Pool Loop

» Strategy | Re-Play | GMTK Game Jam

"Cool concept, and the atmosphere is very calming. Simple concept executed in a clever way and I had a great time playing!" - noggin

"This game is so fun, Super creative idea, and I’m obsessed with the sound design—it makes everything feel extra satisfying. Instantly hooked. Amazing work!" - lilushka2017

"not bad"- Guaka

Review

Sasha here! 👋

There were so many games to choose from for GMTK Game Jam 2025.

Too many.

I really wanted to find a short game today. Nothing too distracting but still worth while to take a break for ;) Scrolling though the screenshots on Itch.io I found Pool Loop. I hadn't played a pool game in awhile so I thought I'd give it a shot.

The game is fairly straight forward. Just hit the balls into the hole marked with a flag. After each round each of your past shots are repeated (the looping part) while you take your next shot. There's a teeny bit of strategy when planning out your shots so you don't bind yourself later on but sometimes you can just get unlucky with ball placement.

A saving grace though is that only your current shot needs to go in the proper hole. Any of your last shots can be redirected to a new hole.

I got up to 14 balls before for giving up... maybe you can do better. :)

Other Thoughts

There were 9644 entries this year for the jam. There's a good chance that we might cover another GMTK jam game in the future (just because there's so many of them out there). If you played any interesting ones I'd be interested in checking them out. 🤔

I won't be covering a game jam game Friday, I'll tell ya that much ;)


Talk soon,
Sasha