Upstream Arcade
@upstreamarcade.com
We make games!
Hellboy: Web of Wyrd | West of Dead | Deadbeat Heroes
upstreamarcade.com
https://upstreamarcade.itch.io/
Steam Page
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45773240
Find out more or come say hi!
linktr.ee/upstreamarcade
Hellboy: Web of Wyrd | West of Dead | Deadbeat Heroes
upstreamarcade.com
https://upstreamarcade.itch.io/
Steam Page
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45773240
Find out more or come say hi!
linktr.ee/upstreamarcade
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Announcing our first 'Gem' - Sky Skater! - a minimal, chillout hover skate game. Think Back to the future 2 meets Chopper from 2000A.D. (are we showing our age?)
Coming soon to itch! Add the title to your collection and be told when it's out! upstreamarcade.itch.io/sky-skater
#indiedev #indiegame
Coming soon to itch! Add the title to your collection and be told when it's out! upstreamarcade.itch.io/sky-skater
#indiedev #indiegame
October 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Announcing our first 'Gem' - Sky Skater! - a minimal, chillout hover skate game. Think Back to the future 2 meets Chopper from 2000A.D. (are we showing our age?)
Coming soon to itch! Add the title to your collection and be told when it's out! upstreamarcade.itch.io/sky-skater
#indiedev #indiegame
Coming soon to itch! Add the title to your collection and be told when it's out! upstreamarcade.itch.io/sky-skater
#indiedev #indiegame
We're excited to share an upcoming collection of *tiny* projects - Upstream Arcade GEMS. Each 'Gem' will feature a completely different idea that we've always wanted to try. It's fun to figure new things out, and even more fun to share them with you. Stay tuned!
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
October 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We're excited to share an upcoming collection of *tiny* projects - Upstream Arcade GEMS. Each 'Gem' will feature a completely different idea that we've always wanted to try. It's fun to figure new things out, and even more fun to share them with you. Stay tuned!
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
September 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Paddy has been living his best life, and fulfilling his dream of making low-poly flying cars for our Sky-Skater minigame. #cyberpunk #gamedev #gameart
September 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Paddy has been living his best life, and fulfilling his dream of making low-poly flying cars for our Sky-Skater minigame. #cyberpunk #gamedev #gameart
Some good progress in the last day - transparent floor, visual effects and extra props are bringing it together! #gamedev #retrogame #indiegame
September 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Some good progress in the last day - transparent floor, visual effects and extra props are bringing it together! #gamedev #retrogame #indiegame
More exciting news!
We are sharing a link to our new itch.io page where we will be posting some fun things to play in the future
We are sharing a link to our new itch.io page where we will be posting some fun things to play in the future
Upstream Arcade
We make action games brimming with innovation, style and soul.
upstreamarcade.itch.io
September 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
More exciting news!
We are sharing a link to our new itch.io page where we will be posting some fun things to play in the future
We are sharing a link to our new itch.io page where we will be posting some fun things to play in the future
Hello!
In a major announcement that we expect to be the lead story on tonight's news and children to talk about in the school yard... our Upstream Arcade store page has gone live on Steam!
Please head there to check out our games!
store.steampowered.com/curator/4577...
In a major announcement that we expect to be the lead story on tonight's news and children to talk about in the school yard... our Upstream Arcade store page has gone live on Steam!
Please head there to check out our games!
store.steampowered.com/curator/4577...
Steam Curator: Upstream Arcade
store.steampowered.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Hello!
In a major announcement that we expect to be the lead story on tonight's news and children to talk about in the school yard... our Upstream Arcade store page has gone live on Steam!
Please head there to check out our games!
store.steampowered.com/curator/4577...
In a major announcement that we expect to be the lead story on tonight's news and children to talk about in the school yard... our Upstream Arcade store page has gone live on Steam!
Please head there to check out our games!
store.steampowered.com/curator/4577...
Here's the core functionality of the Grid Mesh Generation code. You can add and remove cubes and the mesh dynamically generates based on their relationship to one another. We're using a very simple set of meshes to test, but stay tuned for some more fun!
#gamedev
#procgen
#programming
#gamedev
#procgen
#programming
September 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Here's the core functionality of the Grid Mesh Generation code. You can add and remove cubes and the mesh dynamically generates based on their relationship to one another. We're using a very simple set of meshes to test, but stay tuned for some more fun!
#gamedev
#procgen
#programming
#gamedev
#procgen
#programming
Here's our mesh generation working in all 3 dimensions! Lots of rotation and mirroring are used to keep the number of meshes required down (around 20 meshes). It's getting there!
#gamedev
#gamedev
September 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Here's our mesh generation working in all 3 dimensions! Lots of rotation and mirroring are used to keep the number of meshes required down (around 20 meshes). It's getting there!
#gamedev
#gamedev
Here's a little more progress on the mesh generation. It's all a bit cleaner, and now tiles can be rotated so that we get more usage out of each tile - very helpful for art.
#gamedev
#gamedev
September 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Here's a little more progress on the mesh generation. It's all a bit cleaner, and now tiles can be rotated so that we get more usage out of each tile - very helpful for art.
#gamedev
#gamedev
Ad's been working away on some fun mesh/level generation code - here is some early progress with simple 2d meshes. Each square placed is visually represented by other tiles around it - it's called an 'Offset Grid'.
#gamedev
#gamedev
September 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Ad's been working away on some fun mesh/level generation code - here is some early progress with simple 2d meshes. Each square placed is visually represented by other tiles around it - it's called an 'Offset Grid'.
#gamedev
#gamedev
The final steps of achieving the Low res graphical style is to capture the look of an arcade CRT display! This shader, inspired by Timothy Lottes' FixingPixelArt shader, involves horizontal blurring, scanlines, warping and a repeated colour mask. Hopefully the compression holds.
September 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Some mocked up visuals to go with Adam's gameplay prototyping.
Aiming for early 90s polygon arcade machine excitement with mixture of a few things going on here, brought together in Photoshop.
#gamedev #gameart #conceptart
Aiming for early 90s polygon arcade machine excitement with mixture of a few things going on here, brought together in Photoshop.
#gamedev #gameart #conceptart
August 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Some mocked up visuals to go with Adam's gameplay prototyping.
Aiming for early 90s polygon arcade machine excitement with mixture of a few things going on here, brought together in Photoshop.
#gamedev #gameart #conceptart
Aiming for early 90s polygon arcade machine excitement with mixture of a few things going on here, brought together in Photoshop.
#gamedev #gameart #conceptart
Anyone else getting mad Pingu vibes from Adam's latest additions?
Noot Noot!
Noot Noot!
And now with a simple jump and follow camera with a little lookahead. Possibly due to other games influences, jump on release seems to 'just' feel better.
August 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Anyone else getting mad Pingu vibes from Adam's latest additions?
Noot Noot!
Noot Noot!
We're trying a few things out here at Upstream and we are keen to share some prototype shenanigans alongside our #echobreaker development. Below is something Adam has been squirreling away on:
Time for a bit of gameplay prototyping. The first step is to handle both input and movement on different angled surfaces. After a bit of math shinanigans - we can now walk our orange box character up walls! #gamedev
August 21, 2025 at 7:58 AM
We're trying a few things out here at Upstream and we are keen to share some prototype shenanigans alongside our #echobreaker development. Below is something Adam has been squirreling away on:
VFX in game. Here are a number of concepts by Fran exlporing how #vfx might look within the game world. We were quite taken with how distortion might show the player character bending or shaping time and reality around them.
#indiegame #gameart #conceptart #echobreaker
#indiegame #gameart #conceptart #echobreaker
June 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
VFX in game. Here are a number of concepts by Fran exlporing how #vfx might look within the game world. We were quite taken with how distortion might show the player character bending or shaping time and reality around them.
#indiegame #gameart #conceptart #echobreaker
#indiegame #gameart #conceptart #echobreaker
VFX on KillBoost. A possible game mechanic: as you destroy an enemy an area of Echo boost is generated. The player can then pass through and gain extra speed. The images explore how VFX help the player understand the success of utilising that boost.
#indiegame #gameart #conceptart #vfx #echobreaker
#indiegame #gameart #conceptart #vfx #echobreaker
June 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
VFX on KillBoost. A possible game mechanic: as you destroy an enemy an area of Echo boost is generated. The player can then pass through and gain extra speed. The images explore how VFX help the player understand the success of utilising that boost.
#indiegame #gameart #conceptart #vfx #echobreaker
#indiegame #gameart #conceptart #vfx #echobreaker
Hi Everyone!
We are heading down to Develop Brighton!
If you're a publisher or friend who want to talk business and games, we'd love to catch up!
#DevelopBrighton
We are heading down to Develop Brighton!
If you're a publisher or friend who want to talk business and games, we'd love to catch up!
#DevelopBrighton
June 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Hi Everyone!
We are heading down to Develop Brighton!
If you're a publisher or friend who want to talk business and games, we'd love to catch up!
#DevelopBrighton
We are heading down to Develop Brighton!
If you're a publisher or friend who want to talk business and games, we'd love to catch up!
#DevelopBrighton