Welcome to Recurra! A planet full of a special ore: Cyclenite. (And iron..?)

Build and expand using programmable robots that repeat instructions !

Overview

Loop Colony is a 2D Top Down outer space factory game where you program robots to do the job for you ! Robots execute their commands in an infinite loop with a set timing, and machines can produce items in a specific timing, but the time base is common to every object !

The goal ? Be the most efficient possible by syncing the timing of your bots and the machines !

Shop

Click the square in the bottom left to open the shop. Here, you can buy new robots or machines !

Each element costs some currency, you can view what you have in the top left.

Commands

Use WASD or arrow keys to pan the camera and look for ores or expand elsewhere !

Click a robot to start open its config menu. Drag and drop commands from the drawer and place them in the available space on the left. You can also drag commands to rearrange them.

When a robot is exactly next to a building, the Withdraw / Deposit action will interact accordingly with the building !

The instructions repeat infinitely!

Machines / Buildings / Items

You can find multiple buildings available:

- Cyclenite Ore deposits (generated randomly at start)
- Iron Ore deposits (more common than cyclenite)
- Seller (sells items that robots deposit into)
- Storage (robots deposit their held items in there, or retrieve the first available element, depending on if their hands are full or not when interacting)
- Refinery (able to refine some ores into better materials)
- Alloy smelter (able to make more advanced recipes)

You can also craft the following items:
- Iron Ingot from Rough Iron
- Refined Cyclenite from Rough Cyclenite
- Loopite Ingot from Iron Ingot and Refined Cyclenite

Entry for GMTK Game Jam 2025.