Everyone tries this ! It's simple but well done and fun. Plus it has a level editor
Plus it doesn't have the shitty timed trial (I'm pretty sure I've been playing more than 8 minutes), you can take your time to fully complete the first 3 levels available.
A quick word on the overall look of the game :
I just checked out the XNA thread's OP and the catalog, and a huge chunk of games are such jokes. Either ugly, or very ugly, or ports of old-ass concepts available for free on the internet (one of them actually is both, look for it -_-).
But that's not the case for CarneyVale. Whoever made this really gave it a lot of polish and put a lot of effort to make it appealing, from the well done graphics (which pretty much means very fluid game and beautiful art since it's nothing too complex of course) to the sound effects and the engaging music, the game really is a pleasure to play.
It has a lot of little details in the presentation, like the typical circus guy naming the "stunts" you do ("trrrrrriple flip !"), each one of your scores (out of 5 possible stars) is served with a quote from some newspaper's review of your show (reflective of the number of stars you got).
Of course it's all presentation, but considering it's an XNA game I thought it was worth mentionning.
I know I probably wouldn't even consider buying if it looked as ugly and lazy as some of the other ones, but the effort makes me want to put down 5 bucks for it.
