Grappling Hook
December 14th, 2009 by Crusader
Thanks to the many readers who pointed out that Grappling Hook, a first-person puzzle/platforming game, is available for Linux. You can read a brief review of the title at IndieGames.com.
A demo is available; the full version can be purchased for $14.95.
Demo Download: [ speedrungames.com ]
December 14th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
hooks coming out of your eyes!
December 14th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
I can’t use the keyboard in game :(
maybe cause of compiz?
December 15th, 2009 at 12:12 am
oh, I have to say, just for the video, Nexuiz could be better than this game.
December 15th, 2009 at 1:55 am
Perhaps the graphics aren’t as good, but the gameplay is more original.
December 15th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
cant get it to run: options.cfg missing.
December 16th, 2009 at 10:06 am
No, I get the same “options.cfg” warning, but it still runs, so that’s probably not your problem…
To get it running, I had to eventually install the official Sun Java and have it use that… It didn’t work at all with GCJ, and sort of worked with OpenJDK, but crashed at some point while loading… Oh, and I also had to turn off “blooms”; apparently, my video card can’t handle that, whatever the hell it is… *shrug*
I’m half tempted to actually buy the full version, but the Java nonsense has really turned me off to what is otherwise an interesting game… Plus, it runs pretty pathetically, and keeps complaining that the frame rate is too low… Still, it’s an interesting concept… I just really wish they had written it in a saner language than damn Java… ;-/
December 16th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Runs fine here, but yeah the language choice is peculiar.
December 17th, 2009 at 12:50 am
managed to get the mouse controls work, but the keyboard controls don’t