This Transport-themed gallery unlocks 21 additional levels for WooLoop! Motorised, traditional and modern!
Create imagery of the various fascinating ways to traverse the world!
Available for the price of $0.99, £0.89, (or your regional equivalent). store.steampowered.com/app/2213372
WooLoop V1.3.8 Patch Notes
New Features
New Setting "Disable Timelapse" (default off) - One for the speedrunners, when this setting is enabled, the end-of-level animation is greatly sped up.
New Setting "Show Personal Best" (default off) - When enabled, your personal best times are shown for each level on the Main Menu. Sadly, you will have to launch a level for it to pull the current time before it will become visible. This is because we have only been tracking the current completion time for each individual level, but now we track your personal best as well.
You can now cycle between selected ropes with Q + E.
Main Menu level pictures now show a hint of the level's background colour when complete.
The rope select palette now gets centred in the middle of the screen when there is no scrollbar.
Bug Fixes and Misc
Fixed a bug where you could keep wrapping between the last two instructions without it registering as incorrect.
Adjusted the colours available for New Game Plus customisation. The new colours should be more evenly distributed across the spectrum and New Game Plus 4 now has 12 additional colour options.
Some minor optimisation for more powerful machines, the game now won't use as much CPU.
UI instructions can't hide behind the rope palette anymore.
Level screenshots are now synced with Steam Cloud.
Added milliseconds to the timer.
The game should now attempt to save your level progress if it closes unexpectantly.
Fixed a bug where you could click on the palette when it was invisible.
When you have the Russian language selected, the ability to change the font is disabled. This is due to the current font options don't support Russian characters.
Fixed a bug where holding WASD made the game behave as if the right click was held.
Announcing the Transport DLC
Announcing the Transport Gallery DLC
This Transport themed Gallery unlocks 21 additional levels for WooLoop! All images are of vehicles and modes of transport from throughout the ages!
Drive, Ride and Fly your way through this gallery!
Available for the price of $0.99, £0.89, (or your regional equivalent). The pack will release on the 24th of February at 20:00 UTC/12:00 PDT.
For a chance to win this DLC for FREE, join our Discord and enter the competition!
Fantasy DLC for WooLoop is Out Now!
Fantasy Gallery DLC
This Fantasy themed Gallery unlocks 21 additional levels for WooLoop! All images depict the fantastical, the mystical and the magical!
Dragons, Elves, Magic and much more!
Available for the price of $0.99, £0.89, (or your regional equivalent). store.steampowered.com/app/2213370
WooLoop V1.2.4 Patch Notes
New Features
Added New Fonts! - For those who have been having trouble reading the WooLoop font, this new setting allows you to switch between two new fonts, (open dyslexic and Vaga).
Added new "Disable Cursor Smoothing" setting (default off) - When enabled, the virtual cursor is disabled and the rope will stick to the position of your operating system mouse cursor.
Added content for the new Fantasy Gallery!
Added support for Polish and Czech - A huge thank you to our Community Discord for translating the game into additional languages!
Bug Fixes and Misc
Fixed a bug where the in-game completion percentage would round up when it should round down.
Fixed a bug where people could easily access the Fantasy DLC for free.
Fixed a bug where shadows weren't rendering properly.
Re-organized the Accessibility Settings tab to have subheadings. Hopefully, this change makes the page much easier to read.
Announcing the Fantasy DLC
Announcing the Fantasy Gallery DLC
Thank you all for supporting WooLoop in its first week of release, it means so much to us here at ToastieLabs. If you are already finished with the free levels and are looking for more, we have you covered!
On the 4th Friday of every month this year we will be releasing a new Themed Gallery in the form of a DLC for you to download and play - the first of these is the Fantasy DLC!
This Fantasy themed Gallery unlocks 21 additional levels for WooLoop! All images depict the fantastical, the mystical and the magical!
Dragons, Elves, Magic and much more!
Available for the price of $0.99, £0.89, (or your regional equivalent). The pack will release on the 27th of January at 20:00 UTC/12:00 PDT.
For a chance to win this DLC for FREE, join our Discord and enter the competition!
WooLoop Major Update Patch Notes
First Week is a Success - Thank You!
WooLoop has been downloaded and played by so many of you! Your reception of the game has completely blown us away and we can't thank you enough! ❤
You have all played enough collectively for over 4 and a half years of playtime! For one week of gameplay that is staggering! Well done!
All of your feedback and comments are welcome, thank you to everyone who has helped identify improvements and suggestions for the game, a lot of which we have addressed in this patch. Please keep your comments coming, either on Discord, Steam or even on our Website, so we can keep improving WooLoop to the best of our abilities.
A Note on Achievements
This patch brings Gallery 5, which was missing from the launch of the game. The Gallery has 21 images just like all the rest, however; Only the first 6 levels have achievements tied to them. The reason for this is that we have hit the limit of 100 achievements that are linked to new games.
Once we pass Steam's checks and become an official release on Steam, we will be updating the Achievement list to include the rest of Gallery 5 and beyond. Thank you for your understanding.
Next Weeks DLC
In case you missed it, we have the first DLC for WooLoop releasing next Friday! The Fantasy DLC adds a whole new Gallery to the game with 21 new images for you to Loop!
All images are in the Fantasy Genre so will cover things magical and wonderful from start to finish.
Gallery 5! - We finished the levels for Gallery 5, so there are an additional 17 levels to play!
Dark Mode Improvements - Multiple changes to dark mode, to make the game much easier to play at night!
New "Always Show Rope Length" Setting (Default Off) - When enabled, the currently selected rope length and progress is visible in the top left of the screen. This is also viewable by pressing tab.
Main Menu Scrolling - The main menu gallery scroll position is remembered when you return from a level.
New "Disable Autopanning" Setting (Default Off) - When enabled, the automatic movement you get when completing a rope is disabled.
New "Autopanning Speed" Setting (Default 1x) - Adjusts the speed of the auto movement.
New "Disable Keyboard Cursor Movement" Setting (Default Off) - From this update panning with the keyboard will also move the mouse cursor. Enabling this setting disables the behaviour.
New "Large Cursor" Setting (Default Off) - When enabled, the cursor is swapped with a much larger and visible version.
New "Zoom Speed" Setting (Default 1x) - Alters the speed at which you can zoom in and out of a level.
New "Scroll Speed" Setting (Default 1x) - Alters the speed at scrolling with the mouse wheel affects UI.
Bug Fixes and Misc
Many Localisation Text improvements.
Main Menu Logo Localisation.
Multiple Level Fixes
World Map
Fixed rope instructions around Hungary.
Adjusted pins around Greenland to ensure instructions are correct.
Removed Taiwan. We have received lots of anger and negative reviews regarding Taiwan being represented as a separate country from China. We didn't intend to take a political stance on this issue for one side or the other, it certainly isn't our place. We apologize for any offence we may have caused, and hope that we can put this behind us. Removing the island of Taiwan completely allows us to not be forced to take a side.
hexceed
Added routes for two more hexagons at the top of the level to make the image symmetrical.
Plane Blueprints
Removed unused pins.
Leaves
Adjusted the image's borders so that pins aren't clipping the frame.
Added a route to use the unused pin.
Classic Car
Removed unused pins.
Instant Photo
Removed unused pins.
Spike
Adjusted the rope height on his claws so to avoid clipping.
Diamond
Fixed an inconsistency in the pattern
Fixed a bug where the percentage complete was rounding up and not down for level and gallery completion.
Fixed a bug where the game wouldn't launch on Linux
Major performance improvements for the main menu (specifically loading the level screenshots)
Unselecting rope mid-route now sets the mouse cursor position to the end of the rope instead of the middle of the screen. (Sadly this only works on PC full-screen or borderless fullscreen modes)
Panning with the keyboard now pauses auto panning in a similar way to right-clicking does.
Fixed a bug where Gallery Select buttons wouldn't correctly represent a player's new game plus progress.
When starting a rope, the string now only sticks to the starting instruction. This should make it easier to get started with a route.
The scroll bar you see in the level now uses the correct art assets.
WooLoop is out now!
Play WooLoop Free Now!
The new much-awaited art game, WooLoop is here! Head over to Steam now to Download the game and start playing!
WooLoop is Free so you can add it to your Steam Library at no cost. With other 100 levels to play and unwind to, you can play for hours and hours.
WooLoop
Wrap, weave, and wind your wool! Build works of art strand by strand, one loop at a time, in this tranquil game of craftsmanship. Draw inspiration from the large exhibition of levels available and unwind with the soothing soundtrack.
A Note on Gallery 5
You will notice Gallery 5 is marked as "Coming Soon" - this is because we didn't manage to get every level finished and tested in time for today as we don't believe in the "Crunch culture" that is common in the games industry.
Do not worry though, the Gallery will become available over the next week or so! This means you will be kept supplied with new levels until the 1st DLC releases on the 27th! The Fantasy DLC is coming at the end of January, check out the store page here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2213370/WooLoop__Fantasy_Pack/
Thank you so much for playing WooLoop! Make sure you let us know what you think by leaving a review on Steam and by joining our Discord to join the ongoing conversations we are having with our community! <3
Much Love From, Everyone at ToastieLabs
Only 1 Week until WooLoop!
1 Week to go!
That's right, WooLoop is right around the corner! We are so excited about the release and hope you are too.
Officially releasing next Friday, the 13th of January - A Spooky date for sure with all the nerves we are feeling! Make sure you head over to the store page now to Wishlist the game before release to get notified as soon as you can play.
WooLoop is Free so you can add it to your Steam Library at no cost. With other 100 levels to play and unwind to, you can play for hours and hours.
What's left to do?
3 main things are in progress for release.
Levels
We still have about 1 Gallery's worth of levels to complete for next week; this may seem like a lot which is why we have hired some extra help for the next couple of months! If you are in our Discord you will have seen a "Toastie_Icy" who is our new Level Designer helping Rob make the final levels for WooLoop.
Bug Fixing and QA Testing
Each new level needs playing to ensure there are no problems with the level before launch. As well as this, there are still a few minor bugs that are being corrected; each one needs double-checking and thorough testing.
Marketing
As a small indie company, we have little to no marketing budget, so all marketing is done in-house. This week we went full throttle on our media outreach, contacting numerous press sites, bloggers, content creators and reviewers. This is the majority of the work done but it will need constant monitoring and input from us up to release.
Keep an eye out on your social media, YouTube and Twitch to see people with early access play our game before Friday!
The Game Release
And this is pretty much it! Very exciting times here at ToastieLabs, we are busy and working hard to make sure the game is perfect for release. Join us in Discord and watch gameplay online as we all get ready for launch day next Friday.
Wishlist now and let us know your experiences when you get to play too!
Thank you for your support and we can't wait to see you Looping that Wool!
Happy New Year and Getting Ready for Release!
Happy New Year!
We are all back to work for 2023 and hope you have all had an enjoyable Holiday and New Year!
We have relaxed as much as we can to get ready for the next couple of very busy weeks as we get ready for the release of WooLoop!
Only 10 days until release!
We are counting down the final days until release and we are very excited! We are also very busy with the final preparations.
Rob is currently working through the final graphical bugs we have found in order to make sure the game is as clean as possible for release. Lee is starting all of the contacts and messages to content creators, Steam curators and press companies for our main marketing push.
All that is left is a number of levels that are still left to be made, in order to hit this deadline we are very excited to say we have hired a temporary level designer to help Rob with our level creation!
As we count down the final days to the launch of WooLoop we hope you are as excited to play the final game as we are! Make sure you add WooLoop to your wishlist now to get notified of its release on the 13th of January!
Livestreaming
Make sure you are following us on our Twitch channel to get notified when we go live again this Friday!
We will also be broadcasting gameplay footage here on Steam on launch day!
WooLoop Update and Pricing Model
WooLoop Game Pricing
WooLoop will be Free!
Here at ToastieLabs, we believe games should be for everyone. With that in mind, like some of our other titles on Steam, we release games for free and offer optional DLC at the lowest price we can on Steam $0.99!
The game will be Free and offer 5 Galleries (plus 1 Bonus Gallery) of string art to complete! Each Gallery will contain 21 unique pieces of art for you to create. After some quick maths, this means you will get over 100 levels to play for free when you download WooLoop!
DLC
In order to provide even more levels for you to play, we are committing to offering 12 months of DLC, 1 DLC for each month of 2023! Each DLC will contain a new Gallery of 21 pieces of art, we are going to be offering these DLC at $0.99 (the lowest price Steam allows). Each DLC will launch on the 4th Friday of each month, with the exception of December's planned DLC "Advent", which will feature 24 levels and slight changes to the release schedule which we will confirm at a later date.
Over the course of the 12 months of releases, that will be an additional 255 Levels to play!
We hope this will be plenty to keep you entertained through the year 2023.
Also, make sure to join our Discord as we will be doing monthly giveaways for each DLC!
Game Progress
It has been a hectic couple of weeks where we have made many updates to the appearance of the game in order to look as good as possible for the Game Trailer which we have just started editing!
New Features
Allow players to use Right-Click to move without triggering the UI snap-back
Added toggle click to pick up and put down the rope as an alternative to holding left click
Added background colours to levels
Bug Fixes:
Rope clipping on Tree House Level
Fixed instructions turning yellow when the next instruction is anti-clockwise
Fixed UI instruction wiggle
Fixed off-screen instructions breaking
Most of the adjustments were for visual updates in order to make the game as aesthetic as possible when recording clips for the game trailer which will be released in the coming weeks.
This along with multiple new levels as we are ramping up level creation in preparation for sharing Early Access keys for marketing purposes!
Livestreaming
Make sure you are following us on our Twitch channel to get notified when we go live again this Friday!
WooLoop Progress Update: 23/11/2022
Game Progress
As most of the bug fixing from last week is being tied up, we have moved on to some of the finishing touches!
The UI has been finalised before the next stage of QA testing and we have made a start on the New Game+ mechanics!
New Features
New Game+ Unlocks customisable colours for the ropes!
UI changed to reduce clutter
Color coded clockwise and anti-clockwise
Bug Fixes:
Fixed a bug where the Red X UI sometimes wasn't red.
Fixed new pin resetting the rope colour to grey
As it says above, the big news is that we have added the ability to unlock additional, customisable colours for the ropes in every level which is unlocked via New game+
This is a very exciting direction for us as we have never had a New Game+ mechanic with an actual in-game reward, we hope this is a fun direction to go and we will be thoroughly testing this in this week's QA Livestream
Livestreaming
Make sure you are following us on our Twitch channel to get notified when we go live again this Friday!
