ROPEWORK

ROPEWORK

Three one-finger arcade games held together by one rope. Swing across a night city, bring a block down, and lift a chain of people out of history's floods and fires.

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Grapple: a figure swings on a line between two masts over a night city

Three games, one rope

Each is played with one finger, in landscape, in a round of a few minutes. Every sound is synthesised as you play, and every pixel is drawn by the game.

Grapple over a row of poles

GRAPPLE

HOLD · RELEASE

Hold to fire, release to fly. Roof to mast to pole across an endless city. The world is dealt so that every gap can be crossed; the rest is your timing. Gather the seven chakras for another life.

Wreck: a crane swings a ball toward a block between two neighbours

WRECK

DRAG · PUMP

Run the crane, pump the ball, and bring the block down floor by floor. The houses next door have to stay standing, and so does the family in the one beside the site.

Rescue: a living ship carries a chain of people over Pompeii toward a temple

RESCUE

DRAG · TAP

A living ship lowers its tendril over a city in peril. People climb on and hold each other's ankles, a human chain that swings with every move you make. Carry them to safety before their roof is gone.

Rescue: the Deluge at Shuruppak, the ark waiting across the rooftops

Eight nights from history

  • The Deluge — Shuruppak, c. 2900 BC
  • Deucalion's Flood — Hellas
  • Vesuvius — Pompeii, 79 AD
  • The Great Fire — Rome, 64 AD
  • The Great Earthquake — Lisbon, 1755
  • The Dam Breaks — Johnstown, 1889
  • The Yellow River — Henan, 1887
  • The Great Flood — Mississippi, 1927

Rain, wind and speed loosen their grip. Families board together; lost relics wait on the rooftops.

What it is not

No adsNot one, ever.
No in-app purchasesYou buy it once and have all of it.
No data collectedNo accounts, analytics or tracking. Your bests stay on your phone.
Works offlineNo network. It is under a megabyte of code.

For iPhone and iPad

Ropework is an app, not a web game. It is coming to the App Store.

Coming to the App Store

The game's own words are in English.