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Pirate LoopView game page

A tower defense, sandbox, roguelike, strategy game.

Submitted by ZagonGames, T4Kum, AfterShock — 1 hour, 34 minutes before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Enjoyment	#205	4.150	4.150
Artwork	#1392	3.800	3.800
Creativity	#1535	3.850	3.850
Audio	#3345	2.900	2.900
Narrative	#3384	2.450	2.450

Ranked from 20 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?
You have to destroy a ship trapped in an infinite loop to resume the pasage of time. (The map is a loop lol)

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Music: Bosun Bill - Sea of Thieves (Robin Beanland)

Models: Palm Tree - Rovani (on sketchfab)

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
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Comments

SupermuttGames1 year ago(+1)

This is so much fun. Love this interpretation of the theme and it's a great way to do a tower defense style game. I wish the ship got a little harder to slow down each turn or maybe the number of ships you had to slow down increased each turn. This is great work for just 96 hours! Nicely done!

AfterShockDeveloper1 year ago

I’m glad you enjoyed it! Ty for the feedback

MadDuck162Submitted1 year ago(+1)

Addictive! I love the stone spikes and with combination with flame throwers and ice berg - OP. I also really like the graphics. Good job!

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The Circling Blob

ZagonGamesDeveloper1 year ago

I’m glad you enjoyed it! There are definitely some op strats, we don’t even know what the best one is yet.

Thanks for trying out the game!

LuicelSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

This is such a goofy idea; I love it. The quantity and variety of items (cards?) you could use did lead to a lot of synergy potential. At times I really felt like I was cheesing the game (but in a good way) haha

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Scringlo Goes to Work

ZagonGamesDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

I'm glad you liked it! Thanks for trying the game out :)

LDGamingExpressSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

I really enjoyed this one! It's a nice little challenge and I played it a few times to see how high of a score I could get.

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ZagonGamesDeveloper1 year ago

I'm really glad you liked it! How high of a score could you get??

LDGamingExpressSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

I got past 1520, but lost at 1703. I think I needed another Bottle to get past that wave.

ZagonGamesDeveloper1 year ago (2 edits)

That’s a LOT of flamethrowers 😂

Thanks for sharing the screenshot! I love seeing peoples “builds”.

And a bit late to say this now but you could rotate the towers with the scroll wheel, totally forgot to teach that in the tutorial 😅

LDGamingExpressSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Oh, that might have helped me to add even more flamethrower walls. I liked combining them with ghost ships and catapults to keep the pirate ship trapped in a little "killzone."

RockyenerdSubmitted1 year ago

my first tower defense game that i can try and artwork so cool!

If possible, can you please vote my game and leave a comment too?

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Inside the Cave

clootronSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

I really liked the game, relaxing tower defense gameplay in the original wrapper)

Speeding up time is a great feature in such games!

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Swing to the MOON

ZagonGamesDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

We're glad you could enjoy it! I don't think it was meant to be relaxing but if you had fun that’s all that matters 😂

Thanks for checking out the game

RedskySubmitted1 year ago(+1)

cool game i managed to get 3250 points however i think the chests are very cheap compared t the value they gave .

overall the game is good well done dev

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ZagonGamesDeveloper1 year ago

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

And yep, chests are really good and unbalanced 😅

DolphcodeSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

Love this game! Making a tower defense game out of the theme was quite interesting. Gameplay overall felt reasonably balanced (although I found it really easy to get to a point where I never needed to worry about money anymore so I wonder if it would be beneficial to make things more expensive as you go, just a personal thought). I appreciate the speed up quality of life feature, art work is very well directed.

Great job!

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ZagonGamesDeveloper1 year ago

The money gets really unbalanced as the game progresses, our scope was a bit to big so after adding 10 different towers we didn’t really got to balance everything 😅 and preferred to make it a bit easer so players could experience the whole thing, our bad lol

I'm really glad you enjoyed it and thanks a lot for trying it out!

DolphcodeSubmitted1 year ago

Love this game! Making a tower defense game out of the theme was quite interesting. Gameplay overall felt reasonably balanced (although I found it really easy to get to a point where I never needed to worry about money anymore so I wonder if it would be beneficial to make things more expensive as you go, just a personal thought). I appreciate the speed up quality of life feature, art work is very well directed.

Great job!

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meandering_baryon [dev-trev]Submitted1 year ago

I liked it, especially liked the way the water moves in the loop river and the way the iceberg creates a "snowy" region around it visually, fun game!

Agreed that using music directly from another well known game isn't my favorite call, and the sfx get pretty chaotic once you have a loop entirely full of spiked rocks, which I spammed as many as I could buy lol !

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ZagonGamesDeveloper1 year ago

I’m glad you could enjoy it even with its flaws, thanks for trying the game out!

For us the crazy sound effects once you are in the late game are part of the charm 😂

PanduckSubmitted1 year ago

Should have it playable on browser too.

Submitted

Duck Anomaly - Looping Horror

ZagonGamesDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

We tried but the lighting and water shader were completely broken in the browser build and we couldn't fix it in time😅

JimboSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

Fun idea for the jams theme and really addictive. Really enjoyed it

Submitted

A game about a cube

ZagonGamesDeveloper1 year ago

I’m glad you liked it! Thanks for trying it out Jimbo

James DigbySubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Pretty fun game, quite addicting to see number go up! Might not have been super wise to take music directly out of another game, but it at least fit the game's theme!

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Captain Eddy and the Cult of the Kraken

ZagonGamesDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

The music was a last minute add, It needed something so we rolled with it 😅
I see you have a fellow pirate game, we will definitly try it!
Thanks for cheking our game out

juanigarciadev1 year ago(+2)

I loved it! I invite you to beat my record
https://imgur.com/a/nGuksQD