Last Clown Standing by garygreen

made by garygreen for LD32 (COMPO)

Last Standing Clown - where your only weapon is a toxic balloon animal. Destroy all the other grinning clowns on the screen by positioning your balloon animal with the mouse and left click. Release the balloon with right click. The balloon will always move towards your clown once you release it. Avoid the clowns, horns and guns, or you will end up as limp as a deflated balloon that has been badly let down.

On the title screen either click left mouse to start, or right mouse for instructions. Click left mouse at game over screen to continue.

Created in Processing, with Pixelesque and Paint.net for graphics, Caustic for music and sfxr for sound effects.

Windows (self extracting jar)	https://www.dropbox.com/s/tbzsgg3bfkyudf4/LastClownStanding.jar?dl=0
Source	https://www.dropbox.com/sh/48nfsef0102n8dr/AABN42l1weQZryMMSHaAppj-a?dl=0
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=13914

Ratings

Coolness	66%	3
Overall	2.94	763

Audio	2.84	474
Fun	2.97	612
Graphics	2.91	644
Humor	3.10	364
Innovation	2.97	638
Mood	2.93	554
Theme	3.47	446

Feedback

Dining Philosopher

21. Apr 2015 · 16:04 UTC

Which file should I open to play? I extracted the jar but can't find the game file...

Muffin

21. Apr 2015 · 18:48 UTC

Works for me. You don't have to extract anything, just double click the jarfile. If it doesn't work, make sure you have java installed. I got high score 54, couldnt get past lvl 4 or 5 i think. I'm not sure what I did wrong though, i kept instantly dying after spawning in that level.

daltostronic

21. Apr 2015 · 19:08 UTC

Holly shit it is so psychodelic! :D

talecrafter

21. Apr 2015 · 19:10 UTC

Lol. Funny game.

slowfrog

21. Apr 2015 · 19:12 UTC

Wow! Very clownish indeed. Nice graphics and creepy atmostphere. Short and fun.

kipelovets

21. Apr 2015 · 19:26 UTC

That's totally crazy, flying clown heads and guns all over the screen! Pretty fun to play, also

Docjekyll

21. Apr 2015 · 19:38 UTC

It took me a few tries to figure out what was going on, but I think I get it now. You're trying to click all the targets while making sure your character doesn't follow your cursor to his own death.

Interesting game mechanic.

PaperBlurt

23. Apr 2015 · 10:02 UTC

Wow It's like Big Top of Fun that I played on my Amiga as child.
Nice work...

SmallPhil

23. Apr 2015 · 20:28 UTC

Took me a while to get what was going on, but I figured it out I think :P Nice game !

RobotHoboDanceParty

23. Apr 2015 · 22:05 UTC

The game is quite glitchy but pretty fun! Great work!

KaiseanGames

23. Apr 2015 · 22:05 UTC

Interesting concept, but it is not clear at first what exactly you have to do.

badlydrawnrod

24. Apr 2015 · 19:44 UTC

I always wondered why I was scared of clowns.

Catwheel

27. Apr 2015 · 21:16 UTC

Really neat idea. The controls system felt kind of challenging like I could place a balloon to kill a clown but I had to be careful not to be too slow or I may hit an object. I felt that some of the sound effects were overlapping, which was kind of grating. I think if the main menu played the background song so that the player was already familiar with it when they started a level it would be a lot easier to listen.

🎤 garygreen

27. Apr 2015 · 21:34 UTC

Thanks everyone for the positive feedback so far. :-) It's encouraging me to develop the idea further. Thanks for the feedback about the sound effects & music Catwheel - I'll work on sorting that out.

Tom Rijnbeek

02. May 2015 · 20:17 UTC

Fun little game. It took me a while to understand the game mechanic, it could really use some in-game construction.

I think the mechanics could be refined a bit, but the basic concept is interesting and fun.

The graphics are not very refined, and there is also a bug that when you die you can still hit all the enemies and pass the level. The dying animation is also reset when you hit another hazard, even after you're already that.