The Circuit Circus

This game was made for the 2025 GMTK Game Jam! The theme for this year was "Loop."

In the renowned Circuit Circus, experience a plethora of mini-games that are sure to keep your spirits high! Go through each one before looping back to the first- only, is the music going faster?

Keep playing for better and better rewards- but keep in mind, each time you lose a minigame, you lose a ticket; Lose all three, and you'll be forced to quit early!

All of the minigames only require the use of the mouse or spacebar to play, no controller or anything else necessary! There are currently 4 games:

Skeeball - Hold and release the spacebar to fire off a skeeball- too much or two little power and you'll miss!

Shooting Range - A random spread of targets will pop up- click on each one to shoot them down!

Whack-A-Mole- Wait for the little mole to pop out of it's hole, then give em' a good whack!

Eating Contest- Click on the hotdogs to eat them, and try not to get sick after...

The prize you recieve at the end is dependant on how many games you are able to complete. If you think you've got the guts for it, you can get the best prize after completing 40 games in a row!

(And if you're really itching to prove yourself, try to beat our personal high score of 66!)

The theme "Loop" got us thinking about a lot of different ideas- Some pretty intuitive, some not.  In the end, we really liked the concept of looping around the same set of minigames over and over, as they gradually get faster and faster- almost reminiscent of a music box. A circus seemed a very fitting setting, then.

Although there were other ideas we were also passionate about, the structure of this game was a great fit for a game jam setting- since it had a lot of very concrete requirements that were easy to break into lists and get done, as well as a modular component with the minigames. If we happened to have more time at the end, we could always just add another game! It's very scalable. Honestly, we might even end up adding some more in after the jam ends just because it's been such a blast to work on!

Ash Spikings - Art, Animation, Music, SFX

Ela Waddle - Art, Animation, SFX

Garrett Dockins - Programming, Game Design

SFX from Freesound and Pixaby

Thank you for playing our game!