[This is a solo project. All of the design and programming were created by myself, with art and music outsourced to pre-made assets and credited as appropriate]

Core Design

The core design of Dungeon Looper revolves around a grid-based camera tool that I built myself. Going the extra mile for modularity, the tool can be added to any project and configured to a grid of any size. While the project itself was in Godot, I used a hybrid C# / GDScript implementation for the camera. Although in the future, I will likely translate the tool into just one language.

Demonstration of camera tool in a different project

The player moves through four closed-loop rooms in a top-down perspective. In each room, a set of enemies spawn with a small chance that one of them becomes a health pickup instead. After the player completes a loop (returns to the bottom-left quadrant), the number of enemies spawning in each room increases, raising the difficulty. The player must complete as many loops as they can before dying.

Dungone Looper has a very strong core foundation with many avenues for future scaling. The most obvious features include a leaderboard for comparing results against other players, as well as variety to both enemies and player weapons. These latter two features were planned in the initial design and, while I knew the game jam did not provide enough time to implement them, I still created the infastructure in the code base necessary for such expansion.

I am interested in one day returning to this game to make improvements and expand the idea. But for now, you can play the original version on itch.io: