Root & Rope by Alexascher
Deep in a dark cave, far from the eyes of ordinary people, a gnome has grown hungry. He knows there’s food below, but the path is full of dangers. Luckily, the gnome is skilled with a rope.


* Controls: *
⬅️➡️ - Move
Space - Jump / Attach rope / Deattach rope
⬆️⬇️ - Climb up and down the rope
* Team: * - Balakchin Victor - code - Mosin Alexander - gamedesign - Scherbakov Alexander - art
* Music: * Kevin MacLeod - Anguish
| Link | https://ingiorn.itch.io/root-rope |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/root-rope |
Ratings
| Overall | 74th | 4.111⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 105th | 3.944⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 254th | 3.556⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 454th | 3.667⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 157th | 4.222⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 406th | 3.611⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 2🗳️ | 6🗨️ |
Overall, cool game and fun to play.
Everything is put together to an excellent degree. I wanted to play more levels, great job!
I was stuck on level 7, and then when understood the solution, was pleasantly surprised even more.
Level design was great, I do feel difficulty spiked suddenly on 7, as 8 did not feel nearly as complicated with the spikes as 7 did. I would have probably swaped those two levels sort of to keep difficulty level a bit more gradual. Either way, it was fun - voted and liked it! Nom nom!
Loved the art as well, loved 'em spooky bats in the background too ♥
The only thing I don't understand is how the mechanics of unhooking from the rope works, sometimes it happens by accident. Nice!
My one piece of feedback is to make the rope attach/unattach buttons different than the jump button, a couple times I went to jump I took the rope with me LOL :sweat_smile: