GAMBIT's "CarneyVale: Showtime" featured on Games for Windows
It was a 2008 Dream-Build-Play challenge winner and an IGF finalist...and now CarneyVale: Showtime is featured on the Games for Windows homepage:
http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/
CarneyVale: Showtime is a vertical ragdoll platform game for Xbox LIVE Community Games. In the game, you play as Slinky, a circus acrobat trying to rise up the ranks by performing acrobatic tricks and death-defying stunts through increasingly complex arenas.You can manipulate a wide variety of props to get Slinky through the arena:
- Catch and fling the ragdoll Slinky around using trapeze-like Grabbers
- Make Slinky grab onto flying Rockets and ride them through a maze of obstacles
- Avoid electrical and flaming hazards which cause Slinky to lose lives
- Dash in mid-air and burst trails of balloons along the way
- Perform special acrobatic tricks to gain more fans
...And much, much more!
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