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WooLoop is out now!

Play WooLoop Free Now!

The new much-awaited art game, WooLoop is here! Head over to Steam now to Download the game and start playing!



WooLoop is Free so you can add it to your Steam Library at no cost. With other 100 levels to play and unwind to, you can play for hours and hours.

[h2]WooLoop[/h2]
Wrap, weave, and wind your wool! Build works of art strand by strand, one loop at a time, in this tranquil game of craftsmanship. Draw inspiration from the large exhibition of levels available and unwind with the soothing soundtrack.

[h2]A Note on Gallery 5[/h2]
You will notice Gallery 5 is marked as "Coming Soon" - this is because we didn't manage to get every level finished and tested in time for today as we don't believe in the "Crunch culture" that is common in the games industry.

Do not worry though, the Gallery will become available over the next week or so! This means you will be kept supplied with new levels until the 1st DLC releases on the 27th!
The Fantasy DLC is coming at the end of January, check out the store page here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2213370/WooLoop__Fantasy_Pack/


Thank you so much for playing WooLoop! Make sure you let us know what you think by leaving a review on Steam and by joining our Discord to join the ongoing conversations we are having with our community!
Much Love From,
Everyone at ToastieLabs

Only 1 Week until WooLoop!

1 Week to go!

That's right, WooLoop is right around the corner! We are so excited about the release and hope you are too.

Officially releasing next Friday, the 13th of January - A Spooky date for sure with all the nerves we are feeling! Make sure you head over to the store page now to Wishlist the game before release to get notified as soon as you can play.



WooLoop is Free so you can add it to your Steam Library at no cost. With other 100 levels to play and unwind to, you can play for hours and hours.

What's left to do?

3 main things are in progress for release.

[h3]Levels[/h3] We still have about 1 Gallery's worth of levels to complete for next week; this may seem like a lot which is why we have hired some extra help for the next couple of months! If you are in our Discord you will have seen a "Toastie_Icy" who is our new Level Designer helping Rob make the final levels for WooLoop.

[h3]Bug Fixing and QA Testing[/h3] Each new level needs playing to ensure there are no problems with the level before launch. As well as this, there are still a few minor bugs that are being corrected; each one needs double-checking and thorough testing.

[h3]Marketing[/h3] As a small indie company, we have little to no marketing budget, so all marketing is done in-house. This week we went full throttle on our media outreach, contacting numerous press sites, bloggers, content creators and reviewers. This is the majority of the work done but it will need constant monitoring and input from us up to release.

Keep an eye out on your social media, YouTube and Twitch to see people with early access play our game before Friday!


The Game Release

And this is pretty much it! Very exciting times here at ToastieLabs, we are busy and working hard to make sure the game is perfect for release. Join us in Discord and watch gameplay online as we all get ready for launch day next Friday.

Wishlist now and let us know your experiences when you get to play too!

Thank you for your support and we can't wait to see you Looping that Wool!

Happy New Year and Getting Ready for Release!

Happy New Year!

We are all back to work for 2023 and hope you have all had an enjoyable Holiday and New Year!

We have relaxed as much as we can to get ready for the next couple of very busy weeks as we get ready for the release of WooLoop!

Only 10 days until release!

We are counting down the final days until release and we are very excited!
We are also very busy with the final preparations.

Rob is currently working through the final graphical bugs we have found in order to make sure the game is as clean as possible for release.
Lee is starting all of the contacts and messages to content creators, Steam curators and press companies for our main marketing push.

All that is left is a number of levels that are still left to be made, in order to hit this deadline we are very excited to say we have hired a temporary level designer to help Rob with our level creation!



As we count down the final days to the launch of WooLoop we hope you are as excited to play the final game as we are! Make sure you add WooLoop to your wishlist now to get notified of its release on the 13th of January!


Livestreaming

Make sure you are following us on our Twitch channel to get notified when we go live again this Friday!

We will also be broadcasting gameplay footage here on Steam on launch day!

WooLoop Update and Pricing Model

WooLoop Game Pricing


WooLoop will be Free!

Here at ToastieLabs, we believe games should be for everyone. With that in mind, like some of our other titles on Steam, we release games for free and offer optional DLC at the lowest price we can on Steam $0.99!

The game will be Free and offer 5 Galleries (plus 1 Bonus Gallery) of string art to complete! Each Gallery will contain 21 unique pieces of art for you to create.
After some quick maths, this means you will get over 100 levels to play for free when you download WooLoop!

[h2]DLC[/h2]
In order to provide even more levels for you to play, we are committing to offering 12 months of DLC, 1 DLC for each month of 2023!
Each DLC will contain a new Gallery of 21 pieces of art, we are going to be offering these DLC at $0.99 (the lowest price Steam allows).
Each DLC will launch on the 4th Friday of each month, with the exception of December's planned DLC "Advent", which will feature 24 levels and slight changes to the release schedule which we will confirm at a later date.

Over the course of the 12 months of releases, that will be an additional 255 Levels to play!

We hope this will be plenty to keep you entertained through the year 2023.

Also, make sure to join our Discord as we will be doing monthly giveaways for each DLC!

Game Progress

It has been a hectic couple of weeks where we have made many updates to the appearance of the game in order to look as good as possible for the Game Trailer which we have just started editing!

New Features
  • Allow players to use Right-Click to move without triggering the UI snap-back
  • Added toggle click to pick up and put down the rope as an alternative to holding left click
  • Added background colours to levels

Bug Fixes:
  • Rope clipping on Tree House Level
  • Fixed instructions turning yellow when the next instruction is anti-clockwise
  • Fixed UI instruction wiggle
  • Fixed off-screen instructions breaking


Most of the adjustments were for visual updates in order to make the game as aesthetic as possible when recording clips for the game trailer which will be released in the coming weeks.

This along with multiple new levels as we are ramping up level creation in preparation for sharing Early Access keys for marketing purposes!


Livestreaming

Make sure you are following us on our Twitch channel to get notified when we go live again this Friday!

WooLoop Progress Update: 23/11/2022

Game Progress

As most of the bug fixing from last week is being tied up, we have moved on to some of the finishing touches!

The UI has been finalised before the next stage of QA testing and we have made a start on the New Game+ mechanics!

New Features
  • New Game+ Unlocks customisable colours for the ropes!
  • UI changed to reduce clutter
  • Color coded clockwise and anti-clockwise

Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a bug where the Red X UI sometimes wasn't red.
  • Fixed new pin resetting the rope colour to grey


As it says above, the big news is that we have added the ability to unlock additional, customisable colours for the ropes in every level which is unlocked via New game+

This is a very exciting direction for us as we have never had a New Game+ mechanic with an actual in-game reward, we hope this is a fun direction to go and we will be thoroughly testing this in this week's QA Livestream


Livestreaming

Make sure you are following us on our Twitch channel to get notified when we go live again this Friday!