HE IS LOOPING [GMTK2025]

Inspired by "He Is Coming", "Advance Wars", "Fire Emblem", and more.

This is a roguelite RPG where your goal is to attempt to create a viable character build that can take down the boss, or be forced to loop over and over again until you can. Explore the procedurally generated world, collect loot (for that loop), improve your stats (permanently), fight monsters, and prepare for the boss fight.

Terrain costs you varying amounts of movement and you only have so much time before the boss attacks you.

Controls:

Keyboard

• - WASD / Arrow Keys: Move
• - E/Enter: Interact/Accept
• - 1/2/3: Take Reward 1/2/3
• - ESC/Backspace: Reject

Controller:

• - Left Analog Stick/Depad: Move
• - A (Cross): Interact/Accept
• - X/Y/B (Square/Triangle/Circle): Take Reward 1/2/3
• - Start: Reject

Information about the stats:

HP: Your health, it can go up and down there is no max HP. So heals have no limit. If you reach 0 HP you die and redo the loop.

Armor: Flat damage reduction but is lost once used. In brackets is the Armor Regen, which is how much armor you regenerate after every fight.

Speed: decides who goes first in combat. If you have 2x the speed of the enemy (or vice versa) you get to attack twice (or they do). If you have 3x their speed you get to attack 3 times. To get additional attacks past that point you need specific items which increase the cap.

Strength: Half of your strength stat gets added as bonus damage. Some weapons also add your full Strength stat on top of that as damage.

Damage: This is your flat damage you will always do no matter what, but if you have other ways to do damage you can have it as low as 0!

Vision: How many tiles your character can see. Standing on mountains greatly increases this and lets you see over all terrain. Some items also increase your vision.

The development process was streamed live: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1WRu1sntH9ixzV7mhJTaMOctuhoUWHwl 

You can get the entire source code here: https://github.com/ShrikeGames/gmtk2025

Recent bug fixes and changes:

• You can now reset your run in the settings menu
• Increased the delay of movement so accidentally moving twice (due to holding the button down) is less prone to happen.
• Fixed incorrect stat being shown for the Big Stick
  
• Fixed bug where your last Item was not properly carried over to the next loop (including special items like climbing gear or flippers).
• Fixed possible softlock when fighting bosses which resulted in combat not progressing.
• Fixed possible softlock when surrounded by difficult terrain (EG forests or mountains) with only 1 or 2 steps left.
• Updated the 3d8 stat randomization to modify your stats by -18 to 18 instead of setting them. This is because setting your stats is horrible past the first couple loops.
• You can now hover over the clock with your mouse to see behind it.