Loops in Water
This game was made by seven motivated people during the GMTK 2025 GameJam.
Update 12.08.2025: The game as been officially udpated with some QoL improvements, balancing, and fixing (hopefully) all of the crucial bugs that we were not able to fix before the jam submission!
Do you remember and miss the nostalgic feel of pressing a button, moving around the little watertank, and trying your best to get the rings on the hooks? Miss no more, as this classic has now been brought back to you - inside your browser! And what is this? A score system? Combos? A shop with upgrades and Pinball-like-bumpers? Wow! Check it out now and see how high you can get it during your session!
The Shop:
Click on the "Hook Length" and "Tank" upgrade to get longer and cooler looking hooks and a better tank!
Drag and drop the other items onto the your tank space where you want to place them!
Controls:
Use "A" and "D" to move the container around - or simple drag it by clicking and holding on it!
To give the loops a push:
Blue Watertank: Press spacebar!
Red Watertank: Press Q & E!
Credits:
Artist, UI Designer & Team Lead
Philipp Kienast
Lead Programmer, Technical Artist
Elias Duda
Programmers
SFX Design & Implementation
Music
Tobias Ungerböck
Underwater Background
Hermes
Made with Unity.
Development log
- Update: 12.08.2025Aug 12, 2025
- Post Mortem GMTK 2025 JamAug 11, 2025
Comments
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Had a lot of fun with the game, though there are a few other loopholes that could be fixed:
- Adding extra hooks in the locations right where the loops spawn leads to easy combos just by lightly shaking the container
- Buying an item in the store then clicking to buy it again while still holding the item on the cursor leads to a bug that decreases its price
Thanks for the notice! Noted and will be addressed in another update :)
Badum!
godtier game immediately elevated by gay sticker
It plays EXACTLY like one of those things it's supposed to be hahahaha cool game
yes we tweaked the feeling a lot so it's satisfying and realistic! Thank you :)
absolutely WONDERFUL. i fucking love water loop game. brings me right back to my childhood. i always had a two-button toy as a kid so its sad that the upgraded version is broken ingame but thats okay. i am in love with the visuals and the graphics and the physics and this may become my new 'nothing to do on the train im so bored' activity
Thank you so much! This was exactly intended as a casual, fun, side-game for when you want to pass some time.
We are also very sad that the second tank breaks the game, but that's something we will definitely address after the voting period, so check it out again afterwards, and enjoy your train rides with some digital nostalgia. :)
Tsukuyomi would be PISSED of if you whipped this thing out during the date.
This game makes me nostalgic, it takes you back to childhood. I like how you can move the tank like you'd do in real life :) the idea is really nice :D
This game really takes you back to childhood. cool idea, thanks for your work. seriously top notch and the art is five stars!
Thank you so much! I am glad we got people to feel nostalgic and that they like my artwork! :)
The idea is cool, and the game looks incredible, but I do have a few problems, the upgrade tank in my opinion is a downgrade, you lose most of your loops and it adds an LGB sticker thing which is evil in the eyes of God, therefore I don't like it. Also the gameplay loop is just not that fun. But I hope God saves you guys nonetheless. Good job!
would agree if they weren't homophobic
I'm not trying to be mean or anything, just the Bible says sexual sin is bad, which LGB advocates for, so it's not me that's 'homophobic', it's God. Which what does that even mean anyways? I don't want to let the LGB people go to hell? Is that what it means? Because I actually care about them, and seek their salvation?
First of all, it's LGBT.
Second of all, the Bible isn't too be taken directly word for word. If you disagree, look up Exodus 21:20-21, which describes how to beat your slaves correctly.
Third of all, if an LGBT sticker, which I didn't even notice, provokes this reaction in you, you need to seek professional help.
In Exodus 21 God is setting boundaries on owning slaves, and He's not telling them they should own them, that's just how it was back then. In Matthew 19:8 Jesus explains that God allowed something that He didn't want to be allowed because of the evil of the hearts of His people, so this case is a similar situation to that. Also how would you take 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 as not directly word for word? You can't say that it doesn't condemn sin (including homosexuality). And also, according to you I shouldn't seek the salvation of others? Also don't think I hate LGBT people, I love them and seek for them to be saved.
If we’re going to follow 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 literally, are we also following all the verses about mixed fabric, seafood, and stoning people (Leviticus 19:19, Leviticus 11:10-12, Deuteronomy 22:20-21)? If not, why are we selectively using the Bible to justify gay people not existing?
You're making such a difference by telling people that they need to be saved. Obviously, shitting on people would help them become christians. You're not preaching, you're just complaining about others.
This idea looks hilarious but unfortunately the window is stuck at the Unity loading screen.
oh really? that sucks, we tried it on multiple devices, even phones and seemed to work there, but I guess can't find all the problems! Maybe itch.io is overloaded right now