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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | 👥 | Bowlding | jam | 790 | 2.91 | 2.97 | 3.50 | 2.80 | 2.86 | 3.36 | ||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | 👥 | Beat Sturgeon | jam | 518 | 3.80 | 3.32 | 3.75 | 4.23 | 3.83 | 4.21 | 4.01 | 3.70 |
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | 👥 | BATCLASH | jam | 3.30 | 3.30 | 2.91 | 2.50 | 3.83 | 3.83 | 3.50 | 3.33 | |
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | 👥 | AkimBear | jam | 48 | 4.11 | 4.06 | 3.66 | 2.99 | 4.48 | 4.06 | 4.05 | 3.90 |
This is wonderful and an incredibly special experience. Wow. Super charming and lovely sprite work and your colour pallet is lovely from start to finish. Only hiccup for me was the Z to jump and X to dash. Maybe it's just because i'm used to a controller for platformers? regardless, I made due and persevered! Thanks for this lovely little game, it made me really happy! Ps. Starting Anew is stuck in my head!
Super polished! Found it a little hard to control the "Critters", and understanding exactly what I was supposed to do was a little cryptic. But great look to it, and I great modelling!
Oh man! This is fantastic!!! Downwell + Pinball + Castlevania = Bloodcaster! Art is excellent and the vibes are exceptional. Amazing work! (Great name as well!)
I keep coming back to this game! My personal favourite so far!!!
I've never been interested in deck building games but the theme was definitely eye catching so I had to give it a shot! I ended up find it really addictive honestly. The concept and theme is really good and I like the way it plays on the concept of "sacrifice" both in terms of decision making and literal ritual sacrifice. Clever game, very entertaining, definitely interested in checking out some similar games now! The only setback is the greater demon card issue you mentioned, but it's not make or break! Keep it up :smiling_imp:
@pawel-w, Thanks so much! So glad you enjoyed it.
@doctormozart Hahaha, thanks for the positive feed back. If you get the chance to try it with a controller at some point definitely give it another shot, it's a completely different experience (i.e. a much much better one :smile:)
@woofdog99 Whoa, thanks for the kind words! Hmm... Maybe we will... :thinking:
@purrseus Ahh, so so glad you enjoyed it! Comments like this make creating this game worth it.
The last level's enemies were definitely a talking point amongst us, but in the end we decided the increase of challenge as well as tying the enemies into the game's narrative was more in line with our vision. But definitely a valid critic, thanks for the feedback!
@f4kethis Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah... If you're playing with Mouse and Keyboard it's pretty difficult and takes some practice, but it's a much much smoother experience if you have a controller to use! Thanks for playing!
@vodish Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
@captaincorgistan Haha, no need to limit your excitement! So glad you enjoyed it :smile: Tell your friends! :sparkles:
@gamers-blood-entertainment Hooray! Thanks for the positive feedback! Spread the word, and tell your friends!
@leothil Thanks! Glad you had fun with it! tell your friends! :bear:
@antoine-vion Hahaha, thanks for the recommendation! great to hear you had fun!
@kornel-meszaros Awesome! So glad you enjoyed the game! And thanks for the feed back, we couldn't get the triggers to function for some reason so we settled for bumpers instead. Tell your friends! :bear:
@Trifectuh Hey thanks! Had a lot of fun making it, glad you enjoyed it!
@eddie-li Thanks so much for the kind words! Made in 48 hours :wink: Tell your pals! :bear:
@stu Hey thanks! :bear: :sparkles:
@acaral One word, Thanks!!! :bear:
@block97 Thanks for the positive response! yeah, the sacrifice of shooting while stopping movement balance was our tie in to the theme. But personally when I have some extra time left I like to just shoot at the sky for a bit haha. Glad you enjoyed it, tell your friends! :bear:
@boopsgames Thanks friend! Glad you liked it! :bear:
@chaosthelegend Haha, wow! Thanks so much!! We have an Itch page if you want to help us out: https://ecmjohnson.itch.io/akimbear
@game-coder28 Thanks for giving it a shot! Sorry your stream wasn't working yesterday, but I'm glad you came back to it. Tell your friends! :bear:
@jaimuepe Ahh, great to hear you enjoyed it! Yeah, it's much much more manageable with a controller. The birds are still tricky with one, but it's at least do able (If it makes you feel any better, on keyboard I still haven't made it past the first level so you've done really well haha!) Definitely give it a shot with a controller if when you have the chance, and let us know what your theories on the ending are :thinking:. Thanks again for playing! :bear:
@jaimuepe Oh! And if you were at all interested I put the (short) soundtrack for AkimBear on band camp for free! https://closecallstudios.bandcamp.com/album/akimbear-ost
@justinmullin Hey Justin, sorry about the late reply. To be honest, our whole team including myself have been so humbled by your lovely comment that we're a little speechless! It warms our hearts to know that you enjoyed our game so much, and we're so proud that you believe it to be something special. To me having a game be something special is the highest praise and i'm so touched that you believe our game fall anywhere near that. Thank you so much for this comment, it has legitimately made my week (and it's Smash week... sooo...). After all these lovely comments on this page, including yours, taking this game further is definitely something we're considering right now, and hearing we have something special from an outside party other than amongst our selves is definitely another layer of inspiration to do so. Have a good one Justin, and thanks so much again for taking the time to play our game! :bear:
@joh Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for giving it a shot! Tell your friends! :bear:
@trevor-hayes Thanks for the kind words! Aiming sensitivity is definitely something we'll look into, thanks for the feed back! Re: HTML5, a version is now available from this page. Thanks for the suggestion! :bear:
@lazertrax Haha, yeah I still haven't beat the first level with a keyboard! Thanks for the kind works and giving our game a try. tell your friends! :bear:
@kromzem Thanks for giving it a shot, and super glad you enjoyed it! Tell your peeps :bear:
@f1krazy I'm so glad you liked it! Yeah, we wanted to be a little less literal with the theme and bake its concept into the gameplay instead of making it a game about literal sacrifice. So we're glad you got what we were going for! And yeah, haha, the birds are annoying... But we wanted to make sure there was a reason to change the direction of your shooting laterally rather than just shooting down all the time. We'll Possibly be building this game out in the future so... stay tuned! :thinking: Thanks again for playing! :bear:
@alext-design Thanks for playing you two! hope you enjoyed it.
@randomphantom Hmm, intriguing... Were you playing it in browser? Haven't experienced this ourselves so thanks for letting us know. Thanks for playing! :bear:
@keppu Aeee, so glad you enjoyed! Tell your friends!🔫🐻🔫
Any chance of getting a Mac build? Looks incredible and i'd love to try it!
@juan-hust-novella Haha, no worries! Rest is our friend!
W O W. I am blown away by the love that's been put into this. Not to mention how pretty and well animated everything is! Is this all made from scratch? If so, this is by far the most impressive entry this Jam in my opinion. Also thanks so much for making the Mac build! I've been anxiously waiting for one since I first saw this. Very Ooblets, VERY slime rancher, and the colours are even a little No Mans Sky. Excellent pallet and everything has so much charm. Hope you're all very proud!
Whoa, dug the atmosphere and the attention to detail especially how those folks aim at you as you walk by if you chose not to fight them! Short, but made sense with the story you were telling. Now please... Setting this debate i'm having with my friend; was the guy you had to kill at the end the friend who's in the picture hanging in your house? Great work on this!
This is fantastic! Love the music, love the lyrics, love the art style. very impressed!
This is it, this is my favourite game from this jam. I played and loved Colours of Your World last jam and was my favourite from that jam as well! Your games have so much charm and heart put into them, from the soundtracks to the art style. Ahhh... and the chiptune fly me to the moon at the end made me laugh out loud in public, so thanks for that :smile: It reminds me of something Keita Takahashi would put together, but with a Sonic/FF6/Earthbound soundtrack. Perfection. :ok_hand: Can't wait for your next entry, great work! :sparkles: (Ps. played it on iOS and it was super smooth!)
@moskoman Thanks for checking it out! Here's there song :eyes: https://closecallstudios.bandcamp.com/track/fetch-me-my-tools