LoopTown by Pandamander

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made by Pandamander for Ludum Dare 51 (COMPO)

640.png 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 🕹️🎮

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🛠️ Tools used - Unity 2020.3 for Mac - JummBox for Music - Aesprite for art - Sfxr for sound effects

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🗨️

Feedback

Xofs
03. Oct 2022 · 00:58 UTC
interesting puzzle concept, cool
tengusheath
03. Oct 2022 · 01:04 UTC
I like the art and music, I'm not very good at memorizing the sequence though.
Kevin Du
03. Oct 2022 · 01:07 UTC
like ur Relaxing art and audio. well done!
Castitatis
03. Oct 2022 · 01:09 UTC
I didn't manage to finish it, really interesting though, the relaxing music helps with the stressful clicking XD
LDJam user 179040
03. Oct 2022 · 01:09 UTC
I've thought about making a game like this and I really like your execution. The music was catchy and the graphics are great! I'll have to try out JummBox.
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!
Sky
03. Oct 2022 · 01:11 UTC
Love the artwork and background music, very solid submission given that you scrapped your original!
retrowillgames
03. Oct 2022 · 01:18 UTC
Fun version of the theme. I think I would need a little bit more time to be able to finish it though. I really like the vibe of the music and art together. Nice work especially considering you had to restart last night!
Delightfullymad
03. Oct 2022 · 01:37 UTC
Very cute and cool take on the theme, managed to finish it in a few minutes. Good work!
Pennycook
03. Oct 2022 · 02:20 UTC
When I saw the screenshot I wondered how you'd possibly be able to run between all those people in 10 seconds... Making this a static point-and-click game was a great move! :thumbsup:

Like @mrwarranty I couldn't read all of the text, which made it much harder to figure out the right sequence.
waffleworksgames
03. Oct 2022 · 03:04 UTC
Love the art, nice job finishing a game after restarting so late!
Xorel
03. Oct 2022 · 04:46 UTC
I liked this! Bite sized puzzle where there's some memorization but once you start to see more of the story, you can piece together what you need to do. Loved the use of the theme!
DavidBradbury
03. Oct 2022 · 05:50 UTC
Fun little puzzle, well done graphics, I enjoyed it! Audio balance was a little off for me with the sfx being much louder and the music quieter. But good work!
Chuckiee
03. Oct 2022 · 05:56 UTC
I didn't want to read any text because I only had 10 sec. So random clicks until I get what they want was my way of playing. Cute art, good tune but I think theme with genre didn't match well.
blk_dg
03. Oct 2022 · 06:36 UTC
Great idea, simple and efficient. Didn't manage to finish it though, as Chuckiee it was all random clicks. Maybe it would have been cool is certain steps would stay from loop to loop. But still a solid entry
LDJam user 258850
03. Oct 2022 · 08:37 UTC
I managed to get the sword in the stone \o/ I love it! ^^ such a cool idea and done really well, 10 seconds is so short I nearly started writing down all the connections but then I managed to beat it from memory :) great game!
StesProject
03. Oct 2022 · 10:39 UTC
Interesting concept, maybe a little bit difficult to do in 10 seconds 😁
LDJam user 226027
03. Oct 2022 · 11:34 UTC
I like the quality and playability. It is maybe a little bit too difficult puzzle to solve in the given time, though.
mvasko2
03. Oct 2022 · 12:28 UTC
Nice little puzzle game. I was constantly in a rush to read the text as 10 seconds is not a lot of time - and some click sequences were pretty long.

The game is graphically and musically pleasing and it was pretty fun to explore the story - which was pretty creative.

Good work overall.
Dexkill
03. Oct 2022 · 13:04 UTC
Cool puzzle game, the sound could be mixed a bit more, also a menu would be cool to set sound settings.
🎤 Pandamander
03. Oct 2022 · 13:24 UTC
Thank you so much everyone for the excellent feedback! Seems like some areas to improve:
- 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!
mbrezu
03. Oct 2022 · 13:36 UTC
Fun idea. I need to come back with pen and paper :-)

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.
LDJam user 299751
03. Oct 2022 · 14:14 UTC
Very cozy game. I'd really like to see more levels of this.
thegamearchitect
03. Oct 2022 · 15:32 UTC
Nice job
Flamus
03. Oct 2022 · 15:43 UTC
Nice simple game, fun to play again and again till you find the solution:)
Vhalenn
03. Oct 2022 · 18:40 UTC
Waow this game is really cool and the idea is innovative ! Cool memory style game !
pinnyo
03. Oct 2022 · 19:41 UTC
Maybe adding a few seconds each time you make a successful choice would help with the time being too short?
TheseusInABottle
04. Oct 2022 · 03:57 UTC
As someone who is a little slow to read definitely took me a hot minute to be able to read all the text in the game, but once I saw everything once it just became a matter of executing which wasn't to terribly hard.
BoOdbarbak
04. Oct 2022 · 19:44 UTC
Good mini puzzle game. I like the concept of learning what to do progressively and found it quite satisfying to get to the solution. And there's a bit of story telling to ^^ I found it a bit stressful to begin with but then realized I didn't need to do a sequence with all the characters and objects to win! Cool simple music. It is stuck in my head now, well done! :rofl:
karbirus
04. Oct 2022 · 22:09 UTC
it's a good concept, but I wish I could have some time to read what the characters say x-x
SLEEPYMENACE
07. Oct 2022 · 16:45 UTC
Fun little game! A little bit shorter and more straight forward than I expected, but I enjoyed it.

Well done!
digital bacon
11. Oct 2022 · 11:21 UTC
What a fun game! Love the graphics style and the frantic memory scramble to click the right things in the right order. Kept missing out by seconds, but that is kinda the point :rofl: Well done!