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Daily Run contest is halfway

1:09am

Hi Caromble! friends,

What an exciting week! Launching into 1.0 was a rollercoaster for us and we're happy to see people are playing the Daily Run. The first three winners haven been determined and there are four more days to participate and win bragging rights and Steam keys:

April 22: VanAlphen (each player can only win once, but respect!)

April 23: Sarah

April 24: Honeybadger

April 25: ?

April 26: ?

April 27: ?

April 28: ?

We keep track of the winners in this post:

https://testx-steam.c5game.com/app/347660/discussions/0/802345631536520824/

Thanks for your support by playing Caromble!. To support us even more you can really help us by writing a Steam review. It can make just the difference. Much appreciated! ːsteamhappyː

Good luck with the Daily Run!

-Crimson Owl Studios

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Caromble! 1.0 Is Out Now — After 10 Years, We Finally Did It

22 Apr

Dear Caromble! friends,

After ten years in Early Access… we finally made it. Caromble! is officially out now in 1.0.

To celebrate launch, Caromble! is available with a 20% launch discount for a limited time.

We want to mark this moment with our launch trailer. The song represents exactly how we feel today. This is Caromble!:

To make Caromble! 1.0 extra special, we’re also launching a brand-new mode: Daily Run. A fresh challenge every day. For launch week, we’re turning it into a competition:

🏆 Daily Run Launch Contest (1 week)

Each day features a new Daily Run with a fresh leaderboard
Top player of the day wins 5 Steam keys
7 days, 7 winners, starting now
Players can only win once and will be contacted after the contest ends

Our Caromble! adventure that started as a small experiment grew, evolved, broke, improved, but we stayed motivated thanks to you. Every bit of feedback, every bug report, every comment helped shape Caromble! into what it is today.

This release isn’t the end, it’s a milestone. The game is stronger, sharper, and more complete than ever, and we’re incredibly proud to finally call it 1.0.

Thank you for sticking with us on this journey.
Now… go play Caromble!

With infinite thanks,Crimson Owl Studios

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🎉 Caromble! Launch Week Contest (April 22–28)

18 Apr

♫ This is Caromble! ♫

To celebrate the launch of Caromble!, we’re kicking off a week-long challenge with our brand-new Daily Run mode:

A fresh run every day.
The same challenge for everyone.
A daily leaderboard to climb.

Show off your skills and there is more to win than bragging rights this time!

🏆 Daily Run Contest (April 22–28)

Each day during launch week:

Play the Daily Run
Climb to the top of the leaderboard
Finish #1 and win 5 Steam keys

That’s one winner every day. Players can only win once in the contest.

Whether you’re a longtime Carombler or jumping in for the first time, this is your chance to prove yourself.

We can’t wait to see who comes out on top.

Good luck… and see you on the leaderboard!

— Crimson Owl Studios

Caromble!

Caromble! leaves Early Access and launches on April 22

6 Mar

It’s finally happening!

After an awesome showcase with Clemmy Games, we’re ready to share it with you directly. Our Early Access journey is coming to a close, and thanks to all your feedback along the way:

Caromble! officially launches on April 22, 2026!

This full release brings the complete Caromble! experience... and we have a bonus. To celebrate the release we're bringing a new game mode with 1.0:

New Game Mode at Launch: Daily Run

A fresh challenge every single day:

A randomly generated level mixing different skill levels
The same level for everyone
A clean leaderboard every day
Come back tomorrow for a brand-new run

We hope Daily Run will entertain both longtime players and newcomers. It’s our way of making sure there’s always a reason to bounce back in.

We’re incredibly excited to finally share the release date with you after all these years. If you’re excited too, the best way to support us right now is to wishlist Caromble!.

It genuinely helps more than you might think. Let’s make this launch count!

See you on April 22!

— Crimson Owl Studios

Caromble!

New trailer -and release date- announcement

27 Feb

Dear Caromble! friends,

We're happy to announce an upcoming announcement! Next week we will participate in two indie showcases where we will reveal a new trailer and A RELEASE DATE!

Yes... the time has finally come.

Firstly, we are collaborating with Clemmy from Best Indie Games for the Spring Showcase 2026:

Check the live stream at: https://www.youtube.com/c/ClemmyGames.

Furthermore, our new trailer will be showcased at the Indie Game Showcase 2026 hosted by Game Tikker:

This week-long online event will run from March 2-8, 2026!

We're super excited to share the trailer and the release date.

This is Caromble!

Have a great weekend!

Crimson Owl Studios

Caromble!

Localization added for 10 languages and the road to 1.0

12 Jul, 2025

Dear Caromble! friends,

In our last update we mentioned our efforts in finding a publisher or PR-partner that can help us launch the 1.0 version of Caromble!. We'd like to give on update on this, but first...

We added localization to Caromble! and have ingame language support for 10 extra languages! If you like your brick breaking in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese or Japanese you are now able to choose this in the options menu. En voor onze Nederlandse Caromble! vrienden hebben we ook onze eigen taal ondersteund, gewoon omdat het kan :)

We have done the translations with the help of Google Translate and AI, so please forgive us for any errors. If you would like your native language to be supported as well, please let us know. With enough requests, we will support more languages.

Also we did some engine optimizations with improved memory allocation, to support lower-end devices and improve loading times.

With our efforts in finding a publisher or PR-partner we have come to the conclusion that it is probably best for us to bootstrap it and do it ourselves. Unfortunately we lack the funds to work together with the professionals we clicked with and we've learned that partnering up is preferrably done before your Early Access launch. As we put quite some effort in this, we were disappointed with this result in the beginning, but thankfully we we were able to transform our disappointment into excitement and motivation to make the most of Caromble!'s 1.0 release.

In the coming weeks we will be working on finalizing the store page for full release, including a localized store page in the supported languages. We will finalize our marketing plan and have an awesome release trailer ready to show the world. If you have any (marketing) ideas that could help us or if you know streamers or journalists that are interested in playing Caromble!, please let us know!

We are looking forward to let people all over the world know that:

Caromble!

Accessibility update and our pitch deck adventure

13 Aug, 2024

Dear Caromble! friends,

We just released a small update. We got feedback about the difficulty of Caromble! and some players weren't aware that the difficulty (the number of mercy balls) can be changed in the options menu. Because we want all type of players to be able to enjoy Caromble! we added the 'Difficulty button' to the game over screen as well. Hopefully it will help some players to stay motivated to reach the end.

The last couple of months have been a different kind of adventure for us. Instead of programming and designing we have worked on creating a pitch deck with which we hope to find a publisher or PR-partner that can help us launch the 1.0 version of Caromble!. We shared it for the first time at INDIGO: a Dutch indie game conference we attended in June. With the feedback received there we have completed the pitch deck and we are currently pitching... a lot.

We will keep you updated on what's happening on the pitching front. It is completely new for us and we have learned a lot already. We wanted to share a few of our slides, to show what we've been up to:

Caromble!

Caromble! Friday #? (it's been 15 years ok): The Story released

5 Nov, 2023

Dear Caromble! friends,

Today is the day. After 15 years of development, Caromble! is completed with all intended features, levels and now finally with all story elements. To experience the story of Caromble! in this update, please replay the Prologue and Epilogue level.

Though Caromble! is not a narrative experience and was never intended as one, we are very happy to have these narrative elements in play. For us personally it makes Caromble! complete. We feel that we crafted an experience that now is as complete as we could make it. We hope that the added story brings some joy and somehow deepens your experience with all those multi-balls, explosions, collapses, cam-shakes and those perfectly-angled paddle-ball hits in Caromble!.

Here is a video of the beginning of the newly added story elements:

We also added our Credits to the game. These can also be accessed from the main menu. This was the final thing we added last week and in a way it marks the end of an incredible journey. We want to thank everybody involved and especially the players who dared to invest their time and money while we are in Early Access. You really helped us finish the game. Special thanks to players: foofaraw and Chiquita(ARF!) and VanAlphen whose input was considerable and invaluable both content-related as motivational for us as a team.

So what are our next steps? We will do a final internal beta-test and we will prepare a marketing plan for leaving Early Access. When we leave Early Access we will wipe the leaderboards for one last time. So please make screenshots to keep those eternal bragging rights.

From Holland with Love,

Crimson Owl Studios

Caromble!

Caromble December Update

11 Dec, 2022

This update contains many small bug fixes, graphics improvements and a few new achievements!

Caromble!

Caromble Steam Deck support!

14 Oct, 2022

Dear Caromblers!

Ever since we saw the first announcement of the Steam Deck, we knew we wanted to make sure Caromble! could run on it. Today we're excited to tell you that not only does Caromble! run on the Deck natively (at the best graphics settings), we might have to admit that we enjoy the game best on the Deck.

The work on supporting the Deck began this summer. Since we didn't have our own Steam Deck yet, we used a Steam Controller and a laptop with similar specks for our first beta versions. After we got our own Steam Deck in August, we spend many, many hours optimizing the game, the graphics and the controls. This took a little more time since testing the game on the Deck was simply fun!

Got some extra testing help - forget about that Switch!

Trying to beat a mouse as input device is no easy task. While I'm still a bit better with a mouse, I am able to get very close to my high-scores on the Deck (but it does take some practice).

My main goal: getting the controls in shape so I could finish the Race skill level om the Steam Deck. Yeah, beating VanAlphen is hard even with a mouse :)

Not have a Steam Deck yet? Don't worry, this update improves the game for everybody:

Better controller support (especially controllers with track pads like the Steam Controller/Deck)
Performance improvements
Better anti-aliasing on best graphics settings
Fixed many graphics glitches
Fixed many small bugs
Fixed selecting wrong (lowest) graphics settings on first startup

If you have a Steam Deck, please give us your honest feedback! Did the controller input mapping got applied correctly? How did you like the controls (trackpad) input? Did your run in any issues? Let us know!

Does this mean we stopped working on getting the game in shape for release? Definitely not! But more on that later...

Caromble!

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