How to play ?

Use your keyboard arrows to move the character around. Press C to go to the next dialog and confirm. Press X to skip the dialog animation.

What is this game ?

This game was created for the Vim Game Jam (November 8th 2024 to November 18th 2024). The Jam Focus was “Racing”. The game was not forced to be a racing game, so I wanted to do something inspired by MINIT. The optional theme was "Escape", I used it for the story. The three diversifiers  where : "Four Color Palette", "Animal Characters" and "Mouse only". I did use the two first ones, but I left the mouse only rule out. I used Pico8, because I'm obsessed with this engine.

Devlog

I decided to do the jam when it was first announced, but I only started working on it on Thursday (November 14th). I only worked on it a few hours, but I worked a lot more on it on Friday. I was elsewhere on Saturday, so there was no work that day. I worked a little bit on Sunday. I just created the Itch.io page and wrote a good chunk of dialog. I thought so many times that I did not have enough time. But I pushed through ! And I did it. I'm satisfied. 

For the creation itself, I knew what type of game I wanted to do. I was envisioning a MINIT kind of game, with mostly story, a little puzzle, and a timer. I created a small map, every assets... But at this point, I had no story, only a time loop. I started writing (time was running) and the story kind of wrote itself. I was so rushed, I just wrote the first things in my mind haha. I struggle to keep my code clean. I mean, my code is always awful, but I try to keep things in order. In the end, I just wrote code, whatever it fit. My game is small, so it's fine, but I used a lot more tokens than probably needed.

Where to find me ?

@berry_sauvage on Instagram, Discord and Youtube. https://linktr.ee/berry_sauvage

The game is also available on Lexaloffle ! https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=145377

Credits

Game and Pixel Art by Berry’ (me).

Part of the code are from some Lexaloffle carts, like the transition by Emu or the dialog system by Rusty Bailey.

Music by Gruber and Krajzeg. (https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=38442) 
SFX by Gruber. (https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=34367)

GOT STUCK ?

If you are stuck, you can find the solution of the game here:
https://www.figma.com/board/nezivwh7jIK7g5uvqAWK0v/Small-Loop---Game-Solution?no...