Grooves
TLDR
You are a celestial architect. Your building blocks are loops.
Click to add/drag loops together. Scroll to zoom in/out for different scale views/loops.
The goal is to get into a flow state (the "groove") making and watching systems of loops and their residents' movements.
What?
You are a celestial architect. Your building blocks are loops.
Every loop has a "resident" that circles around it. When two loops touch, residents move between them.
Make constellations, machines, cities spring to life. Watch residents flow around your system as it grows.
How?
Click anywhere outside of a loop to make a new loop. If you are close to any loops, you will make a smaller loop. If you are far away from other loops, you will make a bigger loop.
Scroll vertically to zoom. Zoom in for finer granularity of control. Zoom out to make the biggest loops.
Drag loops around to change the layout of your system. Dragging a loop will also drag any loops connected to it.
When two loops are close, they will snap together.
Why?
The goal is to get into a flow state (the "groove") making and watching systems of loops and their residents' movements.
Try different colors (in settings - the gear icon in the top right) to feel more immersed and connected.
If you are looking for something more objective - "points of interest" will randomly appear in the middle of loops. If any resident fully travels around a loop, they will have visited the point of interest, and it will disappear. By changing whether residents move between loops (using the spacebar), you can keep residents on a single loop long enough to visit its point of interest.
Specs
Game
- Grooves
- A game where the goal is experiencing a flow state by building constellations of loops (while vibing to a lo-fi loop)
Jam
- GMTK Game Jam 2025
- Theme: Loop
Controls
- Click in empty space to add loops
- Drag loops together
- Drag loops around
- Scroll vertically to zoom in and out
- Press the spacebar to toggle movement between loops
- Press 0 - 5 to change the movement speed
Credits
- Background music by TAD
- SFX & icons by Kenney
Thank you for playing!
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