Loopbeat Café

Welcome to Loopbeat Café!

In this 2D simulation puzzle game, you will craft rhythms and beat the drums to serve the café's customers your best freshly-refrigerated cakes and mugs with coffee.

Produced for GMTK Game Jam 2025
See the results (my best jam yet!)

Features

• 19 unique levels, each with their own gimmicks
• Original art & music (sound loop?)
• Cakes, coffee and bread

Controls

• Mouse & left-click for most operations

If you got really stuck...

• Try holding [F]... to skip the level.

Cheat sheet

• discrete beat → move forward
• consecutive beats → flip around
• drum beat → rotate 90°

Post-jam Update

After the Jam is finished I updated the HTML5 version of the game. These are quality-of-life updates / bugfixes that do not change the game as a whole. Changelog:

• Added a level-select / audio control menu;
• Fixed typoes in introduction dialogue & hints, and improved hints for some levels;
• Some very minor changes to level layouts (the puzzles are NOT changed);
• Fixed a bug in Level 11 that disabled game progress entirely.
• Fixed incorrect bubble visuals in Level 17.
• Added bubbles in levels where they are missing.

If you want to try out the original (buggy) version, please download the Windows/Mac builds. Note that I haven't run those builds ever; not surprised if they don't even launch.

Known issues

We have a lot of glitches here. The game was kinda finished, but some resources aren't properly configured and do not show up; I also ran out of time to properly do playtesting, so...

• ISSUE ON BROWSER: if you see the character moves incorrectly on the first and second beats (moving or rotating twice, in one step), switch to another browser tab, and then switch back. This seems to be a glitch caused by Godot engine itself, and I haven't found a way to patch it yet.
  • Example of glitchy behavior: (switch tab to fix)
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• [Jam version] Level 11 (shown below) has a glitch that disabled game progress.
  You can still try to solve the puzzle, but the checkout counter won't work. You can also hold [F] to skip the level.
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• [Jam version] Level 17 (shown below) shows icons in the wrong order.
  The counter at the bottom should be bread; the one on the right should be cake.
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• The Windows & Mac ports has not been thoroughly play-tested; the  browser HTML5 version is still recommended!

Credits

• Game design, program, artwork, music by zenk
• Using Godot 4 Engine
• Using Godot Dialogue Manager by nathanhoad
• Font "Arial Rounded MT Bold"
• Extra art (one customer sprite) by Fl1ppy