Did you code this from scratch or did you rely on a library like SDL? Either way, that’s awesome!

However, there’s something about the movement that feels off.

Starting from the jump, I found it weird how the character would start to fall very quickly when performing short jumps, but would slow down so much when reaching the apex of the full jump. The dash would execute with a slight delay that put me off at first, but I got used to it so I didn’t really mind that much. The grapple, however, was extremely unintuitive and it took me quite a while to learn how to use it. After acquiring the longer dash for it, it felt quite nice to use, so I think it should’ve actually been like that from the get-go. I also really liked how you managed to integrate it with the combat system!

Unfortunately, at some point the grapple completely bugged out. It would only play its sound when I used it, but the rope stopped appearing, so I just got stuck and could not progress any further. I may come back to your game to see if I can manage to reach the end.

Anyway, with a lot more polish this could be very fun! The style is unique and I liked the minimalistic approach to introduce the new abilities. I’m really looking forward to see this improved!

Love the style of this game!  Your tutorial messages are really great.  Awesome feedback, awesome art.  My game actually uses a very similar style grapple and I really loved seeing another submission use a pull and swing, especially getting it so early!

That said, I did have a lot of trouble controlling it.  It took me an embarrassingly long time to get out of this screen and longer for the next few.  These tutorials might need to be made a little more forgiving, but I know the struggle of balancing making sure the player has learned to use it and not making it too easy that there are other ways out.  

Awesome submission!

The gameplay is interesting, i like how the upgrades are basically the same ability but with additional functions, makes it feel very natural, and the mechanics are cool too. Also the visual are nice.

The enemies are nice but the slime enemy is hard to hit because it will stack on the player and the dash attack will not hit it, and sometime it just cannot be hit and basically become invincible. Boss fight are a bit short too. Also it would be nice to have a map.

But still, cool game!

If you can explain how to unzip and load .rar ill play it had this problem with 3 other games

Really nice concept and execution with the swinging and dashing! I liked how the game focused and iterated on it, especially with the ballon power up, the swinging and dashing complemented each other greatly, I only felt that sometimes the swing control was slightly "stiff", not sure how to explain it, but maybe it came from having to grapple in tight spaces, altought eventually I got used to it.
And the combat was nice, especially with the "grapple and dash" Bee enemy, now, surprisingly the little blobs where the toughest enemy to fight haha, they sometimes damaged me while I was dashing (perhaps because I was too close? not sure), so perhaps they are harder than they should, not sure. I also found perhaps one small bug, one of the blob enemies became invincible in the room with the grappling hook extension, he never took damage, not sure why.
Also the final boss was visually cool, but he could be even cooler if perhaps he had like a second flying form or similar where you have to use the ballon and grapple mechanics more.
For the rest, if polished more with some ambiance music and more background variations and a Map, the game could be a truly complete and awesome experience. 

But overall, even without music and visual variety, the game is pretty fun and unique to move and dash around with enemies, so congrats!

out of all of the jam games i've played this one feels like it has the most potential. it needs a lot of polish and a lot of just time in the oven, but you've got the start of something really cool here and more than any other game i really hope you continue it on. right now the swing mechanics feel incredibly obtuse and i could not get a consistent feel of when a swing would send me horizontal or diagonal and the difference seems to be single frames of the swing. my recommendations are to make the swing a hold and release function and to make the swing not have to be aimed, it just shoots out in front of the player upward at a 35-45 degree angle, similar to a game like environmental station alpha. i understand wanting to give the player more control over it, and it obviously comes down to whether you want this to be an intense combat action game or focus more on platforming challenges, but right now i can say with certainty that the hook does not feel good to use and is incredibly finicky. like i said though, this has a lot of potential and i really hope you continue it on. very good luck to you on this!

Very cool idea with the swing-mechanics. I like it when the physics are incorporated into the gameplay. Nice character design and good programming with the enemies too! Allowing them to follow and chase you up the stairs was a nice touch!

Interesting mechanics, but it very much feels like an early prototype.

The movement and jumping feels nice and responsive, and the dash acting as both an attack and movement ability is a good idea.

Some guidance on how to use the grappling would be nice, since it's not obvious that you can use it to dash up walls.

Honestly not bad and has some good ideas. It starts a little frustrating due to some small nuances but I found it gradually growing on me.

The grapple and swinging system took some getting used to at first but became fairly fun once I got used to it. I'd finding a way to better teach how it works as I spent ages on the first swing before I learnt how to preserve momentum when letting go.

overall a good prototype with some good ideas that could really shape up into something unique, if given proper polish and fine tuning.

On a side note, the attack/dash happening when you release the button and not when pressing it caused me many issues with missed timing or doing the normal dash when I didn't want to.

Had a fun time playing this! I really like the spiderman vibes. Cool mechanics and cool art. Nice job!

Here's my feedback and rating video of you entry. I hope it helps!

Nice art style and I like the slingshot mechanic. 

I just wish you had gamepad support. I've had a real hard time to time both right click and left click right while jumping. But that might just be me. I am not good with Keyboard and Mouse. :)

What would really add a lot to this game would be some eerie background music.

Also, I am always very impressed by people not using engines, but doing it the old school way, like you did with C++. Congratulations to you!