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A jam submission

The Long Way AroundView game page

TLWA (Perpl GMTK Game Jam 2025)
Submitted by Perapl, 3mi, jzm1 — 2 days, 14 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#10973.9843.984
Enjoyment#12133.6253.625
Artwork#13423.8283.828
Audio#18303.2663.266
Narrative#29652.5472.547

Ranked from 64 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?
It's about combining and separating roads to make a loop for the cars to go through

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
See description for full credits.

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Perapl (pear apple 🍐🍎)

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Comments

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Submitted

This is a really solid and somewhat challenging premise -not only do you have to connect all the points in a loop, but you also have to do it before the car reaches a disconnected end! well designed, and a nice challenge :)

Submitted

Really original! Out of the road loop games I’ve tried so far, I think I like this one the best. It’s cozy, but I really like the time challenge you added with the cars, it makes the gameplay feel dynamic. Great sound and artwork. Well done!

Submitted

The concept of creating/joining loop is of course obvious with loop theme, but you make it interesting with the differents interaction even early in the game (with the not joining + switching), the game is fairly difficult with the levels. I would have loved that the objective was to cause the crash instead of avoinding it haha. Great job! 

Submitted

The idea is super smart! This reminds me a lot of Poly Bridge where you are limited by the length and number of nodes! The art style also complements this game very well, especially the “congrats” and “fail” arts.

Submitted

The game is very fun, but i got some problems. I don't understand how we split roads already looping. And i never knew where is my maximum length with the points linking tracks together.
The concept overwise is really cool and original ! I love your idea and art, it's new and good !

Developer

hi railnof, try clicking the road nodes, that should separate them!
some mice might have trouble clicking it, sorry for that

Submitted

A good jam game. I liked the idea and the experience was fun.

Submitted

Very creative way to make the loop direction matter. I think editing the loops was sometimes a bit difficult since you couldn’t really tell how far you could drag a point. Overall very enjoyable though and impressive polish for a jam project!

Submitted

Good concept and art for jam

Submitted

Pretty solid idea and implementation, I like it! My only problem is that sometimes the tracks get disconnected in weird ways, but other than that good job!

Submitted(+1)

Amaz*boom*

I couldn't manage the level with the long train on the left and the donut lake, even after finding out that scrolling on the nodes disconnects them more reliably I still made a lot of cars go boom. Lovely take on the theme, I had a great time watching those cows ride backwards across lakes :)

Submitted

Cute art and great concept. I like that the moving cars add a sense of urgency to the road building, making you need to move fast. I think the timing could be slightly more forgiving. Still, it’s quite fun . Great job!

Submitted

my cars kep tcrashing :(

Submitted

Nice little game, i liked it

Submitted(+1)

GAME is AWESOME , art sound and gameplay feels really good Thank you for submitting. I would LOVE to see this be a steam game one day GREAT JOB

Submitted(+1)

Excellent game and choice of music! Enjoyable and chill, would reccomend.

Submitted

So smooth and satisfying to control. Whoever chose the sound effects did a great job same for whoever set up the drag and drop controls. Not sure if it was a bug or not but cars could drive through trees. Regardless, I had such a chill time with this that I'm glad the hazards weren't too hazardous (if that makes sense). Thanks for sharing!

Developer

Oh, yes, the obstacles are the only ones with an outline. The trees are just decoration. ;)

Submitted

Good game 

Submitted

The art looks so good, interesting idea with the roads and loops!

Submitted

Fun and challenging game! I love the art style and the concept was unique too!

Submitted

I really like the mechanical simplicity of reorienting platforms to create loops of traversable paths! Additional mechanics such as the requiring the vehicles to travel in a single direction also adds nicely to the puzzle designs. Overall a very interesting game, but some levels may require slight balancing as they could be a little too challenging.

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