Gravity Hook

Here are some screenshots of a map im currently working on.

First of all, the messages before you start:



Then a screen of where you start:

A screen in mid air:

A screen of you colliding with a mine:


Links:
RtC, the awesome project making this map possible.
www.adamatomic.com, the homepage of the original Gravity Hook.

It looks neat, but can you explain what is actually going on?

Okay...

While you hold down your left mouse button you get sucked towards the mine next to your cursor when you pressed the button. As long as you hold down the button you are accelerated towards the mine. Also: As long as you hold down the button you can collide with the mine. Once you release the button you can no longer collide with the mine, but you also lose the acceleration.
You will start to fall down, and once you reach the lower bound, you lose (unless you fall on the ground, in which case you will bounce).
You can also bounce off the walls.

The goal is to get as high as possible. You use the acceleration from hooking to mines to swing yourself higher. Then you hook the next mine and use that one as your catapult.

The red line indicates the mine you will be hooked to when you press the left mouse button, unless you are currently hooked to a mine, in which case it indicates the mine youre currently hooked to.
The white line indicates the mine youre currently hooked to. Its invisible while youre not hooked to a mine.

Looks like a fun mini-game, but from your description, one would not be able to collide with a mine as long as they aren't connected to it?

yes, exactly.

It might sound easy, but it's not, cause once you start to hit the high speeds, you're very prone to releasing the mouse just a millisecond too late, and you go poof.

Very nifty.