WooLoop News

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

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!

Steam Next Fest is a multi-day celebration where fans can try out demos, chat with developers, watch live streams, and learn about upcoming games on Steam.

We are very excited to be taking part with WooLoop!

From today all the way to the 10th of October you can download demos of all games taking part to try for yourself! Give WooLoop a download and let us know what you think!


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



WooLoop is a game of creation. You build great works of art by dragging your yarn in loops around various pins in your canvas. Slowly, one thread at a time, patterns will form until you eventually construct a beautifully woven masterpiece.



Inspired by our community of players who enjoy creative, relaxing games. We wanted to design something brand new that scratches the same itch, so when you play WooLoop, make sure you are ready to unwind for the day and settle back to the soothing music and relaxing gameplay!



During the Steam Next Fest we will be broadcasting the game live twice!

• Tuesday the 4th of October at 7pm BST (11am PT)
  
• Thursday the 6th of October at 1pm BST (5am PT)
  

Stop by for these live streams to say hi to the developers who will be playing the game and active in the chat - we will be streaming for around an hour and will be available to answer any and all of your questions.

If you can't make the live streams, make sure to join our Discord server or follow us on social media where we are always available to talk and keep you up-to-date with any updates!



The demo available now is not the full game that you will get upon release.
The Demo includes 18 different art pieces for you to enjoy, a small portion of the images that will be available with the release of WooLoop.

WooLoop is planned to be released in January 2023, not that long away! The game will be Free when released. If you really enjoy playing the Free game, additional DLC will be available over the following 12 months for you to purchase more levels to keep you winding and looping.

The exact number of art pieces per DLC is yet to be finalised as we are still collecting data on playtime and what images are most enjoyable to play.
With this in mind, please note that when you finish playing the Demo, you will be prompted to fill in an optional questionnaire about your experience with WooLoop. We will be very appreciative if you are able to take 5 minutes to let us know about your time playing - most of the improvements we have made to WooLoop over the past couple of weeks have come directly from our player's feedback!

We will be collecting and analysing all of your responses over the week of Next Fest and will post an update on what changes and features we are going to make based on your feedback.


From all 3 of us here at ToastieLabs,
Thank you very much for checking out the WooLoop Demo Stay Toastie!

Steam Next Fest is a multi-day celebration where fans can try out demos, chat with developers, watch live streams, and learn about upcoming games on Steam.

We are very excited to announce that we are taking part with our newest game, WooLoop.

From the 3rd of October to the 10th of October you can download a demo of the game for free for you to try it for yourself!


During the Steam Next Fest, we will be streaming on 2 separate occasions!
We are scheduled to go live on:

• Tuesday the 4th of October at 7PM BST
  
• Thursday the 6th of October at 1PM BST
  

Unlike our previous developer streams here on Steam, the purpose of these live streams is not to QA the game but to show off what the game has to offer and, more importantly, interact with you!

Stop by to say hello and ask any questions you may have regarding us and our Games.


As well as watching us play our relaxing new game, we invite you to download the Demo for free so you can experience WooLoop first-hand.

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

Once you have given the Demo a try, let us know what you think, most of the updates we have added over the last couple of weeks have been directly from the player feedback, we can't thank you all enough!

You can give us feedback on the after-game questionnaire or you can jump into our Community Discord Server and chat with us at any time!

Wishlist WooLoop now to stay up-to-date with development all the way to launch in January 2023!