Thank you, thank you to all the fans coming out for our weird, trippy platformer. It means the world to the whole team to get this much love and attention day one!
Speaking of day one, Spinch has not been immune to day one issues. While that's indeed unfortunate, we're working on fixes as you read this. Here are a few problems that are known issues actively being addressed:
Achievements aren’t triggering correctly. Some work, some don’t.
The game gets grainy and pixelated with unusual resolutions.
The game doesn’t track every Spinch baby on world 3-4
The spikes on 5-3 aren’t properly damaging players
Certain high end machines are causing Spinch to suffer lag and framerate issues.
For that last one, we’ve found a workaround! If you’re experiencing lag or framerate issues causing your game to slow down significantly, set the refresh rate of your monitor to 59hz.
If you’ve come across any of the above issues (or anything that we haven’t seen reported yet) please don’t hesitate to get in touch! You can always feel free to email issues to me directly here: buddy [at] akuparagames.com.
Until then, have fun dashing, jumping, and transcending the material realm. That’s what Spinch was made for!
Brave the Psychedelic Storm! Spinch is Available Now!
Run! Jump! Dodge! Dash! Dive! Save your babies today as Spinch launches on Steam!
Not only will you get the strobing rainbow platformer if you pick up the game today, but you’ll get it at 33% off! We’ve partnered with the Gamemaker Sale for the game’s launch to offer a special, limited time discount to everyone that buys in the first few days. If you’ve ever tuned into a stream of Enter Astral Island, liked one of my gifs on Twitter (god, how many gifs I made for Twitter,) this one’s for you!
And given that it’s launch day, you better believe we’ve got a ton of launch day festivities planned! You’ll find very cool streamers ready to lose their minds to the transcendental creatures and locations of Spinch all day on Twitch! Tomorrow, yours truly (me, Buddy) will be streaming the second episode of Buddy Gets Good: Spinch, wherein I hilariously fail at the platformer over and over again until, by sheer brute force, I progress. We’ll be hosting a speedrunning competition and even giving away a Nintendo Switch to our fans on Twitter!
That's all the news that's fit to print! Head on over to our Steam forums to hang out with everyone else braving Astral Island's many threats and let me know what you think of our game!
-Buddy
SPINCH comes to Indie Arena Booth!
Hey, spinches!
We're officially one week out from launch on September 3rd! But you won't have to wait that long to get a little taste of the sugary Spinch action! Starting today, we're once again setting the Spinch demo live for the weekend because Spinch is featured in Gamescom's Indie Arena Booth. The demo includes three different levels featuring wild and innovative mechanics that you'll see more of next week when Spinch launches!
If you are still champing at the bit for Spinch, we're also going to feature content creators and streamers for Spinch on our game page all weekend! No matter what time you tune in, you can guarantee that there will be an awesome personality giving the 2D precision platformer their all! If you want to tune in to some of our livestreams, here's the schedule!
Friday, August 28th: Fefer at 11AM Eastern, 2PM Pacific, 9PM GMT! CarneyVorous at 1PM Eastern, 4PM Pacific, 11PM GMT!
Saturday, August 29th: ChaoticFear19 at 9AM Eastern, 6AM Pacific, 1PM GMT! XaleFiction at 4PM Eastern, 1PM Pacific, 8PM GMT! Enter Astral Island at 8PM Eastern, 5PM Pacific, Midnight GMT!
Tune in, say hello, and hope that the spinch babies get saved!
Spinch featured as part of the Yogscast Tiny Teams Event!
Spinch is just around the corner!
Though the game launches in just a couple of weeks on September 3rd, we wanted to give a little 2D precision platforming power back to the fans! Until August 15th, we’ll be featured alongside a number of other teams in the Yogscast Tiny Teams event, so look forward to round the clock streams on our Steam page as well as a free demo of the game up for the whole week!
The demo features three completely different levels each showing off mechanics, visuals and music from the game's six individual worlds, so if you're looking to get that sneak peak before the game launches next month, now's your time! As always, if you questions or concerns about the demo, you can get in touch with us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Discord!
While you're at it, the demo to our other upcoming title Gone Viral will also be up for the duration of the Yogscast Tiny Team event, so head on over to that Steam page if the roguelite brawler sounds like it's up your alley!
Spinch comes to Steam on September 3rd!
You might have heard this news during the Day of the Devs event, but the rumors are true! The psychedelic 2D precision platformer will be landing for digital download on September 3rd, 2020 for just $14.99! Featuring the mind-blowing art of indie comic legend, Jesse Jacobs; the chiptune music of Ontario rapper, James Kirkpatrick; and the innovative gameplay from upstart Canadian studio, Queen Bee Games, Spinch will challenge, amaze and mesmerize players of all kinds!
Enter into a world thick with bubbling psychedelia. Descend deep into a new ecology teeming with multiple pathways, luminous levels, and complex obstacles. Transcend the material realm and assume your true form as Spinch, a hyper-agile organism consumed by the quest to rescue its litter of missing offspring from an endless invasion of misshapen and malformed offbeats and oddities. Dash, dodge, jump, and even launch your own children as projectiles to take down six eccentric bosses in six vibrant worlds. With only a ticking clock and quick restarts - no lives or game overs - the game is welcoming to players of all experiences, but a formidable challenge to even the most capable of speedrunners.
Features: Retro-styled visual wonderland with a dazzling color explosion by award-winning Canadian cartoonist, Jesse Jacobs A fine-tuned platformer with tight controls to dash, dodge, and jump off surfaces to survive against neon spiders, massive rainbow worms, and bomb-dropping moondogs Plunge into the unique worlds ranging from neon plains, to experiment tanks, to frozen icelands, all the way to outer space! Face off against enigmatic bosses and shoot them down with your children as ammunition Inviting and replayable for everyone; a speedrunning challenge for the insane Soundtrack by famed Canadian artist, James Kirkpatrick, featuring compositions written on modified Gameboys and circuit-bent, hand-made instruments.
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We’ll be featuring the game plenty over the next few weeks, so if you want to stay up to date, make sure you follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook!
Your children need you! Can you rescue them in time?
Kenhie Livestream
Our good friend Kenhie is a variety streamer and speedrunner, and will be playing Spinch live for an hour. Let’s see how far he can get!
Kenhie is a full time streamer on Twitch. He is currently doing a long blind marathon of From Software games like the Dark Souls trilogy/Sekiro/Bloodborne. Once he’s done with the blind marathon he wants to challenge himself even further and learn to speedrun some of these titles, so be sure to check him out!
Enter into a world thick with bubbling psychedelia, as you disrupt your psychic architecture and be absorbed into the environment teeming with multiple pathways, luminous levels, and complex obstacles. Transcend the material realm and assume your true form as Spinch, a hyper-agile organism consumed by the quest to rescue a litter of its missing offspring from an endless kaleidoscopic invasion of misshapen and malformed offbeats and oddities.
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Feature List
Retro-styled visual wonderland with a psychedelic color explosion by award-winning Canadian cartoonist, Jesse Jacobs
A fine-tuned platformer with tight controls to dash, dodge, and jump off surfaces to survive against neon spiders, massive rainbow worms, and bomb-dropping moondogs
Plunge into the psychedelia of unique worlds ranging from neon plains, to experiment tanks, to frozen icelands, all the way to outer space!
Face off against enigmatic bosses and shoot them down with your children as ammunition
Inviting and replayable for everyone; a speedrunning challenge for the insane
Featuring samples from the Spinch soundtrack by famed Canadian artist, James Kirkpatrick, featuring compositions written on modified Gameboys and circuit-bent, hand-made instruments.
On Wednesday, we showed you a live recorded illustration session featuring Jesse Jacobs, the creator of Spinch, along with beats from sound composer, James Kirkpatrick. This time, we’ll be doing it live on Instagram live! Join us for an hour, feel free to ask both Jesse and James questions, and come and hang out with us!
Enter into a world thick with bubbling psychedelia, as you disrupt your psychic architecture and be absorbed into the environment teeming with multiple pathways, luminous levels, and complex obstacles. Transcend the material realm and assume your true form as Spinch, a hyper-agile organism consumed by the quest to rescue a litter of its missing offspring from an endless kaleidoscopic invasion of misshapen and malformed offbeats and oddities.
[previewyoutube="5ZxogpJACbc;full"]
Feature List
Retro-styled visual wonderland with a psychedelic color explosion by award-winning Canadian cartoonist, Jesse Jacobs
A fine-tuned platformer with tight controls to dash, dodge, and jump off surfaces to survive against neon spiders, massive rainbow worms, and bomb-dropping moondogs
Plunge into the psychedelia of unique worlds ranging from neon plains, to experiment tanks, to frozen icelands, all the way to outer space!
Face off against enigmatic bosses and shoot them down with your children as ammunition
Inviting and replayable for everyone; a speedrunning challenge for the insane
Featuring samples from the Spinch soundtrack by famed Canadian artist, James Kirkpatrick, featuring compositions written on modified Gameboys and circuit-bent, hand-made instruments.
Akupara Games is partnering with Queen Bee Games and Jesse Jacobs to publish Spinch!
The psychedelic platformer is an easy fit into the library of well-crafted and beautiful indie games that Akupara has worked on in the past. A collective of indie game veterans, Akupara will be handling social media, marketing and platform integration for the team at Queen Bee so they can keep their focus on making the precision jumps and strobing rainbows that makes Spinch so unique and satisfying to play.
We’ll have plenty of announcements for Spinch coming soon, so keep an eye on this space!
