Not to mention the final dialog.

Maybe I should play more levels, but I thought it was insanely easy.

I finished this two days ago but I still don't know what to say. It's basically flawless. ('Basically' because at one stage I kept dying after respawning, but restarting the level was no big deal.)

This game is the winner for me. It has gameplay, level design, puzzle, graphics...

But I seem to have a problem firing the grappler up-left. All the other directions work fine.

That's probably a keyboard hardware issue.

Awesome

I did find it a bit hard and frustrating, so maybe the laziness rule should have kicked in sooner. Alternatively maybe just having more levels or more reward between challenges would help; or maybe simply not being penalised as harshly (i.e. only losing a few coins) when you hit something?

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Also, I think I'd have appreciated being told explicitly that:

• The grappler direction is basically one of the eight compass directions depending on which arrow keys are held;

• The grappler auto-aims to some degree so I don't need to worry too much about it. If I worry too much about it, I'll struggle with something else e.g. a jump trajectory, or just burn out too quickly.

I had to figure these things out myself because I realised it was frustrating not knowing them. I don't think most people would realise what was frustrating them; they'd just assume the game was too hard.

I just can't believe these guys managed to get this done in a 72 hour slot! It's worth while finishing the game for sure

Agreed. I had some trouble due to this on a level. Unfortunately, it was the first level I played and I almost assumed it was impossible to beat. Once I realized that keys affected movement while grappling, the game became much easier and enjoyable.

I didn't have problems with the auto aiming, though.

I'm happy most of you seem to like our game. About the auto aim feature, we wanted it to not be so noticable, so players would think that they are good at aiming. It probably needs some tuning before it's perfect.

Also, level design is something that is very hard to do in such a short time. I remember I thought that the first level would be very easy to complete when I made it but it turns out I was wrong. There really isn't enough time to play through games made in competitions like Speedhack and TINS to notice level design flaws.

I used Milkytracker to compose the music. The samples are mostly made with Milkytracker as well using the sample editor to draw samples, generate samples or use a combination of drawing and generating samples. To play the music, we use the excellent Dumb library.

We usually never do. One exception is Ballz which Per - together with a friend - ported to Flash. However, this time I might make an exception as I think we ended up with a really nice game. Volume control would definitely be a good feature.

We used Tiled, so editing levels is a piece of cake.