LoopTown by Pandamander
LoopTown is a short mouse-click puzzle game.
A magical curse is causing this town to repeat 10 seconds at a time.
Click to interact with the people and items. Can you find the sequence to break the loop?
Time to beat: ~3 minutes.
🎮🕹️ Play online on itch.io 🕹️🎮

🛠️ Tools used - Unity 2020.3 for Mac - JummBox for Music - Aesprite for art - Sfxr for sound effects
| Link | https://drive.google.com/file/d/13Z4kLNdCwBak9RtgOzzUrSs2KiIrnrDy/view?usp=sharing |
| Link | https://pandamander.itch.io/looptown |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/looptown |
Ratings
| Overall | 236th | 3.438⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 376th | 2.925⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 320th | 3.1⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 145th | 3.813⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 145th | 3.738⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 193th | 3.325⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 150th | 3.053⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 218th | 3.276⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 6🗳️ | 9🗨️ |
One issue is that some of your text was too long and got cut off below the box, at least on my computer. And of course it might be nice to have some kind of reminder of the progress we made, since 10 seconds is a short time to execute this fully. But I really like what you've done here!
Like @mrwarranty I couldn't read all of the text, which made it much harder to figure out the right sequence.
The game is graphically and musically pleasing and it was pretty fun to explore the story - which was pretty creative.
Good work overall.
- 10 seconds is a bit short for this much reading and this much puzzle. I found this too in playtest but decided to stick to the theme. Probably would have been better as 20 seconds.
- SFX a bit loud, I agree. I'm not really a fan of the sounds and would have liked to do more here
- Some of the text went off the bottom, small fix but meh sad it didn't get caught before end of the compo
It was an honor to compete with you all!
I think a sequence of smaller screens to solve in 10 seconds would work better (the first in the sequence can be very easy, the last one maybe as hard as the one screen in the game now).
EDIT: some messages seemed incomplete, couldn't find a way to scroll/see the rest of the message.
Well done!