Loop Guy by LarrySeinfeld
Welcome to our LD 47 submission. You play as Frederick, a simple man who had a chiropractor appointment in the morning before going to work. From there Frederick has to live his life and survive all the trials and tribulations it throws at him.
Controls:
- W - Move forward
- S - Move backwards
- A - Lean/turn left
- D - lean/turn right
- Q - Extend left hand
- E - Extend right hand
- Hold Shift - go faster
- F - skip text
- Esc - pause menu
- Mouse - move camera
Levels in Order:
- Chiropractor
- Lobby (watch out for that deadly rotator door)
- City 1 (go in front of the work building to load)
- Work Office (Hit Frederick's PC with a hand)
- City 2 (go in front of the pub to load)
- Da Pub, yo (Select a companion with a hand)
- City 3 (Bring the companion back home)
- Final Level
| Youtube | https://larryseinfeld.itch.io/loop-guy |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/loop-guy |
Ratings
| Overall | 231th | 3.956⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 24th | 4.235⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 105th | 4.059⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 400th | 3.956⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1172th | 3.147⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 225th | 3.868⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 8th | 4.544⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 392th | 3.773⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 35🗳️ | 44🗨️ |
While the level design has some good ideas, it has some issues, and I was confused on where to go a lot of the time. I was surprised at the length of the game, and I'm not even sure I made it to the end? I was at the street level, but where were you supposed to go?
Also, the revolving door was perhaps a tad too deadly haha.
Great entry! Although my back hurts now.
Only issue: Why do I explode if I touch the revolving door!?!
We definitely aimed too big and had to cut corners - I added a guide in the description on what the levels are and some tips on what to do. The ending is worth getting, I promise you that...
Also yeah that revolving door is a test of skill. Maybe we went overboard. Whoops!
We really wanted a to add a little text on the screen to better indicate what to do in each segment of the game, but we ran out time. We actually ran out of time on a lot of stuff (definitely bit off more than we could chew with this one), but I'm just glad you could get some enjoyment out of it.
And yeah the revolving door might have been a little harsh, but we thought it was realistic that if you touch the side of a revolving door you explode.
Sadly a car hit me on the way home from work and launched me into a wall where i got stuck, but until then i was having a blast.
Also I think i managed to cheese the office maze by squeezing through some gaps im not sure were supposed to be there
Honestly, quite cool game :D
1.The sensitivity is too sensitive for the camera
2. The first level coudive had an tutorial
3. The elevator button was kinda too hard to press.
4. The elevator closed too fast.
Overall, Fun and Funny game!
-WitekWitek
I needed to check the soluce because I was stuck in the city.
Nice story
The gameplay is silly, but consistent. It makes you think! The music and sounds are phenomenal, the graphics are functional but charming, this game has it all.
Edit: Ok actually there are some things that could be better:
- The camera gets too close to you when it's close to a wall, it gets very twitchy inside the elevator. It's better suited for outdoor levels.
- In the city level it's very easy to be launched inside a building by a car.
@nolife-m Lol! Yup! Full stupid, just like us! I'm glad that's your cup of tea!
If you like physics based games this is a must play ld game in my opinion. I really liked it and played it all the way through altough I felt like the slippery stairs were way too hard!
I also sometimes got stuck on buildings when I got hit by a car (luckily this only happened 2 times)
and finally as other people have said, the camera goes through a lot of walls :)
They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.
Overall, super cool and creative concept!
@crazybot Perfect - it felt like a fever dream making it too. I'm glad you had fun playing it and thanks for the feedback! Sorry about the stairs :) I'll hold back next time
@kszaku Thank you so much! Hopefully you got a good laugh out of it.
Also screw that work dude. We did our best. It was hard pushing that pc button.
Great job, would roll again.
@fraanns I love to hear that - it's the best we could hope for :)
@joror Thanks for all the compliments, I'm super happy you had a good time with it.
@amin-jk000 You're too nice - thank you so much for playing!!
That music track, the level design, the character and the sheer loopyness of it all.
One gripe, I tried so much stuff to advance the first bit of dialogue in the intro (click, space, enter, WASD, E) ... luckily I saw it was F on the itch page. I wish there was an onscreen instruction for that ... otherwise I may have given up and missed the glory of Frederick's journey.
I'm so glad this exists!