OVERVIEW

Play as Arya: junker, ship jockey, and fighter. Lacking working thrusters, her ship is equipped with her latest contraption, the Rope Tool — a grappling hook and a stapler duct taped together.

Swing through the corpse of an asteroid mining gold rush. Gather rockets from the rubble of all-consuming corporate rivalry to propel yourself to blinding speeds. Launch those rockets to take down abandoned drones or set off the industrial explosives left lying around. Everything in this physics-led zero-gravity world is an opportunity for chaos and speed.

The forces you're up against are stronger than you, more advanced than you, richer than you. They will knock you down, knock everything you've scraped together right off of your ship. But they can't keep you down. You always come back.

Rope Tool is currently in development. Play our free demo here, join our Discord, and follow us on Twitter for updates.

                                                                                         

CONTROLS

HEADS UP! The controls differ significantly from traditional space shooters and can take some time to get the hang of.

Left Click - Shoot the grapple hook. If there is a wall you can latch onto within range, it will shoot out and attach. If your ship happens to bump into a nearby thruster, it will attach.

W - Activate any thrusters that are facing the same direction as the Directional Arrow

A/D - Select a rocket (On older builds: Rotate the Directional Arrow)

Spacebar - Launch a thruster as a projectile. This functions both as an attack and a method of letting go of thrusters when you've accumulated too many.

THE SPACIES

Current

Jaden Pickering - Programmer, Designer

Jorge Velasquez - Narrative Designer

Kaelyn ‘Gil’ Beeman - Production, 2D Artist

Miles Michell - Level Designer

Pranav Rajnish - Physics and Systems Programmer

Ryan Cooper - Game Producer, AI Developer

Sam Burgoyne - AI Developer

Xander Goodwin - Game Director, 2D Artist, Gameplay Programmer

Yiran Zhang - Level Designer

External

Anna Iris Hill - Composer

Roze Washington - Video Producer

Thomas Leonard - Sound Designer

Former

Cath Szulczewski - Narrative/Level Designer

Tom Choi / Zhenyu Cui - UI Designer

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Trailer Level created by Jorge Velasquez

Trailer Level is comprised of open source assets from Kenney, thatguynm, Redshirke, Jerom, Master484, and Deep-Fold

The iconic space background that we use everywhere was created procedurally using this tool by Deep-Fold

Button icons by kenney.nl/assets/input-prompts-pixel-16

LINKS

Twitter: @RopeTool

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