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https://store.steampowered.com/app/3948390/Vicious_Loop/

Nice idea, the mix of tower defense and idle incremental game. The pacing is a bit slow, also I wish I could upgrade my bat. Great sound effects and art work though, I enjoyed the experience

Yay, somebody defeated the Satan! We are happy! Thanks for your feedback :)

Thanks, we tried to make every update in a way that it will change the gameplay when unlocked

Hey, thank you so much for this comment, you made our day!

We are sorry you encountered issues with loosing the progress. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to implement the saving system during the jam. But since you enjoyed the game so much, we decided to upload our development build which we kept improving after the jam for you.

https://evgeek.itch.io/vicious-loop-2

The change list:

• Implemented the save system :)
• Improved visuals
• Fixed some bugs
• Changed balance  to make the later stages more interesting
• Added a developer console. You can press ` (or ~, the button below Esc) to open it and input "money 100000" to give yourself some money if you want to skip the beginning 

We can't restore your progress, but this is the least we could do. We hope you'll enjoy it. Thank you again for your kind words

Exactly! We are glad you enjoyed the game

We are glad you enjoyed it, thanks for playing!

Thanks for playing and for the feedback! Health bars were on our todo list, we even added one to the Satan. Probably having them on all enemies and having the damage numbers show up would be even cooler

Thanks for playing! We actually enjoyed how the bullets sound fades out when you transition to the next loop, so we decided to keep it in. But we appreciate your feedback, probably we should have make it fade out in some other way

Very cool game! That's one looong train, took me a while to clear it. I wish there was more strategy in placign the pick upables. I really enjoyed the art though, keep it up!

Nice submission! Didn't expect to get the existential dread from the game tbh :)

Also took me a while to realize that shooting only works in the direction you are facing

Love the concept and that you can create different shapes that act differently. The platforming is a bit janky, but keep going! I wish I could use a bigger grid to create even more complex layouts too. Good job!

Nice concept! A bit of advice: don't put the appearing text into textbox with auto scale, it is really hard to read when text jumps around. Also you can look up some tutorials on how to make good platformer mechanics, e.g. jumps can feel much better if you increase the gravity when moving down, if there is coyote time and so on. I got stuck on walls a couple times. Also it would be nice to have a goal beyond just a high score. But overall a great game for a short jam, keep it up!

Yes, you can switch within a certain distance. The cars you can switch to have a white outline when you hover the mouse over them

Nice job! Searching for an optimal path in the track was fun

Nice job! Searching for an optimal path in the track was fun

A neat idea for a puzzle game! Would love to play more of it. Maybe consider making a pause button to allow more time for thinking

Very fun game! Impressive you made it in the jam

I liked the main character animation, and hits making you slower is a great idea, it gives the player some breathing room in case they fail. Do close hits make you faster?

Cozy game, very fitting graphics and soundtrack. Would love to see more diverse levels and mechanics!

Great game to kill 5 minutes, my score is over 14000 right now and you should do something to the balance because i basically can't finish the game and last 4000 i've made AFK, nice name by the way

wonderful game with great idea and fun gameplay!

Really good game with nice idea, may be not in my genre, but story is amazing!

Nice idea of remaking classic game, controls need reworking, not bad game, made in 2 days

Nice game, gameplay is too repetitive for me, but i really liked  the visuals!

Nice idea, game lacked music, but nice job!

Interesting idea of reverse atari breakout, but sometimes you have no option to avoid meteors, good game overall!

Good audio and visuals, completed the game, gameplay is a bit repetitive and map is unfinished, but i enjoyed the game, nice job!

Good story, but sometimes gameplay gets frustrating because of small platforms, also checkpoints could make gameplay more enjoyable, having said that audio was great, good luck with future games!

Interesting game idea and lore, but game is not finished yet and there is not so musc content, but good luck with finishing!

Thanks, I agree, having undo would be great, but the implementation is too hard for the jam time limits

Good game with story, lacked gameplay advancement, haven't seen any bugs, good job!

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!

Nice fun game, interesting idea, I haven't seen the mix of space invaders  and atari breakout before. I scored 2870 on a touchpad!

It is the game with an interesting setting, but a bit hard for me, also was upset, because fading doesn't affect gameplay. Nice job for the firs game!

Nice little game! I would love to see more content like different systems of a ship that affect the movement, e.g. engine cooling and fuel delivery

Nice job! I think you should give player more incentive to move and dash (enemy bullets?). The strategy of standing near apple trees and holding attack is just too powerful rn. Still had fun!

Well-polished and fun game, the hand is really cool and the baby got me! I wish there were more effects, especially when rapid fire is active I wanna see my bullets go brrr

So good! The story is amazing, and the platforming was challenging, but in  a nice way. Not gonna lie, I had to restart the game because I didn't plan for a comeback when I placed the first set of traps. 

My level:

Kdld!!!!!!!!jdrd!!ddvdwdvkwkGcBd!!!!!!qd!!!!odnd!!!!dbcbbbhd

A fun little game, I like how due to tile decay you wish for more enemies, I was feeling happy whenever I saw a bat on the other side of the screen. Also intro was funny, loved the art. Bats and goo, that is one unlucky man :)