You'd know better than me, I think it could go either way. Sometimes it's nice to be thrown into a pit and have to learn your tools, I just don't quite have the patience to get all the way to the end when I have a lot of other game jam entries to play. Out of the games I've played so far this one was my favorite.
Grapple Dog is just a game I like, lol. No other similarities other than I thought it was funny to mention there was such a game that exists, and I wondered if you had heard of it before and that was part of the creation process of this game in any way.