Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD47 → Looping for lööps
By steffo, sensei, Viktya and cookie-chr
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 975 | 3.37 | 50 | |
| Fun | 750 | 3.38 | 50 | |
| Innovation | 1089 | 3.05 | 49 | |
| Theme | 1269 | 3.09 | 49 | |
| Graphics | 842 | 3.50 | 50 | |
| Audio | 1 | |||
| Humor | 321 | 3.45 | 50 | |
| Mood | 881 | 3.31 | 47 |
Great job, would loop again. This is such a hilarious concept and I love how you can alter the level while also trying to perform well on the platforming aspect of it. The changing loop color is a nice touch, congratulations!
Cute little game! I didn't get too far but the art is fun and controls work well!
nice work. A bit strange that the cat moves with the platform mid air. Neat Idea. Would like to see some more animations for the lasers :D Great effort
Your game is fun but is reaaally hard. I was stuck at where your second screenshot is, not knowing how to disable the laser. But I'm pretty bad at platformer, so it ma explain why I didn't manage to finish the game.
Good job on the graphics and mechanics!
Beautiful game! But I really missed the sounds
nice meme :):) ofc, great work!
Funny game ! But i can't see all the top and the bottom of the scene at the same time...
Interesting Game! Cool Graphics and Music, and to make games out of memes is just :loop: :cat: :ok_hand:
I found the button activation a bit weird and annoying, because everything was always moving and it was quite difficult to hit them correctly. What do you think of having to press a random key (O,7,L, ...) to activate a button?
Cute kitten! I liked the idea, although the way it was implemented was a bit too trial and error for me. I often had to replay the whole thing because I didn't quite grasp what the buttons do in time haha. The music is cool, but I wish it didn't repeat all the way from the start everytime I replay the game. Platforming is solid and tight, and optional collectibles are always an nice addition. Cool game!
@idan-rooze:
> Great job, would loop again. This is such a hilarious concept and I love how you can alter the level while also trying to perform well on the platforming aspect of it.
Thanks for your comment!
> The changing loop color is a nice touch, congratulations!
hehe, we loved the randomly-generated loop colors too :D
really nice entry I loved the mechanic that the lengths of your jumps depends on the speed at which you are going.
@louiejams:
> Cute little game! I didn’t get too far but the art is fun and controls work well!
We might have made it a bit too hard... Admittedly, I think we spent too little time on the level design phase...
@kaisenthegreatone:
> A bit strange that the cat moves with the platform mid air.
What do you mean...? The cat shouldn't be affected by the conveyor belt while in mid air... did you find a bug, or have I misunderstood the sentence?
@chocolat-endive:
> Your game is fun but is reaaally hard.
I noticed that from the comments :P
> Good job on the graphics and mechanics!
Thanks! :smile:
@steffo You understood me correctly. The cat gets affected mid air... I don't know what I did, but it somehow happens... still a great game neverthenless
@ianmust:
> But I really missed the sounds
I agree! We planned (and programmed!) a whole system to syncronize the game obstacles and sounds to the game music, but we didn't manage to implement sounds before the deadline :/
@mariussomka
> nice meme :):) ofc, great work!
Thanks haha
@duanra:
> But i can’t see all the top and the bottom of the scene at the same time…
What's your screen resolution? The game should be sized 1280x720. Try going in full screen with F11 if you're playing in the browser.
@pleyad:
> I found the button activation a bit weird and annoying, because everything was always moving and it was quite difficult to hit them correctly.
It was one of the experimental mechanics we tried, we wanted it to be kind of similar to clicking the moving circles in osu!...
It probably didn't work out really well, though, if you found it annoying :joy:
@scharma:
> I liked the idea, although the way it was implemented was a bit too trial and error for me. I often had to replay the whole thing because I didn’t quite grasp what the buttons do in time haha.
You can probably cheat with F6 and F7 if you find it too hard :)
@heho:
> I loved the mechanic that the lengths of your jumps depends on the speed at which you are going
I liked designing that puzzle a lot too :)
Control is a a little weird, it jumps at a relatively slow speed but falls very quick. Hard to climb 1 block high. Fail = Replay as a penalty is too heavy. You should probably make player lose some loops instead of kill (like Sonic?) or base on health point when touching the saws. Though I don't know what to do for the chasing laser. Theme seems irrelevant from the jam's perspective. But the level design is pretty good. I didn't expect almost every next puzzle. And having to solve dozens of puzzles in time reminds me of WarioWare.
@unluckyninja:
> Control is a a little weird, it jumps at a relatively slow speed but falls very quick. Hard to climb 1 block high.
If you release up while jumping you fall down faster... You should **Hold ↑** to make higher jumps... Have you tried that? :)
> Fail = Replay as a penalty is too heavy. > You should probably make player lose some loops instead of kill (like Sonic?) or base on health point when touching the saws.
I agree, but time was short and it was either that or absolutely nothing, so we went for that. I love the Sonic rings idea, there's even the similarity with the rings and the loops!
> Theme seems irrelevant from the jam’s perspective.
If you weren't able to jump correctly you might have missed that the levels loop after a while, and you can take different paths there. You can see the "loop-clock" in the upper-right corner.
> And having to solve dozens of puzzles in time reminds me of WarioWare.
The game might have been unconsciously inspired by Wario Land 4, as I love that game, but I didn't think of that explicitly.
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fihc2ONQ5v0)
@steffo I know I can hold up (I read the description), it's just feel werid comparing to other well-known platformers... Yep because of the difficulty I didn' make it to the later part of the game :P . I will try with the cheat later.
Oof, that's hard. The cat is so adorable, and the level manipulation was really neat, if a little esoteric.
@unluckyninja oh no no no you will regret it lmao
You're free to use them, but I think you have more chances to finish it without the "cheats". They really make it harder (at least for me xD), if the scene was intended to go faster or slower, you will feel it. Good luck hehe
Initially I thought it was 'just another platformer' (Nothing wrong with that), but once I realized the what a big role the interaction with the mouse played, I was kinda blown away. It made for a whole different experience than I expected! I must sadly admit I did not beat the game, but I think I made it quite far. Oh also - Loved the effect with the laser chasing you that the obstacles actually blocked it.
Great job, thanks for sharing!
Fun but really hard game. The graphics also look very nice.
Haha, adorable game with a funny concept. Gameplay was innovative, having to use the mouse to activate stuff while platforming was a new but fun challenge. Stressful, frustrating, and enjoyable!
Challenging, yet fun. Well thought idea with the switches and platforms.
Really cool the idea of platforming and quick decision on clicking the right buttons. great job!
Man, I love this - perfect job on audio!
Audio and graphic are very awsome! Maybe game is a little bit too hard, but is very funny :) Maybe jumping could be more responsible, and more predictable - but maybe for make game more difficult it is ok. 5/5!
@Eugenik, audio actually comes from incompetech.com , but I suppose this means we chose the right soundtrack! :)
Awesome sounds and graphics! The idea with the buttons is quite nice and also that they can be traps. But the "extra-extra-EXTRA" speed thing killed me every time. Once I managed to slow down again, but I was already in another trap and so the laser got me ^^.
I think you have the cat-lover and fruit loops loving market cornered with this game. Well done.
Very fun game! I actually played through it a few times.
I got only 68 loops. Nice work. I would love to see more levels of that one. I liked how you made some loops impossible to get. Overall great.
Very nicely done in pretty much all aspects! The only thing that's a problem is... that I'm a noob and I can't reach very far. :D Can we have some checkpoints please? :D
I have acquired many lööps. Fun game!
@samdwester @pulni @sli @dongle Thank you! We are happy to hear you liked the game! :D
@sli wait, that's an unusual and interesting opinion!
Why did you like the impossible loops?
Usually when you play Jump&Run games one of the objectives is to collect all items. Thats why I find making collectibles impossible to get interesting. I don't know this for a fact, but in a sense it removes the urgency to collect them all and at the same time if you want to be challenged you still can try take as much as possible.I feel it benefits both type if players.
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Took me a while but I did it! Lööp cat is free once more! I really don't know how you're supposed to collect all the loops, but I wasn't going for them. I constantly keep missing the buttons.
Honestly I can't say much more. Nice graphics and proven gameplay.
What a nightmare for the cat! I hope you don’t put your cats through such exercises? 🤸♂️😹🙀
The detailed love to your graphics is a charm. The puzzles got me trapped a couple of times. I stopped to gather the lööps so I could finish the level. It was not enough motivating to pick them up. Maybe with the help of sounds and a nice animation would have motivated me more. Nevertheless, your game feels complete which is a great success! Applause to your submission!
I like that the cat is literally stuck in a loop. It was a bit too difficult for me.
Very cool music. The best I've heard in Ludum Dare Entries so far.
It's a fun idea to control a cat and the factory buttons at the same time.
I managed to go quite far, but I had not the incentive to retry more times, because of the lack of checkpoints. It's a little frustrating to have to restart from the beginning.
Very cool game, I like the concept especially with the classic j'n'r + controlling the buttons! It might have been a little bit too difficult for me right away; maybe a little less difficult obstacles or a chance to getting to know them with some sort of checkpoints or other "rewards" in between would be an idea for a player like me? The soundtrack is great, I love the baseline!