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A jam submission

Caleb the Christian ClownView game page

When the world needed a hero... What it got was a clown!
Submitted by sketche99 (@elijahleon) — 1 day, 22 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Best Audio#32.7423.167
Best Mood#52.8873.333
Best Graphics#53.1753.667
Most Fun#62.7423.167
Most Innovative#62.4542.833
Best Overall#62.5983.000

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted(+1)

I love the swing with the game. So I at first was confused too on how it fit the theme, but as others stated after reading your background I can see it now. I was clown for 10 years myself and it makes me happy to see a positive clown. So many clowns these days are depicted as monsters and murderers. Your crazed animatronic Bears though were a bit of a shock at first as I started to play before reading the directions. LOL Still cute game. Thank you for sharing. 

Submitted (2 edits) (+1)

I liked the visual cohesiveness of the game and trying to get to all the balloons before the bears get you. :)  It was nice to have the playful music in the background and the satisfying "pop" whenever I reached a balloon.

I wasn't quite sure how the "Strength through Weakness" theme played out in this, though.  If it was there, perhaps there's a way to make it shine out a bit more. (Edit: I missed the "View game page" link at the top, so I see now that the "Strength through Weakness" theme was through the type of player character rather than through game mechanics. :) )  Also, I wonder if having the bears be invincible would help drive the player to focus on the task of popping balloons by having an ever-present danger.  During my first playthrough I just kept running with the bears on my tail, but then I realized on my second playthrough, to see what happens when I die, that you could actually defeat the bears by stomping on them twice; this meant I could clear out the building of bears and then take my time getting to all of the balloons, which wasn't as much fun as running for my life. :D