15 Oct 2020, 23:23

Nice concept, reminds me of Mustach Army ! I found the puzzle a bit too tricky but congrats for the main mecanic !

Tbone16 Oct 2020, 19:37

Really well put together, was sad when I finished all the levels. Would def play more! Also looks nice.

VPhyre16 Oct 2020, 19:49

Hey your game is quite fun and smart. It is very interesting to use the mechanics of "old versions of the player", in order to solve the puzzles and complete the level. It is a very elaborate interpretation of the theme. Congratulations.

Geckoo133716 Oct 2020, 20:27

Impressive work for an interesting puzzle game. Il like how you managed the theme playing with ghosts so as to solve levels. I was very surprised by controls because all is clever and smooth. I could be improved yet and maybe more features. Well done. Thank you for your feedback. I really appreciated ++

island-jam-2-group-317 Oct 2020, 20:19

Nice game! I loved the gameplay and the mood of the game. Good job! My only complain would be the transition between levels, too bright for me ^^U

PS. The snake is a mass murderer D: xD

Katherine Stark17 Oct 2020, 20:57

I couldn't get past the level with the rolling boulder and the two pressure plates. I tried standing someone on each plate and nothing seemed to happen, and I couldn't figure out any other way of progressing.

Otherwise, nice theme and mood, it's definitely a solid base. My only suggestion would be to put in a soft restart button which ends the current run without having to find a way to kill yourself.

PixelPaw24 Oct 2020, 11:45

I had a similar idea with my game. I like your implementation. Mood/Setting fit and the theme was executed well.

jk500024 Oct 2020, 12:36

Overall a simple and fun little puzzle game. Well done.

Jam37324 Oct 2020, 14:42

Excellent game and so well polished in such little time! The art, lighting and music (as well as lots of great animation work) created such a brilliant mood for this game. While I've seen this time looping emchanic before, I've never seen it like this, used for a top-down dungeon crawler, and it works great, super fun to come up with strategies over mutiple lives.

Only complaint would be low framerate, especially when multiple player ghosts are on screen, but I have a 2014 laptop so might just be on my end.

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