UPDATE! (December 21, 2021 - Post-Jam)

• Pausing!
• Saving!
• New sprites and more decorations!
• A little thing for after you complete the game!

UPDATE! (January 8, 2022 - Post-Jam)

• The game now initializes with music and sound volume set to 100% by default.

Created for the Ludwig Jam 2021! Also on itch.io!

In this game, you play as a pawn trying to climb a castle with a grappling hook.

Thanks to Ludwig and Ottomated for hosting the jam, thanks to Kubbi for the Creative Commons music, and thanks to Newgrounds for, well, a lot of things!

Notes:

• This is the first time I’ve joined a game jam. It’s kind of exciting, to say the least. It’s also the first time I’ve really been motivated to make and finish a game.
• I heard about this jam from someone on the Discord server for a game called Happenlance. It had a demo recently, it’s out right now, and I loved the gameplay. Please play Happenlance.
• The mechanics of this game are inspired by a flash game called IQ Ball. That game has physics puzzles where your grappling hook pulls things towards you. This one doesn’t. In fact, the only physics involved here is the physics of your own character.
• I wanted to record these notes myself and put them in the game. On one hand, that’s a thing Bennett Foddy did, and it was pretty cool. On the other hand, that’s a lot of time and I only started this game jam like half of the way in. I also wanted to put these notes in as TTS but I, joining halfway in, felt like I didn't have enough time for that either.
• The song playing in the background is by Kubbi, an artist I really like. His music is under CC-BY, so no DMCA problems here! You may also have heard some of his other music from Ph1lza, Just Shapes & Beats, and the game SNKRX.