HOOK UP! - Grapple Climber

Fire a grappling hook. If it catches, you climb. If it misses, you leap. If it hits something falling, you don't. HOOK UP! is a one-button climbing game. You aim, you throw, and the same throw resolves three different ways depending on what it finds. There is no jump button, no attack button, and no second chance halfway up. There is a hook, a rope, and a very long way down. ONE THROW, THREE OUTCOMES Hold to aim, release to throw. The hook flies out, and the building decides what happens next. Catch an eave, a rail, a sign bracket, a ledge — the rope goes taut and you reel yourself up. Catch nothing — the throw still carries you, and you leap to wherever momentum takes you. Catch a falling flower pot — you catch it with your face, and you start again lower than you were. Learning the game is learning to read a wall: which ledge is live, which one is decoration, and whether the gap above…