Loop the Loop

by bajtix
co-authored: @walkanfl
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.61
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.35
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.80
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.91
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.81
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.57
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.98

Loop the Loop

is a small rhythm game. You control a war plane equiped with a turret, but it has one major flaw: it's steering is broken!. You are going in loops and can do very little about it!
Select abilities and use them to the beat, otherwise the plane will fall apart.

ssgame1.png

Controls

Use WASD or Arrow Keys to select the ability;
+ Top: turret
+ Bottom: repair
+ Left: booster
+ Right: steer

Space or LMB to Use (only works on beat).
ssgame2.png

Credits

@bajtix (me) - coding, art, music, bugs, terrible design choices

@walkanfl - art, sfx and mental support

Note

Linux and Mac builds are not tested! Please send feedback if they arent't working correctly or files are missing, I don't own a Mac (Linux seems to work, tested on Ubuntu)

screenshot
Genres: rhythm
Tools: Unity

Comments22

Valkija
Valkija6 Oct 2020, 13:38
Really enjoyed! High rating all around, I really liked the innovative take on the theme and the gameplay - took some getting used to but flowed really nicely once I had the controls down.
Bajtix
Bajtixauthor6 Oct 2020, 13:43
Thanks for the feedback! I'm relly glad you liked it, it was literally the third game I tried to make for this jam and didn't really have time for playtesting @valkija
Aquanim6 Oct 2020, 13:52
A solid concept and really well executed. Definitely requires some practice to get good at it. I made it to the first creatively named checkpoint :)

Every once in a while it seems like the rhythm dots "run out" and then suddenly reappear again but it's pretty rare and I didn't lose many beats to it.
Macmist
Macmist6 Oct 2020, 13:53
It does not seem to work on a mac, it keeps saying that the file cannot be opened. Too bad, from the pictures I really love the style. I'll try to open it on a windows later, and I'll update my feedback, I'm super curious about it
Bajtix
Bajtixauthor6 Oct 2020, 15:46
@aquanim thanks for you rating! Yes, the beat does run out but I didn't have time to patch this bug. Maybe i'll try to fix it.

@macmist sorry! I don't own a Mac and always had trouble building for the platform. I'll try to fix it but I don't really understand the way Mac executes apps.
Kpedatte
Kpedatte6 Oct 2020, 16:25
Hey nice game. I really enjoyed to get an ingame tutorial! Congrats
hansj6 Oct 2020, 16:31
Took me a while to get it, but I really like the concept once I got hang of it! It's a bit repetative, and I got a bit dizzy, but all inn all a solid game in my opinion!
melvinng6 Oct 2020, 16:33
Great game with good application to theme
mr forty two6 Oct 2020, 16:40
Great game. Took a while to get the hang of, and I am terrible at rythm, but fun.
Edalbung
Edalbung6 Oct 2020, 16:45
Cool beat concept, even if I'm not a specialist of rhythm game!

Here are my feedback:
_Positive points
- Nice graphic style
- Clever usage of the theme, and it goes the same for the rhythm style...

_Negative points
- ...it is maybe my fault but it was hard for me to hit well on the beat.
- The Shift input is not a great choice with a repetitive behavior input (skip of the pop-up), indeed it may trigger the remanence Windows input.

Overall: good work!
Bajtix
Bajtixauthor6 Oct 2020, 18:54
thanks for all the the feedback, @kpedatte @hansj @melvinng @mr-forty-two @edalbung!
> The Shift input is not a great choice with a repetitive behavior input (skip of the pop-up), indeed it may trigger the remanence Windows input.

You are right, I should probably change the key.
I have the shift functions disabled and forgot about it.
Baran
Baran7 Oct 2020, 21:00
This was great, I could not get it at the first read of instructions but eventually got better at playing, thanks for the enjoyable experience! Also, the art and music were really on point!
Eugenik
Eugenik9 Oct 2020, 18:37
Really nice game
Steve741110 Oct 2020, 18:50
Really nice concept. It would be nice to see this concept expanded on.
sanojian
sanojian10 Oct 2020, 18:50
Really fun. I wish you could replenish ammo and repair meters. Also, is there a max speed? I feel like I wasted a lot of clicks trying to go faster
Kisamegr
Kisamegr10 Oct 2020, 18:52
Enjoyed the game. Maybe a better tutorial popup at the start explaining how to play would be nice. I don't know if I am just dumb, but it took me 3 deaths to figure out how to play xD
Theogen
Theogen10 Oct 2020, 21:21
Nice rhythm-based game, very original idea! I think a little explanation of all the abilities would be nice, I still don't quite understand all of them (except for hammer). And I played on Linux by the way, the game runs great!
Bajtix
Bajtixauthor11 Oct 2020, 08:47
Thanks for the ratings! @baran @eugenik @steve7411 @kisamegr @theogen
@sanojian Yes, there is. The booster increases your speed to a constant value (+5 the normal speed), and doesn't allow you to go faster than that.
Jam37315 Oct 2020, 11:58
Really weird and interesting mechanics, that all come together in a resource management/rhythm game hybrid! Big fan of this after I fully understood all the complexities. Undoing progress with the loops is a really cool and unintuitive mechanic (I mean that in a good way!). Really makes you think hard about what abilities to equip when. I think any great rhythm game should break your brain a bit by overloading it with new info and this certainly achieves that.

Anyway visuals and audio were also great, maybe tutorialisation of the different abilities could be better, took me a while to even understand what steering was, let alone what it actually did.
Bajtix
Bajtixauthor15 Oct 2020, 14:52
@jam373 Thanks! You are right, the tutorial isn't the best, but it was done in the last few hours because I started making it on the almost-last day. I'm glad you liked the audio, I'm not a music producer and this is the first song that I've made with FL studio.
daitli
daitli16 Oct 2020, 02:33
This was a great submission! Great ratings all around for sure. You fit the theme pretty well and I loved the graphics!
Cole and Jordan Studios
Cole and Jordan Studios25 Oct 2020, 01:32
Very interesting! Unique gameplay, even if it was really difficult, once I figured it out, it was really fun. The fun seems to be in juggling all of the different things at once. Great submission!

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