"Only after completing a few levels did I realize you didn't have to complete the loop :D" This wasn't completely intentional :) Early on we wanted to penalize not-completing the loop (with no-points or maybe 25% of the points), but then we had the idea of adding a "No-loop" ticket so you can create specific no-loop builds. And in the end we didn't implement any of it and realized that after we submitted our game :) Will definitely change in a post-jam version!