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GMTK Game Jam 2025

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A jam submission

LOOPGRINDERZView game page

Spin-on-rail-around-your-hurtbox shooter
Submitted by RandomlyAwesome — 4 hours, 17 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Narrative#52002.0822.167
Enjoyment#56292.4822.583
Creativity#57552.8022.917
Artwork#63192.4022.500
Audio#79581.6011.667

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
The player is on rails looping around the object they are trying to protect. Thematically it is also set around a program trying to loop through logic, during which you are trying to protect it from other programs attempting to stop it.

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Unfa's Laser Weapon Sounds - Unfa

locking keyed padlock.wav - Wrylytucker

Cursor-Pixel-Pack, Input-Prompts, Particle-Pack - Kenney

That one infinity symbol on the jam page - GMTK

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Vercte1 year ago

It was a bit repetitive to play, but otherwise ptetty fun to try and deal with all the enemies. I think more enemy types would be neat

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Vercte1 year ago

It was a bit repetitive to play, but otherwise ptetty fun to try and deal with all the enemies. I think more enemy types would be neat

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Ondrej_RoblikSubmitted1 year ago

sounds are lacking, the bullets seem to travel too slowly than the enemies, some gameover screen would be nice

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T-30SECONDS
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Amandav2701 year ago

This is a tried and true game mechanic, however it does seem oversaturated. I was excited to see the lock mechanic since that was a bit more fresh. However the first time it appear for me it was hidden behind the progress bar which led to me aiming into the abyss. This is a great launch pad into something greater.  

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Eddie ExabitSubmitted1 year ago (1 edit) (+1)

Interesting game, it was actually fun. Looping over the heart and protecting it was kinda fun, honestly.

But here are some key details if you want to make it better:

First, there is no sound in the game except for some enemy sounds. If you had used music, that would have been perfect.
In my playtime, when you die, you just go back to the main menu without any game over screen. It makes things feel a bit weird, as I was playing and suddenly the heart got attacked and I died, but instead of a death screen, it just sent me back to the main menu.
The most essential thing here is the lack of audio. If you add more sounds to it, it would be perfect.

That said, nice implementation of the concept of loop. I personally liked it ╰(*°▽°*)╯

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SPIRAL LOOP
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RandomlyAwesomeDeveloper1 year ago

Thanks for the feedback! Happy to hear that it was able to entertain. :)
I'll definitely be going back over it for a polishing pass sometime after the voting period is done,  I actually did have some music lined up but it didn't loop (heh) well and editing it into segments/searching for another wasn't high enough a priority for the time limit.

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Eddie ExabitSubmitted1 year ago

That is perfect dude,  I am glad you wanna make it more polished. And also have fun making more games !! ^0^

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