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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

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · Mar 19

Want to see what we’ve been cooking up? 🏃‍♂️
Here's a sneak peek.

#videogame #gamedev #speedrun

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · 1d

Tagging in on where Adam left off Paddy has started adding art to our real time mesh generator. Some snaggs here and there but a core set of pieces allow for some good feels

Build, build...DESTROY, DESTROY....!

#gamedev #procgen #gameart

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · 6d

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

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · 6d

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

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · 14d

What's this little fella?? #gamedev #indiedev #prototype

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · 14d

First things first - that little 'blobby' feeling when adding and removing pieces. #gamedev #procgen #gamecode #indiedev

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · 15d

While Paddy is putting some visual love into Sky-Skater, Ad is starting on our second microgame. Let's get some simple real time mesh generation working... #gamedev #procgen #indiedev

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · 15d

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

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · 20d

Some good progress in the last day - transparent floor, visual effects and extra props are bringing it together! #gamedev #retrogame #indiegame

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · 21d

Our hoverboard-ey toy is coming on nicely! We've an updated player character, colour palette and some (massively faked) animation. #gamedev #indiedev

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · 23d

It's amazing what a difference some first pass art can make to a prototype. #gamedev #indiedev #gameart

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · 27d

We've added speed management to our little skate prototype - if you time your boosts right you can go pretty fast!

#gamedev
#indiedev

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · 28d

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

Upstream Arcade

We make action games brimming with innovation, style and soul.

upstreamarcade.itch.io

Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · 28d

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...

Steam Curator: Upstream Arcade

store.steampowered.com

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · 29d

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

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · Sep 6

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

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · Sep 6

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

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · Sep 5

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

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · Sep 2

Some funky shader and tech art here from Adam.

#gameart #gamedev

Adam Langridge @ajlangridge.bsky.social · Aug 28

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.

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · Aug 22

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

Image shows a hoverboard rider on the roof tops of a neon wave cyberpunk skyscraper with a half pipe and ramps to ride. The image is made up of flat shaded colours, simple geometry and pixel UI

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · Aug 22

Anyone else getting mad Pingu vibes from Adam's latest additions?

Noot Noot!

Adam Langridge @ajlangridge.bsky.social · Aug 22

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.

Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · Aug 21

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:

Adam Langridge @ajlangridge.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · Jul 23

Hello David, thank you for checking. Not yet, we will post here when its up on Steam.

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · Jun 25

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

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Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · Jun 24

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

Image is created in photoshop featuring hand drawn sketches. There are four sketches in total all showing different stages of a Killboost gameplay mechanic we explored. The first is a white lined doodle of an enemy exploding - this is the cause. Sketch two is of the Echo area visual effect the destroyed enemy creates - its is a of a black circle with white outlines and a muiltcoloured shimmer. The third sketch shows the player character passog over or through a circular echo effect. The last sketch shows the result of the player character passing through the area of echo and how it creates a zoom effect that eminates from the player as they surge forward.

Upstream Arcade @upstreamarcade.com · Jun 24

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