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Thanks, you too

Sure I just used pyinstaller, just something like
(in command prompt/ powershell)
pip install pyinstaller
pyinstaller --onefile --add-data "img;img" --add-data "audio;audio" main.py
(my assets were in folders named "img" and "audio")

Thanks for the review, glad you liked it. I had made the 2.5D engine with billboarding for the objects during a previous game jam (for my game TheOddOne). I thought that instead of using Unity or Godot I would reused the engine for this.

I'm not sure why it flagged your Virus scanner, I had a similar problem when trying to play some other people's games which other people seemed to be able to play without any problems.

I should be able to add the source code after the jam so you can look at it and reuse parts yourself. 

Fair warning though, my code quality for game jam submissions is absolute garbage. I generally end up putting everything in one file, using global variables everywhere and using ctrl f to find everything. Also there's probably not a single comment haha.

Thanks, glad you enjoyed the game and it's atmosphere.
Yeah, I should probably make it more obvious how to close the pause menu, and maybe make it so that you have to hold escape to exit the game or something haha.

I left you a rating and comment,
I liked yours too :)

I loved the art style for this game, especially the player character art and animations for the mushroom head moving when jumping and falling to make it look squishy. The idea of enemies becoming jump pads when you kill them was pretty cool. I did get a  situation where killing an enemy in the wrong place left me in an impossible possition where I could neither continue nor die so I had to restart (see screenshot). Maybe this was intentional and the challenge was to be more accurate with the timing of killing the enemy. I liked the idea of weapons cycing to implement the loop theme.

Overall a fun game :)

Thank you, glad you liked it. I checked out your game too which was cool, I left a rating and review. Good luck too :)

This was a fun game, I liked the idea of freehand loops drawn by the mouse as a solution to the puzzles with the added challenge of ensuring the line was the correct length. It seemed like the best idea was to keep all of your lines as straight as possible up to each block and your loops tight so that you could waste your length just before B and get exactly the right length. Some music would have been a bonus but its understandable that you weren't trying to go for that rating criteria when there is very little time in a game jam.

Overall a fun game with good potential.

I saw you post this game in the discord and jumped at playing it (no coding pun intended). I was waiting for a game that interpreted "loop" as it's coding meaning of i.e for/while loops etc. Solving these levels using your own implementation of a compiler/interpreter for basically assembly code was very fun  :).
I loved how the different buttons and pressure pads added challenge to the levels. Furthering the loop theme by making the player end up with the correct program counter position and robot orientation for the next loop around the maze was a great idea.
One minor improvement, maybe make it easier to get back to the main menu without having to refresh the whole webpage (there may already be a way to do this but I couldn't find it).

Was an awesome game, congrats.

My game is below if you wouldn't mind checking it out that would be great. It hasn't seemed to have attracted too many ratings so a few more before the rating period deadline would be awesome, thanks.

This was a fun game to play, I loved that I could play it on my phone too :)

Very fun to try to get up to that flag when I ended up going round in loops loads up in the top right, got there in the end after playing for like 20mins haha very rewarding to finally get there. Very annoying to fall down all the after all that work getting up though, a bit like hitting the longest snake in snakes and ladders.

Is there any way to get to the gem behind the Tetris block on the bottom right? I spent a few minutes at the end trying, I thought maybe I had to go over the top left to press some hidden button to move the tetris shaped block or something. Perhaps the gem is just a decorative detail that I was obsessing over haha.

Had a bit of fun trying to get better at this game and I liked the art style and idea behind this game, it was however very hard to control haha. I ended up being able to do full loops around the outside of the map but when I tried to go into any of the inner corridoors I inevitably ended up messing it up and hitting a wall. It would have been cool if it was easier to survive a bit longer to be able to see the theme of eating your own tail. Maybe you could make it so that the player has a number of lives and they only lose one each time they hit a wall instead of just dying.
Was fun though :).

9 :)

[Spoilers]
Top marks for creativity, at first I just thought this was a joke submission and the whole game was just a loading screen loop that went on forever with no actual game/gameplay. After I read the description a bit more thoroughly and found the hidden controls, I managed to get it to start. I loved the idea of having the loading screen become the character, the loops of the loading screen as the theme implementation was very creative especially with the loop movement throughout the game (5/5 creativity). I like the simplicity of this game, the fact that this was done in Scratch is pretty cool too haha, nice to see that I'm not the only one not using a game engine for my submission. I got up to a highscore of 9 on normal mode (spamming space to go straight is pretty useful).

9 :)

I enjoyed this game, the artwork was nice, and I'm a big fan of word games.
Completing loops with only a few long words was very satisfying.

I did however find it a little confusing and unintuitive to understand what would cause a loop to be completed.
I beleive that a loop longer than the circle size can be completed if the final word starts with the red letters and ends with the beginning of the circle?
Also since there are only 4 possible start words, 4 different solutions can just be learnt ahead of time so you don't have to work them out in the game, I like the elemental theme but perhaps there could be a bit more variation here.

Overall this was a great concept and fun to play, the music was nice. Overall a great game that I think could be made even more awesome if it wasn't constrained by the limited timeframe of a game jam :).

Thanks, glad to hear you enjoyed it. The rewind animation was actually surprisingly easy to make: I just stored a screenshot of the whole screen once every second over the 2 minute day and then just played them all back in reverse order over a 3 second period for the rewind (patching some of the gui panels over the top for stuff that doesn't loop).

Would love to spend some extra time on this in the future as you suggest :) maybe some extra enemy types and a more rewarding ending where you can break the loop, or alternatively keep it as just a survival game but with a high scores leaderboard.

Thanks again for the kind words, I loved your game too.

Doesn't load for me either unfortunately, the screenshots look cool though.

This was good fun, I loved the voicelines and the narrative. The devil was a very well made character and learning more about the narrative and trying to avoid signing the contract was a fun challenge.

Maybe you could have made more well defined endpoints for the game, like it ends when you sign the contract, or there is a certain sequence of dialogue choices that you can make to avoid signing the contract all together (perhaps there already is and I just couldn't find it).

Overall I loved the weird vibe and atmosphere of this game, the voicelines were very well done (5/5) audio. Congrats.

I liked the way that if you have fast reaction times you can stop the gambling machine at the right time to get exactly the powerup that you want and it's going just slow enough to do this adding some element of skill to the game.

I thought maybe the combat could be slightly more involved, maybe you could add blocking and have attacks deal less damage so the fight is a bit longer. Different types of attacks could deal deal different amounts of damage: slash, stab, headshot etc. I appreciate only a limited amount of work is realistically achievable in the short timeframe of a gamejam.

Overall this was a fun game to play. Nice work :)

I loved this,  5/5 Narrative, I loved the loop back to the start at the end of the story.

The way the home screen changes and the timekeeper remembers your previous game when you start it again is an awesome meta detail. That the timekeeper's powers transcend even runs of the game.

[Spoilers]
As a way to improve this already great game, maybe you could give the player a bit more of an ability to make choices that effect the story e.g. defying the timekeeper repeatedly or refusing to give the curse to your past self could break the cycle.

[No more spoilers]
Great to see that I wasn't the only one using python for the game jam either (your code looks a lot nicer than mine haha, my code quality always goes downhill when I have to rush out such a short project).

I loved the artwork and the concept behind this game.

I found the car quite hard to control, the stearing didn't seem that responsive. I kept getting the car stuck sideways or with the front of the car pointing downwards. The controls when backwards to try and correct this seemed a little unintuitive. Maybe I am just bad at driving games haha.

I would have loved to have made it around a full loop to comment on the competing with a past loop of yourself part of the game but unfortunately I kept falling off or getting stuck sideways. Maybe I am just bad at driving games haha.

Also when I fall off of the track it doesnt allow me to restart the game, it just hangs in space, maybe this could be added so I dont have to refresh the browser window every time I fall off.

The speedometer in light years per hour was a cool addition, I liked the idea that the car was travelling faster than light haha.

Overall I had fun playing this and loved the visuals.

Looping around the asteroids and enemies with the grapling hook was a cool unique interpretation of the theme.

The controls were definitely hard to use and did seem a little unresponsive at some times, e.g. it wouldnt let me rotate the ship so I could only accelerate directly towards the aliens.

Maybe I was just missing something with the controls, I liked the idea concept and art style :)

This is the best game that I have seen in the game so far, expecting to see this in Marks video at the end of the jam :)

I love the art stype and goofy poses that the guys make as they walk and jump, the contrasting purple and yellow colour choice is cool and this game seems very replayable. The online leaderboard is a cool bonus too. Overall very professional and impressive for a 4 day game jam.

Smashing everything was very satisfying and I liked the smashing sound effects. This game was nice and simplistic nothing confusing about the game or controls at all.
I liked the idea of the anvil looping from the bottom to the top as a way to implement the theme.

Maybe as an improvement to make the game a little more challenging you could add certain blocks that the player has to avoid smashing so the route you chose down the screen matters a little more, or maybe some that will lose the player some momentum when they hit them so the levels are solved slower (maybe the levels could be timed).

You could make more levels where these challenges matter a little more each time.

Just some suggestions for future improvements :)

Overall a fun and satisfying game.

I enjoyed playing this, I thought the idea of having sprouts that mirror your actions in conjunction with the ghosts that were frozen still to solve levels was a cool concept.

In terms of level design (ignoring the previously mentioned glitch where the door won't open), I found that unfortunately I didn't really have to use the actions of the mirrored sprout beans to solve the level; most of the time the easy solution was actually to stop them moving by completely trapping them using the still ghost beans as in the following screnshot. The anti-sprouting pads didn't seem to ever provide an obstacle using this method and I didn't have to consider the actions of the mirror bean at all. Perhaps this easy method of solving levels was unintended (A limit on the number of grey ghosts you can make could maybe help fix this).

Overall this was a fun experience though and I thought the narrative at the beginning (which maybe scrolled away a little too fast to read - sorry to nitpick) was a fun bit of lore behind the game and the levels were fun to solve despite the goofy method I used to solve some of them :).

Thanks, making it in pygame definitely added a bit of a challenge but then I've never spent the time to learn unity well so I would probably spend just as long trying to get things to work in that. I'm glad the rewinding effect came out well :)

Thanks, I made them in Microsoft paint 3D haha, and then turned that into pixel art for billboarding. Unfortunately they are as hostile as they are cute :,(. I really liked your game too, I left it a rating.

Thanks for all of the positive feedback. Glad to hear that the enemies were well balanced and the upgrades didn't get out of control too quickly. The yellow guys were a bit overpowered during development when they dealt a bunch more damage and ran faster, definitely received a much needed nerf.

Thanks, glad to see that people are enjoying it. One of my friends decided to eat all of the mushrooms till it killed him too haha.

I liked the artwork and the distorted wibbling effect on the visuals. The concept of being able to upgrade each loop was pretty fun. As you pointed out, being able to control the weapons would be a great feature to add so there is a bit more to do between upgrades than only shielding yourself.

The gameplay was a lot of fun, I liked the challenge of having to get close enough to the vampires to collect your stake but not too close that you get bitten. I liked the narrative/dialogue throughout the game and the collectible about all of the errors in VS code was very funny. I thought the game could be a bit more linked to the loop theme, but overall it was a lot of fun.

I liked the artwork and the idea of creating the loops with the mouse to gain faith. My wrist hurts from all of the spinning haha.

It was a lot of fun to get the hang of when I should and shouldn't be holding "s" to gather up the maximum momentum, and how many valleys I should be jumping over with each jump. I like the simple colour palette and aesthetic. I felt bad for my Lemur because I'm pretty sure he has brain damage after the number of times i have accidentally slammed him into the front of a hill at full speed.

This game was great, the puzzles are a lot of fun to solve especially level 5 which I thought was very well made. I was sad that there weren't any more levels when I completed it. My game also includes time loops (without the interacting with past selves idea) I'm happy to see other people thought of making a game about them too. 

The idea of a lasso tool as a loop is a very cool concept. I was really bad at this game haha but I'm not good at this sort of gameplay in general (Undertale boss fights and the like). Overall a great game :).

This was the most fun submission that I have played so far. The puzzles were fun to solve and the time limit was well chosen to give the right level of challenge. I seemed very speed-run-able (The best I got was 1:47). I also made a game with time loops, I like to see other people were thinking similarly.

I loved the art and audio aesthetic. I couldn't get past the first level though, i had given the cat two of the yellow sushi and then I was given a red one which I couldn't put on the plate (and I don't think the cat wanted). Maybe I was missing one of the controls. (This was the browser version)

I liked the way that the levels got progressively more challenging as they progressed. The audio was fun and playful. I couldn't seem to find a downside for tredding on the bear traps, they didn't seem to cause me to die or anything, maybe I am missing something obvious. I also got stuck in a loop of two adjacent mushrooms pointing towards each other which I couldn't get out of (maybe this just adds to the loop theme haha). [Edit: it seems the website glitched and caused me to post this message three times, sorry for the spam.]

This was a lot of fun, I thought the idea of endlessly fighting the ghosts of your past in a loop was a great interpretation of the theme. I liked the sound effects too.

This was fun, I was quite bad at it though haha, maybe I just suck at pool. I like the added challenge of avoiding the balls hit in the last shot. 

Thank you :)

Making the pixel art and music for this game was a lot of fun. Yeah nobody else commented on the Mary had a little lamb yet haha. I thought since the tune is open source I would make a remix of it and mix it up a bit changing the melody half way through.

Please feel free to leave a rating if you haven't already, there are 6 hours left :).