Details
Title
Loco Looper
Developer
James Vanas
Location
Aotearoa / New Zealand
Contact
james@therenothere.games
Social Media
Twitter: @jamesvanas
Game Website
locolooper.com
Platforms
iPhone - iOS 15.5
iPad - iPadOS 15.5
Release Date
June 17 2022
Launch Price
$3.99 USD
€3.99 EUR
Download
App Store Link
Description
Loco Looper is an original puzzle game designed for iPhone and iPad. Make a perfect train track using up all the pieces. It has trains, fluffy clouds, planets, stars. Even a seagull. Cute, cerebral fun that’s trickier than it looks!
History
Loco Looper was designed and written by James Vanas as a long term passion project.
Designed for touch screens, an innovative “finger painting” control scheme was developed to lay down and replace track as fast as possible. Without it gameplay would be near impossible with the scale of some of the puzzles.
Loco Looper’s custom 3D game engine was written mostly in Swift and Metal to squeeze out as much performance as possible from mobile hardware. This also allowed for more experimental features like the neat 3D Holographic / Parallax effect which gives the illusion of real 3D screen depth.
Features
A new type of puzzle game, where there’s hundreds of possible solutions to the harder levels, yet it’s a brain teaser to find just one.
Handcrafted levels, each a pen & ink style love letter to mini dioramas and trains.
Over 100 levels, with more in the development pipeline.
A neat 3D effect makes the game naturally POP when holding your device (no face tracking required).
Chaotic coop solving together via local bluetooth or Game Center.
Compare solutions with your Game Center friends.
Actual quotes from early access players:
“This is harder than it looks!”
”And I was worried the game would be too easy 😂”
”I came for the graphics, stayed for the gameplay!”
”YES!!!” (shouted across a BBQ gathering when a difficult level was solved)
