Echobreaker launches on Steam on August 6th! Watch the new release date trailer and get ready to push every run further than you probably should!

Ever wondered what our inspirations were for our upcoming speedrunner? 👀 Here's a snippet from our announcement during the @secondwindgroup.com showcase earlier this year!

Find shortcuts and cut down your run time in Echobreaker⚡ Demo Live Now for Next Fest🏃‍♂️

Steam Next Fest is still going, and you can jump into the Echobreaker demo now! Find that perfect line, and beat your own time🏃‍♂️

Take out every enemy in the trial to clear it. How fast can you go?🏃‍♂️

Think you've mastered the route?⚡ Try Echobreaker's Challenge Modifer Mode in our Next Fest demo and see how well your run holds up when the stakes are higher!

Hello! We are happy to share that we've an expanded demo for Echobreaker over on it's Steam page. Please follow the link below and check out more levels and the new Challenge Modifiers. Hope you have fun! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #gamedemo store.steampowered.com/news/app/438...

Here's a behind the scenes look into how our brains work when prototyping! These sketches are design ideas of a new feature for Echobreaker. You can play the demo now and during Next Fest ⚡🏃🏻 #ThrowbackThursday store.steampowered.com/app/4383700/...

Every second counts in Echobreaker. How much would you sacrifice for speed? 👀 Here's a snippet from our announcement during the @secondwindgroup.com showcase!

Hey, look at this! We've released a demo for Echobreaker that's available over on Steam. If you have a moment please go and check it out. Much obliged! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #gamedemo

Hey @upstreamarcade.com , cool game, figuring out the optimal routes is definitely a good brain exercise 💙

💥 THE ECHOBREAKER DEMO IS OFFICIALLY LIVE! 💥 We’re beyond stoked to finally pull back the curtain and let you get your hands on Echobreaker. Showcase your talent and secure your spot on the global leader boards! Run, don’t walk to Steam! 🏆 store.steampowered.com/app/4383700/...

Hey there, Pilots! We're in the Second Wind Games Showcase! @secondwindgroup.com Ad and Paddy from our Upstream dream team spill all about creating Echobreaker. Trust us, you're going to want to tune in for more news! 👀🫡 🤖 April 23 - 21:00 GMT youtube.com/@secondwindg...

The Second Wind Games Showcase airs on April 23, 2026 at 4 PM ET / 1 PM PT! It's jam packed with 90+ games including world premieres, exclusive announcements and more. We also partnered with @skillup.bsky.social, @minnmax.com and @watchexp.bsky.social to help curate some of the games!

🤖ECHOBREAKER - @upstreamarcade.com A lightning-fast precision speedrunner where you pilot an armoured rig that can manipulate time itself.

What name have TDS Industries assigned you? 👟💨 #Echobreaker

We’re excited to announce Echobreaker⚡ A lightning-fast precision platformer where you bend time, master momentum and chase the perfect run. Watch the trailer and wishlist now on Steam👇

We're heading over to the Guildford Games Festival on Friday 20th of February. We'll have a stand (and some stickers!) so keep an eye out for us and say hello! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/guildfordg...

Skyskater - our 90's inspired chillout hoverboard toy is OUT NOW! Here it is in motion! Check it out on @itch.io upstreamarcade.itch.io/sky-skater #indiegame #indiedev #itch

Skyskater - Our 90's inspired chillout hoverboard toy is OUT NOW! Check it out on #itch upstreamarcade.itch.io/sky-skater Happy Hoverboarding! #indiegame #indiedev

We've been cheeky in Sky Skater, there is a rotation of obstacles and ramps that are based on what day you play. Here is one of our favourites. Sky Skater upstreamarcade.itch.io/sky-skater - out 3rd Dec #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Enjoying the view... Sky Skater upstreamarcade.itch.io/sky-skater - out 3rd Dec #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

The Score Attack mode in Sky Skater really starts to pick up the challenge when you've shown you can handle it... Sky Skater upstreamarcade.itch.io/sky-skater - out 3rd Dec #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Watching your moves... Sky Skater upstreamarcade.itch.io/sky-skater - out 3rd Dec #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

In Sky Skater, the optional score attack mode starts to ask more of you once you get further in... Sky Skater upstreamarcade.itch.io/sky-skater - out 3rd Dec #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

The score attack mode starts out simple enough... Sky Skater upstreamarcade.itch.io/sky-skater - out 3rd Dec #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Just relaxing... Sky Skater upstreamarcade.itch.io/sky-skater - out 3rd Dec #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Once you feel you've mastered your hoverboard, you can opt into a simple time based score attack. Each pickup earns you more precious seconds, how long can you last? Sky Skater upstreamarcade.itch.io/sky-skater - out 3rd Dec #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

In Sky Skater, you get to hover board overlooking a futuristic city. We designed this game to be chilled out, but still provide ways to feel cool and perfect your line. upstreamarcade.itch.io/sky-skater - out 3rd Dec #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

And here's some hashtags that will no doubt help! #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

Launch date update! Wed December 3rd 2025! Sky Skater is a minimal, chillout hover skate toy with a score attack mode to stretch your skills. Think Back to the future 2 meets Chopper from 2000A.D (yes, we're old). Add it to your collection and be ready to soar! upstreamarcade.itch.io/sky-skater

Here be some colour and remaining pieces of our core building blocks. Pop-popping blocks into exsistence is very satisfying, especially as they wobble and settle. #gamedev #procgen #gameart #indiedev

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Some funky shader and tech art here from Adam. #gameart #gamedev