Forums » Help » Grappling Hook, how to?

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to create for my new platformer game a Grappling hook, like the one you can see in http://grapplehero.com/ or in http://www.wirehang.com/. The problem is that I can't find any information about how to do that, neither about how to tackle the problem.

I found a more specific example of this kind of game, made in pure Javascript, in http://js1k.com/2010-first/demo/755 and it's code: http://js1k.com/2010-first/details/755

But as I said, is made in pure Javascript over the canvas, and honestly, from the code of the example I'm not able to extract any idea about how to do this in Impactjs.

Please, do you have any idea about how to solve this problem?

Thank you in advance!

PD: There is a thread in this forum that talks about the following game: Grapple-Man

http://impactjs.com/forums/games/grapple-man-secrets-of-the-ancestors-scrolls

But there is no any clue about how to program the grapple. And the link to the web-version of the game is down :(

Any luck with this?

There have been a few posts about rope with physics. That would be a great starting place.

http://impactjs.com/forums/impact-engine/chain-rope-with-box2d

There's even a demo and a how to in that chain.