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This was really fun once I got the hang of it. The vines and the bending branches work great.

I know the controls got a couple people confused, I was playing on Desktop and confused me at first (I had ignored the information in the title screen). Clicking on the monkey wasn't that intuitive, might have worked better with right click... though if this was intended for mobile I'd suggest making making the monkey release when releasing the drag (and adjust the physics so that it's more about gaining momentum and using the branch springiness rather than quickly dragging and tapping the monkey).

That is to say, with a little bit of adjusting, I feel like this could be the basis for a good game. Feels like a successful prototype to me. And it's already pretty polished!

Sad that the monkeys couldn't hang off other monkeys!

I personally think it might have been even funnier if it were Tarzan-like people swinging through the jungle and trying to get bananas. i.e. people behaving like monkeys is funnier than monkeys behaving like monkeys.

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Thanks for the awesome review Evan! I was thinking of a mobile game from the start but I know for the game jam it needed to be desktop so I want it to be as simple as possible. Thats a good suggestion on the dragging. I know a few people struggled and I think I got too close to the controls while making it and I was hoping it was a small learning curve to get over but it might have been a bit bigger than I thought.

Monkeys can hang on monkeys! I wanted to make a level where that was required to pass a level. What ends up happening is that if a monkey thinks it can stand on the ground then it would rather do that. Its a bit more obvious on the last level where there is a bit of room.

The plan was to have a few types of monkeys with different pros and cons and the goal is to get them all across to the end by working together. My GF likes to draw monkeys so that's why this whole game came to be :)