Loop Hero, the game about watching a character walk in a loop and fight a slate of increasingly difficult monsters, has been one of 2021's unexpected success stories. The first version of what would eventually become Loop Hero was an experiment born out of a game jam, an entry into the 2019 Ludum Dare jam, but it had one big problem: it didn't work.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dpxnb/how-the-loop-hero-devs-pitched-a-hit-game-thats-impossible-to-describe
