The Loopers

The Loopers is a first-person multiplayer co-op set aboard a corporate recycling starship. Your crew’s job? Sort mountains of alien trash, hit the daily quota, and avoid becoming part of the garbage.

Not all waste is lifeless. Sometimes alien civilizations toss out their own unwanted lifeforms — and it’s your problem now. The rule is simple: three eyes = correct bin, anything else = the other bin. Easy… until the shapeshifting Geybnyuals show up. They can perfectly mimic the three-eyed Bazorkazopls, but they have one fatal weakness: a violent allergy to the number three.

Work together, meet quotas, and try not to get recycled. Remember: happy employee – productive employee.

Features:

• Co-op for up to 12 players
• Private and public lobbies
• Proximity voice chat
• Realistic physics
• Trash sorting and recycling gameplay

Why “The Loopers”?

The name comes from the endless conveyor loop aboard the ship — a constant stream of trash cycling through your workspace. The company likes to say it symbolizes “a perfect flow of productivity.” The crew just knows it means the same thing day after day… until you’re replaced. It’s also what they call the workers stationed at the conveyor: “Loopers.”

The game was created as part of GMTK Jam 2025, where the theme was “Loop.” I took it as both the literal conveyor loop you work on, and the repetitive, inescapable cycle of the job itself.

Credits

• Developed almost entirely solo by Izhard

Assets Used:

• Trash by Anonymous [CC-BY] via Poly Pizza

• Conveyor by Josh [CC-BY] via Poly Pizza

• Low Poly Space Helmet Untextured by SamsCollegeAccount (https://skfb.ly/oOp8M) – Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• Button by jeremy [CC-BY] via Poly Pizza

• Aliens by Quaternius

Special Thanks:

• @M1FX2 – provided the player character model

• @pizdishmot & Gum_ball_Watterson – music and SFX contributions

• BylKim - tests
  

If I forgot anyone, please contact me and I’ll update the credits.