WooLoop News

We have had a busy week making progress on WooLoop, the big changes we have made are:

• End-of-level animation has been implemented
  
• Improved the background design in level
  
• Changed the framing of the artwork
  
• Made a good start on Saving and Loading
  

The end-of-level animation can be seen here, please note, image quality is lost in the GIF compression


Work is continuing this week on the saving and loading along with an overhaul to the UI with the help of our artist Jack.


Last week we tested out Livestreaming to both Steam and Twitch at the same time. This was our first attempt at multi-streaming and our first time streaming to a different platform.

The testing went well and we are scheduled to stream bi-weekly on Fridays starting next week, Friday the 28th. Tune in on Twitch to chat with us live!

Tune in to see development progress from QA testing, new feature display, to potential level design showcasing in the future!



As development continues, we are starting our marketing and additional research. A part of this is the creation of Merch items to line up with our other game titles. The merch won't be available yet but you can check out our Store page here to see what we have on offer.

From all 3 of us here at ToastieLabs, thank you for stopping by during the October Next Fest and playing our game, WooLoop! ❤

[h3]The Numbers[/h3]

• A staggering 3000 people played the Demo over the course of the week.
  
• Around 15,000 people had a quick look at our Live Broadcasts over the week (Totaling around 27 hours of watch time 😮)
  
• Over 1000 of you have added WooLoop to your Steam Wishlist, thank you!
  
• Last but certainly not least, around 300 of you took the time to fill in the feedback form to give us your input on how we can improve the final release - not including those of you who have joined our evergrowing Community Discord server to say a few words and join the ongoing conversation.
  

All of this makes us even more excited to work on WooLoop as we are taking your feedback on board for the January release.



Behind the scenes, we spent all week collecting and analysing your feedback. Here is a snippet of the things we have taken on board for development (plus some extra we already had in the pipeline)

• Save Files - This is a given for a complete game, don't worry that these are missing from the Demo
  
• Alternate Controls - Many players reported that holding to drag the Wool can be strenuous, we are committing to improving the control system to make it easier.
  
• Zoom Alterations - We are going to give the player more control over how the Zooming works
  
• Visual updates to the Background and Frames - this is an additional method alongside a better Dark Mode to make the game less bright.
  
• Even better instructions - We made last-minute updates to the instructions before the Next Fest began but from your feedback we know we can make these even better!
  
• Plus even more!
  

Following the Feedback and project planning we have done this week, we are approaching finalising the facts and figures for the full release of WooLoop.
We are sticking to a January 2023 release and committing to adding all of the feedback above to the game before release.

In case you haven't played the WooLoop Demo yet, make sure you download the game now as we will be shutting off access to the Demo sometime next Monday (17th Oct). There is still time to let us know what you think and influence the development of the game!

Pricing, DLC size and Free game content are still being worked out this week as we need to finish collecting average play time per level. Something we admittedly forgot to include in the feedback form.

We will be fully announcing all of the information and what to expect in the coming weeks as we move on to our next stage of marketing and development.
To make sure you don't miss out, make sure you have WooLoop added to your wishlist and join us in Discord, on YouTube or on any of our other socials!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1878910/WooLoop/

Thanks again for playing WooLoop!
Stay Toastie!

We are live streaming the WooLoop Demo again! For around 1 hour, starting at 1PM BST, stop by to chat.

Come along to watch the developers play the Demo of WooLoop and ask any questions you may have. Chat interaction will be taking part for the whole duration of the broadcast so please don't be shy and say hello!

All feedback is welcome!

If you cannot make this stream and have missed both of our Broadcasts this week, join our Discord server where you can chat with the Developers in dedicated WooLoop chat rooms - we are active in there from Monday to Friday every week.

Full details on WooLoop are available on the store page and on your socials.

Wishlist WooLoop now to stay up-to-date with the development for the game launch in January 2023!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1878910

WooLoop will be Free when released!

We're only 3 days through the Steam Next Fest and we are blown away by your reception and appreciation of WooLoop! 🤎

We worked tirelessly over the past week to make sure the Demo was as ready as it could be, taking players' feedback on board we added new features to make the gameplay smoother and more relaxing. As well as tackling a number of pesky bugs.

Based on your community feedback, Rob has made some considerable changes to the game which you can see below.



[h2]New Features[/h2]

• Added a new Accessibility tab in the Settings menu
  
• Added a new setting "Edge Of Screen Panning" (defaulted to on) - When enabled, the screen can pan when you reach the edge of the screen with a rope.
  
• Added a new setting "Panning Speed" (defaulted to 1x) - This setting lets you control the speed at which the edge of the screen panning setting and keyboard controls move the camera.
  
• Added a new setting "Dark Mode" (defaulted to off) - Requested by our community, so we did it

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Edge of screen panning changes
  
  • It now works when you have let go of the rope
    
  • We have also shortened the distance from the edge of the window before it activates
    
  • It now stops when the game loses focus
• Major improvements to the responsiveness and visibility of instructions
  
  • Reduced the number of upcoming instructions visible at once
    
  • The changing colour of instructions is much more responsive. Now light blue should always be the instruction you need to complete, and dark blue is a previous instruction.
    
  • When an instruction is offscreen, if it is light blue it will always be full scale
• Main Menu Scroll bars have been added
  
• Main Menu scroll speed has been increased
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Reduced Panning Speed and made slight adjustments based on how zoomed in you are
  
• Fixed multiple occurrences of anticlockwise instructions sometimes being incorrect
  

More Next Fest!
We were amazed at how well you all seemed to enjoy our live broadcast yesterday, we have a second live stream scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday the 6th at 1pm BST. Make sure you stop by again to say hello and get involved with any questions you may have for us, the developers.

The Demo itself will be live for another week or so, so make sure you download the demo whilst you still can and let us know what you think. We are spending the week analysing all the data and feedback we get from players and will be posting a wrap-up of all our findings. This will let you know what improvements to the game we will be making for the full release in January based on your own feedback!

Thank you all for playing!

Add WooLoop to your wishlist now to follow along with our journey to release in 2023!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1878910

We are live streaming the WooLoop Demo for roughly 1 hour, starting at 7PM BST.

Come along to watch the developers play the Demo of WooLoop and ask any questions you may have. Chat interaction will be taking part for the whole duration of the broadcast so please don't be shy and say hello!

All feedback is welcome!

If you can not make the stream today we are streaming again on Thursday at 1PM BST so you can stop by then to get involved.

Full details on WooLoop are available on the store page and on your socials.

Wishlist WooLoop now to stay up-to-date with the development for the game launch in January 2023!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1878910