Mad Herons, a new indie game studio founded by Jacques Mouledoux, Karen Park, and Nick Park, has announced Send In The Clown, an hour-long comedy RPG where you step into the oversized shoes of Pockets as you attempt to save the twelve-year-old Miranda's birthday party.
A standalone demo is now available on the Steam Page as a part of October's Next Fest and acts as a prologue to the main game, while highlighting its RPG mechanics.
"We made this game to be a fun, silly treat for players, and this preview is just a taste," said Jacques Mouledoux, the game’s lead writer. "The full game has more characters, more minigames, more secrets, and a proper story with heart and lots of extremely stupid jokes.”
Co-director Nick Park added, “We even created a full-on, turn-based RPG battle system that is used literally once, in the game’s final battle against Tad. We couldn’t think of a more fitting ending to Miranda’s birthday party than fighting a child.”
You can play the demo for yourself today, or learn more about the game below.
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Created by a team featuring a former iCarly writer, SpaceX engineer, and university professor, Send In The Clown is an hour-long comedy RPG where you step into the oversized shoes of Pockets, a struggling birthday clown tasked with saving twelve-year-old Miranda’s disastrous birthday party; you need to unlock classic clown abilities and befriend party guests to take back the party from Tad, Miranda’s bratty little brother.
The standalone demo acts as a comedic prologue to the main game that distills the game’s RPG mechanics. Playing as Pockets, the player arrives early to Miranda’s birthday party and finds it is already a mess: the guests are unhappy, the food isn't cooked, and Miranda’s bratty little brother Tad has stolen the grill’s propane tank.
The player must make things right. To get the propane from Tad, the player needs to beat his high score in America Shoots Guns At The World, a satirical bullet-hell shoot 'em up. The player must also befriend at least one of the demo’s three available birthday guests by completing their unique minigames. For instance, befriending single dad Ned requires you to teach him to dance in a Guitar Hero-style rhythm game. Much like the main game, the player will be given a rating based on how many guests they’ve befriended and which secrets they’ve uncovered.
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