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A tale of Loopism by Arthurds

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made by Arthurds for Ludum Dare 47 (JAM)

The cyborgking has hacked the mainframe.

Are you skilled enought to escape ?

loop.png

Please read the controls first

Controls:

-WASD to move

-Shift to run

-MOUSE to look

-SPACE to jump

-SPACE in the air to double jump

-Hold Space to jump higher

-ESC or P to pause

Adjust mouse sensitivity and volume on the pause screen

After a certain point:

-HOLD LEFT MOUSE BUTTON to use left arm

-HOLD RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON to use right arm

SPOILER FREE LINK FOR WINDOWS AND LINUX

https://arthurds.itch.io/a-tale-of-loopism

This game may be a bit too hard, so its ok to not finish it, but if you do, post screenshot of you on the ouside of the loop and I will add you to the pro gamer list below! (please don't try to cheat)

Control a lovely robot!

loop 1 player.png

loop 2 level.png

Face challenges!

loop 3 challenge.png

Swing around!

loop 4 swing.png

loop 5 swing 2.png

--Programer--

Arthur Sousa

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthursousagamedev/

--Sound Designer--

Eduardo Kolody

edukolody@gmail.com

MLG PRO GAMER LIST!!!

How to get in:

Beat the game (not on easy mode) and post your final screen with your final time on it!

Current Number of Winners: 15

Congrats to @ausstein for taking the first spot!

Congrats to @apos for taking the second spot!

Congrats to PopDaddyGames for taking the third spot!

Congrats to @sirpyrolie for taking the fourth spot!

Congrats to ArrowTheFighter for taking the fifth spot!

Congrats to BuriedThings for taking the sixth spot!

Congrats to fatsheep__ for taking the seventh spot!

Congrats to @parasite210 for taking the eighth spot!

Congrats to pvplayz27 for taking the ninth spot!

Congrats to @wendel-scardua for taking the tenth spot!

Congrats to @trypants for taking the eleventh spot!

Congrats to kuviman for taking the twelveth spot!

Congrats to @mmiddleton saphirako for taking the thirteenth spot!

Congrats to @codertrevor for taking the fourteenth spot!

Congrats to @kaldrin for taking the fifteenth spot!

Version log

1.01 - Added easy mode, a very small mode that changes very little in the game and took me 15 minutes to make. Due to me watching streamers and realising no one made pass level 3, I made this so more people could see all the love I putted into this game.

1.02 - Added a speedrun timer. Since we were having so much fun with this game on stream and with the community, we added a speedrun timer so we could have a bit more fun racing each other!

Youtube https://arthurds.itch.io/a-tale-of-loopism
Youtube https://arthurds.itch.io/a-tale-of-loopism
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/a-tale-of-loopism

Ratings

Overall 378th 3.808⭐ 80🧑‍⚖️
Fun 301th 3.778⭐ 81🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 712th 3.418⭐ 81🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1068th 3.353⭐ 80🧑‍⚖️
Audio 202th 3.892⭐ 81🧑‍⚖️
Humor 138th 3.903⭐ 79🧑‍⚖️
Mood 375th 3.799⭐ 74🧑‍⚖️
Given 63🗳️ 82🗨️

Feedback

ConnorThompson
05. Oct 2020 · 16:34 UTC
Cool graphics, really like the stylised approach you have gone for here!
PatrickRMC
05. Oct 2020 · 18:37 UTC
I enjoyed the voice acting and audio a lot. Sadly I didn't finish the game as it was a bit difficult but it was pretty fun even so, good graphics as well, especially the legs and arms of the player. Nice submission!
Ausstein
05. Oct 2020 · 23:17 UTC
![Beat_It.png](///raw/7a3/22/z/387f9.png)
![Beat_It2.png](///raw/7a3/22/z/387fb.png)
Ausstein
05. Oct 2020 · 23:25 UTC
By far the easiest game I played so far this LD.
The mechanics were absolutely boring and the voice acting was terrible.
It was not at all funny. Overall just a bad game.

Only thing positive was the red lasers. They were super easy to make out and the hitboxes were very clear!

p.S.
the opposite of everything i just said
Apos
06. Oct 2020 · 00:26 UTC
![unknown.png](///raw/6f7/61/z/389f2.png)

Yay! I won! I gave you maximum points because that was a fun game. Pretty challenging and you put a lot of effort into it. The ending was smart.

This would be nice for speed runs.

I didn't find any bugs. Controls felt pretty good once I got the hang of them.
twobitjen
06. Oct 2020 · 00:50 UTC
This one is a lot of fun!. The look of it was great. I did not finish it all the way yet but i think i will go back and play it some more.
Victor Hallock
06. Oct 2020 · 00:52 UTC
Great job! Tons of fun, love the artistic immersion on the entire thing!
radow
06. Oct 2020 · 02:38 UTC
I really enjoyed the VA! As a lover of jumping puzzles I also enjoyed the game itself quite a bit, but the part where you lose your legs and need to carfulyl balance the force inputs has killed me every time... yet.
🎤 Arthurds
06. Oct 2020 · 02:49 UTC
@radow you can do it! I believe in you! Thank you for playing!
Codeman1010
06. Oct 2020 · 03:19 UTC
I loved the robot, he is my child
cyphyrGriffon
06. Oct 2020 · 05:24 UTC
The meat grinder just keeps getting me! I've opened the game a couple of times now to try to beat it, and I know will. If not for the stellar gameplay, then at least for voice acting. Good work on this submission!
klianc09
06. Oct 2020 · 10:18 UTC
Very hard, but that's okay. Got past the spinny thing, but the next section where you have to bounce around is just too hard with lag.
marcmagus
06. Oct 2020 · 13:49 UTC
Absolutely love that little robot.
Dominium11
06. Oct 2020 · 14:06 UTC
Audio is lovely, absolutely lovely, the graphics gets a little tiring on the eyes but its also neat, great fun!
TheBookSnail
06. Oct 2020 · 14:12 UTC
robot, music, and voices are great. can't wait for timer. i would have liked a little more light, the dark shadows under the platforms were hard on my eyes. seeing people struggle with the controls makes it feel like there needs to be a tutorial to make sure people can use high jump, double jump, shift correctly.
Aterlamia
06. Oct 2020 · 14:41 UTC
great game, love the sound and floppyness of teh chracters limbs. Also great voice acting. I did not get to end but might come back to play this later
🎤 Arthurds
06. Oct 2020 · 15:13 UTC
@aterlamia @cyphyrgriffon I just patched the spinning level! It should be a bit easier now if you wanna try again sometime, tahnks again for playing! Also added a speedrun timer.
Ausstein
06. Oct 2020 · 15:41 UTC
@arthurds So go and post your speedrun. Challange accepted xD
🎤 Arthurds
06. Oct 2020 · 15:42 UTC
@ausstein I will be streaming it in a bit actually, just finishing reviewing some games from yesterday
Esseisso
06. Oct 2020 · 15:49 UTC
Great game. The soundtrack and the FXs are just on point. Good job!
🎤 Arthurds
06. Oct 2020 · 15:55 UTC
![hightscore.png](///raw/3de/c2/z/39148.png)

@ausstein GOOD FUCKING LUCK
Dizzy
06. Oct 2020 · 16:17 UTC
Vou comentar em pt pq eu vi q você é br haha. Cara excelente! Curti demais as mecanicas do jogo, ta bem polido e o personagem é bem cativante. Nice!
🎤 Arthurds
06. Oct 2020 · 16:28 UTC
![hightscore.png](///raw/3de/c2/z/3917f.png)
Jake Marks
06. Oct 2020 · 17:32 UTC
I'm not good enough to get very far in this. Would have loved to try the extended hands thing from the screenshot. Played it on my stream, here's the VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/762084590
🎤 Arthurds
06. Oct 2020 · 18:09 UTC
@jake-marks I made the spinning lazers level easier on the updated version if you fell like trying again. Thanks for playing!
Ausstein
06. Oct 2020 · 18:54 UTC
I am always ahead of your runs up to level 6. Then I am just really bad with the magnetic arms...

![Speedrun.png](///raw/7a3/22/z/3929c.png)
Odyze
06. Oct 2020 · 20:50 UTC
Damn I'm so bad at it, but i dig the idea and the music :)
FireGamer3
06. Oct 2020 · 23:03 UTC
Pretty cool game! very difficult but great!
spacey3d
07. Oct 2020 · 20:09 UTC
Omg I could barely even do the easy mode. I am not a pro gamer. The voice acting was soooo good!
🎤 Arthurds
07. Oct 2020 · 20:48 UTC
@spacey3d did you finish easy mode ?
Phlip45
08. Oct 2020 · 00:46 UTC
Love the voice acting and the graphics work well. There was some odd bit of physics where some jumps felt like you had to push into the edge of the platform to get on top of them, but if you did it sort of makes you do a jump or the physics pushes you up off the corner. It was a real problem for the third room with the spinning lasers around the central tower cause it took away my ability to jump since I was just floating in the air.
Roikku
08. Oct 2020 · 02:43 UTC
Bumping into platform walls causes some uncomfortable issues with jump effectiveness or registration. Death cam could be better, as it's often stuck in too zoomed in mode to notice that you actually died (or in ball-mode there's no indication of death). Difficulty curve ramps up maybe a little too fast with all the spinny and wall-like lasers, potentially preventing some players from seeing the content later. Some spinny lasers also clip through the platforms in an inconvenient way. Great music and platforming though. 9/10 voice acting. :) Great job in general!
blotosaur
08. Oct 2020 · 03:45 UTC
nice game! Feels like i'm fighting the controls a bit too much. Hook is unpredictable. Got to the end, but couldn't find the "real" end. Really complete game. Great job!
lectvs
08. Oct 2020 · 05:54 UTC
As others have said, this game is pretty difficult, but I felt like I was getting better the more I played. The music was pretty good, and I loved the voice acting! Didn't get to finish it on stream, but had fun regardless. You can check out the VOD if you'd like: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/763774333 (1:57:15)
sirpyrolie
08. Oct 2020 · 08:07 UTC
![i won.png](///raw/6f2/83/z/39a0b.png)
This is a good game. The best part was the swinging part. It's difficult, but every time you fail you can understand the mechanics better. I would love to see the robot as a plush toy.
🎤 Arthurds
08. Oct 2020 · 13:29 UTC
Congrats to @sirpyrolie for taking the world record speedrun! (On the non glitchless category mind you xD)
James Clark
08. Oct 2020 · 13:37 UTC
Excellent and well polished game. I had a lot of fun playing this one. Great entry!
Coding4rtist
08. Oct 2020 · 18:03 UTC
Really cool game. Pretty unique mechanic and I'm impressed by the procedural animations! The voiceover was hilarious! Graphcs and music are nice. With some improvements to the graphics and some more maps I can see this becoming a commercial product.


After finishing the game the first time (don't show the time cause it's quite ridiculous)...
![A_Tale_Of_Loopism_VLUrsNA4MB.png](///raw/1fb/53/z/39b4a.png)

I tried the speed runner mode and I don't know how, but when I reached the third room it was completely empty and even though the text said I had my arms unlocked I actually couldn't use them and reach the exit. After restarting the game it worked
![A_Tale_Of_Loopism_bGGcTymWKd.jpg](///raw/1fb/53/z/39b4b.jpg)
🎤 Arthurds
08. Oct 2020 · 18:17 UTC
@coding4rtist Oh no! I dont know if you finished on easy mode or not couse you hid it! Paste a screenshot of the full ending black scene if you want to be added to the pro gamer list!
Jvdwijk
08. Oct 2020 · 21:08 UTC
Was a fun game, definately very difficult but fun nontheless!
Eugenik
08. Oct 2020 · 23:09 UTC
woahhhh amazing!!!! really good work
eskooh
09. Oct 2020 · 02:20 UTC
Thanks for a great game of a lot of dying. Excellent game play and great soundtrack with volume control! Very good to play!
Eluo
09. Oct 2020 · 02:22 UTC
Dayum man "easy".
But was fun. Felt sometimes like a wierd roudn spiderman in hellish loop.
Gj!
parasite210
09. Oct 2020 · 08:36 UTC
![214.PNG](///raw/b8b/c2/z/39c85.png)
Fun game :D
🎤 Arthurds
09. Oct 2020 · 13:35 UTC
@parasite210 what the heck, did you speedrun it ? Thats awesome dude! Will add you to the list
🎤 Arthurds
09. Oct 2020 · 16:11 UTC
![hightscore.png](///raw/3de/c2/z/39d21.png)
Honest Dan
09. Oct 2020 · 22:33 UTC
You did good! The different platformer elements you implemented weren't simple, and I think it felt great to "spider man" around the level. The ball control felt a bit unintuitive, but it worked out once I learned how it operated! You put a lot of effort into the voice acting too - be proud, man.
Sn4pi
09. Oct 2020 · 22:57 UTC
I am looking forward to beat the stage where you are just a wiggly ball that has to maneuver across the plattforms with like **110% accuracy** :laughing: What a great game! Finally something challenging that isn't beaten in under 5 minutes. I love the idea
🎤 Arthurds
10. Oct 2020 · 00:37 UTC
@honest-dan You actually got me a bit emotional here haha. Thank you so much, it means a lot to me!
Tino
10. Oct 2020 · 01:25 UTC
I'm not gonna hit the MLG pro gamer list today..
Eduardo Yukio
10. Oct 2020 · 03:23 UTC
I saw your game on the Simpathey stream! I love difficult games, so I thought of trying yours and oh my, I thought I had made a difficult game lol.

But I guess on my case it was a bit harder, because my GPU is very weak and the game lagged a bunch. The resolution was very weird too, I couldn't see the whole subtitles neither the main menu options, look:
![a.png](///raw/cc8/81/z/39e1e.png)

(My resolution is 1366x768 btw).

But from what I saw on the streams, you implemented many cool levels and mechanics! And very funny dialogs too haha, it reminded me a lot of Portal.

Nice entry!
Savvy Community
10. Oct 2020 · 19:48 UTC
Hey :D thanks for linking your game to us. Overall it's pretty great what you've achieved in 3 days, it was pretty easy to handle and I really liked the character animations. I will play it again to finish it because I really want to go further, well deserved B). Congrats and keep up the good work!

Cheers!
666Savior
10. Oct 2020 · 20:05 UTC
Very fun game
Wendel Scardua
11. Oct 2020 · 00:04 UTC
![loopism.png](///raw/bdb/1/z/39f58.png)

Finally finished your game - and wow it was hard! (I don't think the time on the screenshot is accurate, though - I had left the game open for a while to do some stuff)

My SO saw me when I was stuck at the part where I got the arms, they asked "what is this, 'Spider-man from Hell'?" :sweat_smile:

The dialogs were really funny. It seems that while in Portal the cake was a lie, here the [REDACTED] was true :smile:
Trypants
11. Oct 2020 · 03:05 UTC
MLG PRO GAMER! Had a blast! Almost punched my screen twice.

![MGLPROGAMER.png](///raw/d60/21/z/39f71.png)
🎤 Arthurds
11. Oct 2020 · 14:41 UTC
@wendel-scardua Spider man from hell is very acurate hahahahahaha. Loved that comment, you chose a good SO! Congrats on beating it, I have added you to the MLG PRO GAMER LIST!
🎤 Arthurds
11. Oct 2020 · 14:42 UTC
@trypants Man I had no internet during your stream, but the glimpses I managed to watch were golden! Will most likely watch the vod if you have it enabled. Congrats again on beating it!
kuviman
11. Oct 2020 · 16:31 UTC
EZ

![387f9.png](///raw/7e3/32/z/3a000.png)
mmiddleton
11. Oct 2020 · 16:31 UTC
![iescapedhell.png](///raw/ae8/a/z/3a001.png)
😳 This game man.
🎤 Arthurds
11. Oct 2020 · 16:38 UTC
Yoooo @mmiddleton! Congratulations!! I added you to the pro gamer list! Thanks for playing it!!! Also 5333 seconds wtf thats a lot xD thanks for trying so hard!
elysiagriffin
11. Oct 2020 · 20:50 UTC
Thanks for submitting your SUPER HARD game for me to play on my livestream POMO. Sorry I didnt get the best high score :c

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/767497194?t=2h47m05s

Good luck on your ratings! :D

💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady

https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin
Artyom Volkov
11. Oct 2020 · 23:14 UTC
Great action platformer, with great movement, level design and overall quality. Looking forward to see a full version of the game in the future!
ursagames
11. Oct 2020 · 23:33 UTC
Your game was played on my stream ( https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames/videos ) on 10/11. Thank you for sharing your game with us! You can find the timestamp of when your game was played here: https://tinyurl.com/yy4oycvv
Skyeward
12. Oct 2020 · 11:51 UTC
Proud to be the second streamer to beat Normal Mode! I wasn't fast, but... I was going for style points. Yeah, we'll go with that.

Great entry, I had a lot of fun playing it. Frustrating, but that way be design, and makes the win that much more satisfying. I like the open-ended solutions also, there are a few ways to tackle some rooms.

Unfortunately I'll have to rate 1/5 in all categories because Pomo The Dog is nowhere to be seen in the game. Better luck next time!

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764573572?t=01h14m30s
oneiromancer
13. Oct 2020 · 11:04 UTC
I knew the game is difficult, so I thought I first finish easy mode, then jump into the normal mode. That was a mistake.

It might be an unpopular opinion, but I think the "easy mode" is too easy. That is, for me there is just enough of a difficulty spike for it to feel frustrating and not feel challenging. If I had to point my finger specifically, it was the rotating lasers that have different speeds between the modes.

Overall, it's a fun platformer with great mechanics, and I'm really sad that now I feel unmotivated to finish normal mode.
🎤 Arthurds
13. Oct 2020 · 11:44 UTC
@oneiromancer Yeah its definely a you problem, a lot of people struggle with easy mode for what I've been seeing, should've tried normal first maybe, be more confident in your skills! Thanks for playing!
asfdfdfd
13. Oct 2020 · 20:53 UTC
MAN IT'S HARD.
pee-thief
14. Oct 2020 · 00:44 UTC
Im a dumb widdle babbi
Jenny Bourke
14. Oct 2020 · 00:45 UTC
Extremely fun to watch someone else play!! Great job >:3
coderTrevor
16. Oct 2020 · 08:24 UTC
OMG it's sooo difficult! The controls are hard to get used to and the gravity just seems off. My first impression is to give it one \* for fun because it's too damn hard and very frustrating. Buuut... After you play it for a few hours it kind of grows on you... a lot. Then when you finally beat it, you think you're done but you want to see how well you can speed run it so it sucks you back in. And there is an impressive amount of variety in the gameplay, so... OK I guess it's more like 5 \*'s for fun. :stuck_out_tongue:

I think I've sunk about five hours into it. I'm posting a screenshot from my first completion and my most recent one, I don't think I'll be beating that time.

![coderTrevor-MLG.jpg](///raw/e3d/3/z/3a31c.jpg)

Overall it's a really nice game. Very complete with good graphics, audio, humor, and mood. Awesome job!
🎤 Arthurds
16. Oct 2020 · 11:43 UTC
@codertrevor Thats insane man!!! Thank you so much for playing my game this much! I'm so happy you liked as much as you did. I added you to the MLG PRO GAMER LIST. Also thats a respectable speedrun time hahaha. Thank you again!
coderTrevor
17. Oct 2020 · 15:28 UTC
@arthurds Thanks for adding me to the list! For some reason I felt the call of your game yet again and did in fact manage to beat my previous time. My new speedrun record is 166.44, and I REALLY don't think I can beat that one, lol (I've tried).

I made a [video of this speedrun you can see here](https://myldgames.s3.amazonaws.com/ld47/Loopism_Speedrun.mp4).

I do have one more piece of feedback. I have the most difficulty with the controls on the legless level, and I think I figured out why. I'm guessing you're using the default input settings with Unity? It feels like I'm adding acceleration to a rigidbody based on my input, but Unity's default settings also apply an "acceleration" curve to the horizontal and vertical axies, and I end up feeling like I'm fighting the input and it's not intuitive, because there's two separate acceleration curves happening on top of each other. So if I'm right, and you happen to want the player to have more control, you would give "gravity" and "sensitivity" very high values in the input settings. I think you could change this by script just for that level.

Well, that's my feedback for why I THINK it's difficult to control that level, and what you might try if you WANTED the player to have an easier time. If I'm wrong or if it was your intention to make the controls hard then never mind. :laughing:

I know I've already given you feedback but this is my favorite game of the jam so far. Hope you win.
🎤 Arthurds
17. Oct 2020 · 16:32 UTC
@codertrevor Holy hell man! Thats probably the best time besides mine! Mine is 154,21. You even have the pause on the start so the timer doesn't run during the cutscene strat hahahaha. Also the ball part is suppose to be hard to control, is just one level to trow in some variety, the ball mode on the version of the robot I'm going to keep working on and have been working on is very different. For this LD I just increased the speed and added a physics material with max bouncines to it hahaha, but yeah it its aceleration based. Is supposed to be a "low energy mode" for the player to recharge energy faster, but the draw back is so that you lose a lot of control and have to rely on momentum, still working on it. Thanks again for the feedback! And thanks for liking my game this much again! It does make me very happy, as that is the reason I make games, so people can have fun!
Kaldrin
18. Oct 2020 · 16:38 UTC
Really nice game! I enjoyed it a lot and got frustrated a lot too ahah
I really liked the fact that when you start everything over it loops seemslessly because that's basically the shape of the level, but now you have new powers so you can find an exit!

The control ideas are great, I loved the grappling arms, and the looks pretty good, with good humor and audio, you can be proud! One of the best games I've played so far ^^

But the physics, it's SO weird, like what is this gravity ? It's super strange and not natural, also the hitboxes of the obstacles are not very clear, which is frustrating too.

Special mention to the voice acting it was super fun !

But overall I really liked it ^^ I managed to finish normal mode with this score !

![Screenshot_1.png](///raw/6e2/02/z/3a42f.png)
🎤 Arthurds
18. Oct 2020 · 18:07 UTC
@kaldrin Thanks for playing it! I added you to the mlg pro gamer list! Also yeah, there is extra gravity for the robot, but since I'm the only tester, it may have been a bit too strong, some other people have complaind about it as well and I might reduce it going forward. I had a lot of fun doing the voice acting as well! Thank you for the feedback! (Also hitboxes are fucking spaghetti I know, didnt have time to do them properly)