# loops

**Repository Path**: mirrors_thejoshwolfe/loops

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: loops
- **Description**: yet another rotate-tiles-to-connect-loops game
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-09-26
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-22

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# Loops

yet another rotate-tiles-to-connect-loops game.

Inspired by:

 * [Loops of Zen](https://www.kongregate.com/games/ahnt/loops-of-zen) (flash)
 * [Curvy in HTML5](http://www.flaminglunchbox.net/curvy)

## Live Demo

https://wolfesoftware.com/loops/

## Version History

#### 1.5.1

2023-Mar-04

* Custom levels are perfectable if they're 6x6 or larger, toroidal, with locking tiles and either:
    * Single color and hexagonal or:
    * Don't include the locked island.
* No, there is no UI indication for perfectable level settings; it's an easter egg!

#### 1.5.0

2023-Mar-03

* Swap levels 16-21 with 22-27 to introduce toroidal topology before locking tiles.
    * If your current level was in this range, you'll be reset back to level 16.
* Custom level mode available in the sidebar.
    * Allows you to turn off locking tiles.
    * Allows extreme sized levels.
    * Allows toroidal topology without a starter island (hard mode!).
    * (Does not allow toroidal topology with odd sizes. It's complicated.)
    * Settings are unlocked as you encounter them in the linear level progression.
    * Resume linear levels by collapsing the `Custom Level` settings.
* Level select available in the side bar to revisit previous levels.

#### 1.4.0

2023-Feb-11

 * Unlock alternate tile sets at the end of the game.

#### 1.3.0

2020-May-03

 * The final level gives a hint that you didn't
   obviously waste clicks.

#### 1.2.0

2019-Sep-21

 * The game state now saves and loads on page refresh,
   not just the level number (using `localStorage`).

#### 1.1.0

2019-Sep-20

 * The end game now stays on cement-mode, single-color (2 state), hexagonal, toroidal, rough island,
   instead of looping through a tour of all the settings.

#### 1.0.2

2019-Sep-20

 * Fix background of main game when the browser is in dark mode.
   The game always has a light-mode theme for now.

#### 1.0.0

2019-Sep-20

 * Use version numbers

#### before 1.0.0

 * Square tiling
 * Hex tiling
 * One color (2 possible states per edge)
 * Two color without overlap (3 states)
 * Two color with overlap (4 states)
 * Cement mode (tiles lock after you touch them)
 * Rough edges (the edge can be locked tiles instead of always blank)
 * Toroidal topoly (loops left/right and up/down)
 * Island of locked tiles in the middle of toroidal levels
 * "Smell the roses" after completing a level before the transition to the next level

Project first started 2018-Aug-24.

## Development

Dependencies:

* npm (for development and building) (or any other way to run the TypeScript compiler)
* python3 (for http server on localhost) (or anything else that does this)
* s3cmd (for deployment to S3)

In NixOS:

* `nix-shell --pure -p nodejs -p python3 -p s3cmd`

To build:

```
./build.sh

# alternatively:
npm install
./node_modules/.bin/tsc
```

To serve on http://localhost:8000/ :

```
python3 -m http.server -d public/
```