Grapple

Grapple gives your Action Game Maker player an aimed whip. Throw it at a point to swing from it, at a ledge to pull yourself across, or at an enemy to hit it, get pulled in and strike. With nothing in reach, the whip cracks straight out as an attack.

You set it up in your player's visual script with two new blocks, so the animations, sounds and transitions stay yours to choose.

Features

• Aim with the left stick or the direction keys. With the stick at rest, the whip goes straight ahead.
• Swing points: you're reeled in to a fixed rope length and swing on your own. Left and right add or remove momentum.
• Jump off the rope at the top of a swing to leap the way you're holding.
• Chain across gaps by grabbing the next point in mid-swing.
• Pull points: the whip pulls you to the point.
• Enemies: put a pull point on an enemy. The whip hits it and pulls you in, and you can strike when you arrive. You can't be hurt during the pull, and you bounce back off afterwards.
• The whip hurts what it touches, using your player's own attack box and attack power.
• Per-point aim: each point has its own snap angle, so you decide how precise the aim must be. The point you're aiming at is highlighted.
• Swing points show a yellow ring and pull points a blue one. Turn the rings off if you draw your own hook art.
• Made for controllers first. The keyboard works too.

What's included

• Grappler: the node for your player.
• GrapplePoint: the node for anything you want to grab. Put it in an object or straight into a level.
• Grapple Action: a visual-script action with three modes: Throw, Swing and Pull.
• Grapple Condition: a visual-script condition that checks Point In Range, Whip Out, Hooked Swing Point, Hooked Pull Point, Arrived, Strike Ready or Whip Done.
• An install guide and a 3-minute install video.

Requirements

• Action Game Maker 2.0. Made and tested with version 2.0.4 (Godot 4.7).
• A player object with AGM's usual HitArea2D and AttackArea2D.
• You add six states and their links to your player's visual script. The install guide lists every one.