Clown City

Poko the Clown on a unicycle — a momentum-based auto-runner. Poko is always rolling; you only steer (swipe) and jump (tap). Reverse into monsters to whack them with the unicycle wheel, or stomp them from above, across a lean platforming track.

Play it live at clowncity.russelldangerr.com.

Status

v0.6.0 — three levels (The Big Top, The Catwalk, The Big Drop) with boost belts, curved launch ramps, turnaround puzzles, wall-jump climbs, and a big-top finale. Plays on phones held upright (on-screen controls) or sideways (swipe and tap), and on desktop.

Play

Open index.html in a browser. No build step required.

Controls

Action	Phone, upright	Phone, sideways	Keyboard
Steer / reverse	◀ ▶ buttons	Swipe left / right	← → or A / D
Jump	JUMP button	Tap	Space / ↑ / W
Spray confetti	Press the arrow you're heading	Swipe the way you're heading	Press the arrow you're heading
Pause (restart, levels, sound)	❚❚ button	❚❚ corner button	Esc / P

Turning is the core move. Reversing is a snappy turnaround: Poko brakes, then is back to full speed the other way in about half a second, ready to jump. The braking lunge — the wheel kicking out in the old direction — is an attack, and pressing the way you're already heading sprays confetti that kills whatever it lands on (it costs speed). You can also stomp enemies from above. A pit fall, or touching an enemy from the side, is fatal.

Features

• Bidirectional auto-runner with unicycle momentum, snappy turnarounds and a start-of-level speed ramp
• Phone-first controls: an on-screen deck when held upright, swipe / tap when sideways, full keyboard parity, and a tappable pause menu
• Brake-lunge, confetti-spray and stomp combat
• Height-for-speed physics: drop down a curved ramp to bank "overspeed" that's kept in the air; press on a launch ramp to fire off its lip — no speed caps
• Boost belts that sling Poko up to 1.7× speed in either direction
• Turnaround puzzles where the way forward is behind you, wall-jump shafts, and an elevated catwalk traverse
• Moving + one-way platforms, gaps, and patrol monsters
• Coyote time + input buffering, squash & stretch, particles, screen shake/flash
• Centralized design tokens in js/tokens.js — see DESIGN-SYSTEM.md

Project layout

Vanilla JS, no build step. Singleton-object modules loaded via <script> tags in index.html (order matters; tokens.js first, game.js last). Fixed-timestep loop at 120 Hz. See CLAUDE.md for architecture notes.