Small Problems To Grapple With by Tetracold
Meet Scroob the frog
In the city even small guys like Scroob can have big problems to deal with, especially with the flood season coming and those pesky bees flying all over the place. Thankfully Scroob has his trusty hook to help him grapple with the challenges ahead!
How To Play:
In this this chaotic grappling hook platformer the goal is to see how high you can climb before the flood catches up to you. You can latch onto platforms even if they are off screen. Keep in mind the game tracks the score based on the current distance form the water, the further you are the bigger it gets.
You can slow down time and make shots easier by holding right click, the energy bar refills automatically.
You can also use the while borders on the edges and the red fly enemies to grapple off of.
Controls:
| Action | Controls | | -------------------| -----------------------| | Move | Left right or A D | | Jump | Up or W | | Grapple | Left Click | | Slowdown Time | Right Click | | Dive | Spacebar |
Credits:
All the assets have either been drawn by hand or through heavily editing free images.
- Tetracold: Director, Artist
- Domalomn: Lead programmer
- Parzival: Programmer
- Roasted: Music
- Sightseeker : Concept art for background and various assets
ALSO YOU SHOULD CONSIDER INVESTING IN GREENCOIN!
| Web Build | https://tetracold.itch.io/small-prroblems-to-grapple-with |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/small-problems-to-grapple-with |
Ratings
| Overall | 263th | 3.839⭐ | 61🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 250th | 3.733⭐ | 62🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 355th | 3.525⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 766th | 3.375⭐ | 62🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 89th | 4.434⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 250th | 3.686⭐ | 61🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 338th | 3.406⭐ | 55🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 403th | 3.682⭐ | 57🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 71🗳️ | 114🗨️ |
I really liked the graphics in the game. The musical accompaniment is cool. However, I did not have enough sound settings and full-screen mode (sometimes the game window was minimized because of this).
My record is 26 cm. I guess I'm not a pro)))
Thanks for the gaming experience!
@tryam We didn't have time to implement some options but we may release a patch that will add those soon as well as make some small tweaks to the controls and enemies
@skbadger congrats haha that's higher than I got
@lucy-z Thanks a lot! I am happy that people like the artstyle I put together so far
Good job for the game
Also thanks for the complements on the artsyle!!
About the artsyle, I can see a little what you mean about the background being just slightly distracting, that's on of the reasons why we added the shaders on the frog sprite
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On the game itself:
Loved the art style and the loop, it was a bit confusing to figure out exactly what kills the bugs, could've had more feedback/juice on that. But really enjoyed grappling around and I enjoyed the protagonist very much!
Good job!
"I have an independent static body that launches out in a direction, and when it hits a spot, it puts the user into a grappling state where they're sent going straight for the point of grappling
When get within around 50 pixels of range of that point or collide with something, if they're moving upwards, they do a little jump which helps with platforming and also feels better"
Hope it helps!
heart heart (here is a doodle for you XP)
Maybe slowing down music when slowing down time? cause i couldnt figure out what that does for some time-
i could get to 60, but at that point the bugs always harrass me to death- Couldnt even get to the funny number T_T prolly skill issue tho, the game is awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rpxqy9wGWE
~XpMonster
Frog with a Hookshot, that is what I was thinking all the time.
I LOVED the Art concept of the game... verry cleaver.
Zooming around with the grappling hook is so much fun, especially when you really get into the flow (and I really love grappling hooks!).
But holy shit, some of those bees seem to have a serious grudge. Like ... as long as I'm moving around fast and am lucky enough it's okay but once I slow down a bit or run out of luck and they start swarming me it can be really hard to get back into it once they start knocking my poor frog around.
~~I may or may not have let out some really undignified "nooooo"s when they knocked me around a bit too much and my frog fell right into the water haha~~
All in all, a really cool entry! Well done!
Also it makes me very happy that you liked the artstyle, I wanted it to be interesting and seeing such a positive reaction is amazing
I was actually getting really into it since the game is set up so you can kind of get into a trance. I made it into 80cm or so before the bees started just swarming me too much. I had quite a lot of fun with this game, great job!
it lack just a sound for when the grapple run out of power because sometime when i clicked and nothing happened i didnt know if i was a bug or a lack of power.
else its a great entry ! :)
big congrats on the game!