Captain Grapple
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
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The crabby crew of The Jolly Roger Grapple Dodger are after your doubloons! Shoot them down with your cannons and finish them off with your trusty grappling hook in a fast paced arcade style shoot em' up.
For the low price of 0 doubloons you get
- A grappling hook
- Stacks o' bullets
- The Crabby Grabby™
- A definitely original soundtrack from the creator of Javong Js
- Pirate booty
- Did you know that crabs are Turing complete?
- And more!
Controls
- move: arrow keys on keyboard | left stick on controller
- shoot: x on keyboard | A/Y on controller
- focus: z on keyboard | B/X on controller
- f12 to cycle fullscreen/pixel perfect scaling
Misc.
- The game uses a custom Monogame engine written in C# and is on Github. (featuring the 400+ line Crab.cs file)
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings) |
Authors | Agoogaloo, jukmifgguggh, PlayTendo, babchunko |
Genre | Action |
Made with | MonoGame |
Tags | Bullet Hell, Controller, Pirates, Pixel Art, Shoot 'Em Up |
Average session | A few minutes |
Inputs | Keyboard, Gamepad (any) |
Download
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Click download now to get access to the following files:
win-x64-1.1.0.zip 79 MB
linux-x64-1.1.0.zip 75 MB
osx-x64-1.1.0.zip 76 MB
linux-arm64 (Arcade ver)-1.1.0.zip 69 MB
Development log
- 1.1.0 - Lots of General Tweaks and FixesApr 30, 2024
- 1.0.1 - small bug fixes/improvementsJan 13, 2024
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Really enjoyable! So far, I got to the first boss, but I will try again for sure. I'm used to shoot-em-ups having slightly more agile controls, but it's only a matter of getting used to the way the ship handles here. The grappling mechanics are lots of fun!