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[squidlarkin]

Super early prototype available here

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"I totally want to see a versus grappling-hook oriented duel game. That'd be @#$%ing awesome." -ChevyRay

It would! And I think I can do that. I'll have to resist the urge to reuse my existing grappling platformer engine... (unless reuse would be ok?)

Not sure if I have the wherewithal to make it playable through the webitubes, but I'll see what I can do. And I reserve the right to change the project to something completely different if it strikes me.

And since I don't hang around here much, here are a couple of versus games I've already made, to whet your appetites:
Cave Sporey
Hot Bees

[Blademasterbobo]

The grapple hooks thing sounds like it could be pretty interesting



also, your links are broken

[TobiasW]

Grapple Hooks?

Aaaaaalright, bring it! Do your worst best!

[Melly]

Reusing old code is totally okay.

Also, please place the correct message icon on your thread's first post.

[squidlarkin]

Sweet! In that case I might have something super-rudimentary but playable up as early as tomorrow.

Also, I'm open to recruiting an artist, if anyone's interested.

[squidlarkin]

Here's something:
http://porknougat.zxq.net/grapplefight0.0.1.zip
Not much yet, but there's your grappling and your shooting. Player 1 is WASD+mouse, player 2 uses a dual-analog gamepad, and most gamepads probably won't even work right. Doesn't matter much, since you can't actually hurt each other yet anyhow.

[squidlarkin]

Has anyone tried the prototype yet? Would love some feedback on the feel of the controls, the scale of the characters, the amount of recoil and so forth.

Also had an idea about the scoring system: what if instead of actually killing the other players, you just get points based on how much damage you do? And maybe you'd get double points for hitting someone with a higher score than you, to keep anyone from getting too far ahead.

[Aik]

Feels pretty good. Will the rope bend around corners or keep with only the end having any sort of collision detection?

[ghosted]

Just had a quick flutter and couldn't help thinking the grapple really doesn't behave like you'd expect. But maybe it'd be nice to embrace that. I purposefully stopped using the movement keys and just tried to get around by flinging myself and quite enjoyed it. If you combined that with a race to reach the top of a tower the flinging, grabbing and momentum of it all could be quite amusing (especially if you could grapple each other).