Pennywise Crossing by kromeboy

In this game you keep IT alive!
The clown pennywise from the Stephen King's book IT as retired to a lovely island to start a new life away from the horrors.
Help him collecting balloons to buy an house in this take on the classic Animal Crossing.
Arrow keys or A W D to move around.
The planet is actually round and has a sort of day-night circle.
All the sounds came from freesound.org
Thank you for playing!
| Youtube | https://kromeboy.itch.io/pennywise-crossing |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/pennywise-crossing |
Ratings
| Overall | 2380th | 2.797⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 2465th | 2.359⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 2317th | 2.578⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 2238th | 2.984⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1844th | 3.109⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 614th | 3.391⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1709th | 3.094⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 43🗳️ | 40🗨️ |
Keepeng the camera pointing north (up) is desired, or you will quickly get lost on the sphere and also the alternative is to have the camera always pointing at your back.
The only solution that I can think is to negate the pole (I think that in Animal Crossing the borders of the map are water) but part of the experiment in this game is see how the camera works in such unusual conditions
Making the camera point the direction the player is facing in may improve this.
The game felt repetitive so you may want to add a bit of variety. (granted, I've never really gotten into Animal Crossing and don't know much about it, so I'm not sure if that's the point).
Premise of the game was pretty funny and the graphics were charming. :)
Liked the font in the "win screen".
Gameplay does not have a lot of variety, maybe an enemy or two would be good.
Cool graphics, liked the fuzzy/blurry effect. Liked the humour, playing off the contrast of the horror font and the cutesy gampelay/sound effects.
First thought, the 3d model looks simple but stylish.
The opening text is way too small, especially with that hard-to-read font. I noticed it doesn't get bigger when i full-screen so i think it's just a canvas scaling issue, something that you could updated technically as a "bug fix".
The round world looks cool, I was wondering if you actually used a sphere for the ground or was it a camera effect?
Tank controls are a bit awkward.
A couple levels in and I'm not sure there's any opposition in the game.
My favorite thing is how you incorporated Pennywise because of "It" being in the theme, there's a lot of potential for funny stuff there.
If you go north or south at some point the camera will spin around you, because the camera is always pointing up
Yea, in the first screen I have somewhat disabled "best fit" probably while editing the text. I have fixed it. thank you for your feedback!
P.S. I always freaked out when I collected 10 balloons :D
Is almost an involuntary jumpscare.
I hope that helps! Either way, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of the 'IT' pun :smile:
I had thought to add a time limit or something, but the random placement of the balloons would not make it funny. It probably need some enemies to run from to make it a challenging experience
I liked the music and that everything looks so sweet, very funny!