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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Best Audio | #3 | 2.742 | 3.167 |
Best Mood | #5 | 2.887 | 3.333 |
Best Graphics | #5 | 3.175 | 3.667 |
Most Fun | #6 | 2.742 | 3.167 |
Most Innovative | #6 | 2.454 | 2.833 |
Best Overall | #6 | 2.598 | 3.000 |
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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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.
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