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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #208 | 4.148 | 4.148 |
| Creativity | #452 | 4.222 | 4.222 |
| Artwork | #1279 | 3.852 | 3.852 |
| Narrative | #1598 | 2.963 | 2.963 |
| Audio | #1857 | 3.259 | 3.259 |
Ranked from 27 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 gameplay consists of figuring out the best loop in each level for getting as much gold as possible (by looping as many times as possible). Every puzzle is solved by creating a loop.
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Music by Matthew Pablo
Some of the sounds in this project were created by David McKee (ViRiX)
soundcloud.com/virix
Other SFX by Juhani Junkala & Kenney
(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Gusing & Matt
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Nice way to spin the theme! This was a really fun puzzle game and I like the vibes. Reminds me of the old flash game days.
Glad you found it fun! Thank you for playing ^^
Cool interpretation of the theme! I liked!
Thanks! We spent quite a while brainstorming before deciding on it, glad you liked it.
Amazing work! Just finished the game and was craving more levels.
The puzzles were so much fun and made the gameplay feel diverse, all while matching the theme perfectly!
Thank you! Great to hear the puzzles were fun :D
I liked it. In just 10 levels, you were able to properly showcase many interesting mechanics for the looping path premise. It was honestly fun, so props to you for creating this in such short time.
Awesome, thanks. Yeah we barely had time to get everything in place, but somehow it worked out. glad you found it fun!
That's a really good game ! Well explained, quite polished, i enjoyed it !
Thank you! Glad to hear you enjoyed it ^^
Floor VII was my favorite! I really enjoyed this game and appreciate the attention to detail and wanting to give the players a smooth difficulty curve and lots of extra information to ensure that the puzzle was as easy to understand as possible!
Good choice! I was a bit worried some mechanics weren't explained or intuitively understood well enough, so it's great to hear it worked out. Thanks a lot for playing!
Every knew mechanic got explored in a great way. Great use of the theme!
Thanks! I'm glad you liked what we did with the mechanics :)
This game is in one of my favorite genres , puzzle games! I love games that challenge the mind like this. It's really well made, and the art style is absolutely beautiful!
Thank you very much! Awesome that you liked the art style, we went for a pretty specific type of retro feel. Thanks for playing!
Glad you like the mechanics! It was tough squeezing them in before the jam deadline but luckily we managed to create a couple.
Love the idea for the puzzles! Great aesthetics and I really like the gnome sounds as he falls haha. As for other nit-picky things that dont really matter rn because it's a game jam, i wish i can back track a little bit instead of full resetting my path. Nice submission! Good job.Thank you, glad you liked it! During the pathing phase you can undo 1 step with the little blue arrow button next to reset, or by pressing Z. But after running an attempt it unfortunately doesn't save the path you made, which I can understand is a bit annoying. Thanks for playing!
You nailed the retro look of this game, this is probably one of my favorite looking games so far. Mechanically, this was super unique and very interesting. I think where this game excels is in the level design, you do a good job of interesting mechanics and putting them to use in interesting ways. My one wish is that there were more levels especially utilizing the mechanics introduced later in the game. I feel like there's a lot of room for complex and very challenging puzzles.
All in all, congrats on submitting, and fantastic job!
Awesome, thanks! I hoped to create a bunch of levels when everything else was in place, but alas, there was no time. So these 10 mechanic-introducing levels would have to be it. That said we might very well expand on the game after the jam.
Loved the retro feel, fun game once I got the hang of it. Nice work!
Thanks, glad you liked it!
super good, i love this
Thank you!
I quite enjoyed this. Fun little game mate. keep it up.
Thanks mate :)
I really enjoyed this one! Great puzzler, super charming presentation. Really, really nice!
Awesome to hear, thank you!
This feels like a hidden gem from the mid 90s. Really enjoyable, hope Tomtig is recognized as the hero he is.
Glad you enjoyed it, that vibe was exactly what we were going for. We're all rooting for Tomtig!
Very good game. Fits the theme, good and different level mechanics, the art is also good and the x3 option shows how they thought of making a good experience. One of the best i've played to this moment (almost 10 games)
Thanks a lot! Yeah pretty early on we realized a speed up option was a must for this game haha
Really awesome little puzzle game! I could see something like this being really cool with some additional tile types and puzzles! Needing to end where you started was a really clever way to use the theme, but also make the puzzles more in depth as you don't only need to figure out what path works once, but what path is the most structurally sound. Awesome work! :)
Thank you! Glad you liked how we made the gameplay, might expand it with more puzzles after the jam.