Carl's Crazy Carnival

date : 18-unreleased
licensing : licensed
state : cancelled
by : Origin Systems(developer), Origin Systems (publisher)
Developer Origin Systems featured a system where their developers could pitch game ideas to potentially have the company work on when they were looking to start new projects. Carl's Crazy Carnival was outlined in a 2014 feature by Eurogamer documenting some of the standout abandoned ideas. Pitched by artist Bill Narum, Carl's Crazy Carnival would have followed Carl, who hoped to save his carnival after being hijacked by evil clowns. It would have involved fighting large volumes of silly characters being armed with just a customizable water gun. The design documents did not specify a genre, and Narum had died in 2009, so it was unable to be determined. Warren Spector helped pitch it to management, but it was still rejected.[56]