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Debauchee Pagliacci

This game is a Mini Metroidvania made for the Global Gam Jam 2024!
This was created in under 48 hours.
Theme: Make Me Laugh

A man goes to a doctor— “Doctor, I’m depressed,” the man says; life is harsh, unforgiving, cruel. The doctor lights up. The treatment, after all, is simple. “The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight,” the doctor says, “Go and see him! That should sort you out.”...............


The man goes to the circus but the show has not started. Pagliacci is missing and needs his clown equipment.
Play as this sad man as he travels the circus gathering the great clown Pagliacci's equipment. The joke must go on!


Game Style: Mini-Metroidvania
Goal: Collect all 6 Clown Upgrades and return to center stage! Controls:
Full Screen - L
Exit Game - Escape Key
Controller Support! Movement - WASD, Arrow Keys, D-pad
Interact - F, Left Shift, Xbox Gamepad Y
Start Game - F, E, Enter, Left Shift, Xbox Gamepad Y, Start
Jump - Space, Xbox Gamepad A
Equipment Upgrades
Jump Flutter - (While in mid air) Space, Xbox Gamepad A
Clown Car - E,Z, Xbox Gamepad B
Flower - Q, Xbox Gamepad Left Bumper Throw Pie - Left Mouse Click, R, X, Xbox Gamepad X
Slide Down Slopes - S, Arrow Key Down, D-Pad down

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Debauchee Pagliacci.zip 7.9 MB

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I enjoyed it! I couldn’t find a proper ending, but considered it done after finding all upgrades. 

Obviously, it’s very paired down - would have liked a map, environmental art, better animation, bosses, etc. but it still scratched the Metroidvania itch for me!

Thanks for playing!
The proper ending is once you have all 6 upgrades, you go back to the main golden "trophy" in the first room and interact with it one more time.
I'm glad my game jam game could scratch that metroidvania itch!
This game gave me the encouragement to maybe make a full metroidvania one day.