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The ropes feel good!\nGood work and good luck!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":623910,"author_name":"Sbug","author_uid":"sbug","epoch":1619427365,"text":"Really fun game! I always love a good grappling hook :)\nThe graphics do need some work. They have a cool early PC graphics look which I kinda like, but with the amount it's zoomed out on a modern monitor it can get pretty hard to see what's going on.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":624057,"author_name":"rhys_vdw","author_uid":"rhys-vdw","epoch":1619428692,"text":"I really like this concept. Unfortunately the performance hinders the feeling of free-swinging physics. The miniscule graphics are a bit of a problem, but I kind of liked the clarity of the bright colored tiles.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":624423,"author_name":"LDJam user 240168","author_uid":"240168","epoch":1619431588,"text":"Loved the concept! Reached a depth of 418m. The movement felt a little too slow, but still fun. I'd say that some sound effects would be cool, since I didn't even realize that some things were decreasing my HP :) It is also possible to just fall down most of the time, ignoring enemies & traps completely, so maybe the level generation needs more work. Anyways, great job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":626540,"author_name":"RuslanCH","author_uid":"ruslanch","epoch":1619446266,"text":"cool idea","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":626573,"author_name":"LDJam user 243489","author_uid":"243489","epoch":1619446473,"text":"Got to 385!\nSurprisingly fun, screwed with my instinctual use of grappling hooks from terraria but I caught on eventually\nWas happy to see enemies can die to spikes as well, though I feel like grappling an enemy to a wall shouldn't neutralise them forever(unless it's already on a timer, in which case the time to ungrapple is too long), so you have more incentive to get terrain kills","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":626680,"author_name":"Tezza48","author_uid":"tezza48","epoch":1619447120,"text":"The graphics are really clear, There's no distinct theme but it would fit in among older titles on DOS etc.\n\nI can see myself getting really good at speedshotting around the place.\n\nWould be good to have a key which cuts all grapples at once.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":627396,"author_name":"LDJam user 235146","author_uid":"235146","epoch":1619451041,"text":"Got to 700 just falling, the grapples are a bit underpowered. 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The graphics could have used a tiny bit more of a touch up to make things more clear, but otherwise it was great!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":632671,"author_name":"Chensu","author_uid":"chensu","epoch":1619477711,"text":"Pretty good :), maybe improve a bit on graphics","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":638153,"author_name":"somestufz","author_uid":"somestufz","epoch":1619501240,"text":"Nice mechanics and fun, just needed graphic polish","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":644344,"author_name":"Masaru","author_uid":"masaru","epoch":1619529687,"text":"I don't know why, but the game just doesn't run well at all on my pc. It's basically unplayable, other people seems to have played it, it's basically a slide-show for me, sorry.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":658420,"author_name":"Gaminghamster","author_uid":"gaminghamster","epoch":1619588873,"text":"I like the concept, but unfortunately the framerate is basically non-existent for me which makes it unplayable =(","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld48\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/wunarg.itch.io\/rope-down","text":"Executable here"},{"url":"https:\/\/wunarg.itch.io\/rope-down","text":"Source Code also here"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"76513","g_author":"1243487","g_event":"LD48","g_eventkey":"109","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"371350","g_title":"Rope 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