Every now and then I think about UFO 50 and am reminded that it is one of the best indie games of all time. I don't even hesitate to say that. There's no 'Except' or 'But'. It's just a stone cold classic that really deserves to be ten times as well known. And it's still relatively unknown!

This is such an exceptional insight into how this game is made! Huge kudos @walaber.com

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...

This was one of the first games I played - and it completely ruled.

We're off to #LondonGamesFestival tomorrow (Thursday) with our pals at Secret Sauce. If anyone is around and fancies a chat, let me know!

If anyone is willing to share, I would be very appreciative!! 🔧🍃 We've just set the launch trailer live for Piece by Piece, our cozy repair shop game that is coming THIS WEEK, on March 11!! You can see it below, and find the game here: store.steampowered.com/app/3179050/...

Wow - I'm really excited that our game is finally announced. I'm so proud of all the people who put this together, what a great team, and thanks to everyone at @thesecretsauce.uk for partnering up to get it out there!

Hi, I reviewed Pieced Together, a beautiful narrative game about friendship, growing up and growing apart, told through a cute interactive scrap book. By @glowfroggames.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/games/2026/f...

Quite the roster in the form of a Steam sale celebrating Guildfords finest for this years Guildford.Games Festival! store.steampowered.com/sale/Guildfo...

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...

"Animated Bokeh" has been on my whiteboard for a long time, and this is the result. I thought it would just be for cheesy novelty effects, but it also does lightfield manipulation that was cooler than I expected. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2...

Very soon I will be ✨available for work✨ If you’re interested in who I am and what it is I do/have done then here’s a little introduction thread about myself and my work.

And here it is whizzing around!

Eep - we've only gone and released one of our little toys. We hope you enjoy it! #gamedev #indiegame

We've been fixing the last (hopefully) few bugs ready for launch. It's a tiny little toy, but we've put a lot of love into it. Hope you enjoy it.

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

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

Great news - a wholly unique and completely 'Carter' experience!

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

Eek! The pressure is on - better make sure it's ready in time.

I first bumped into Tomas when we were showing West of Dead for the first time, and this developer is a force of nature - congratulations on such a fantastic looking update!

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

We've had loads of fun making these toys, hope you like them too. More info to come! #gamedev #indiedev #videogames

There's something vaguely satisfying about getting the code to figure out the unique combinations for our mesh system. #gamedev #coding

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“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

This was a fun morning with shaders and animating to get up and running! #gamedev #indiegames

It's pretty fun putting this together! #gamecode #gamedev #indiedev

I'm really enjoying seeing all the Character that Paddy has brought to this little scene! #gamedev #indiedev

It's always fun getting those visual touches in that provide better feedback and feel. #gamedev #indiedev #gamecode

I've been having quite a lot of fun noodling around with this toy! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

It's always a highlight getting handed some art to put into a prototype and then it suddenly becoming a game. #gamedev #indiedev #gameplay

I've had a fun time creating our little skate prototype - perfectly timed presses and releases of the 'boost' button lets you accelerate when taking off and landing - just don't smash into stuff! #gamedev #indiedev

I'm really looking forward to putting some of our little projects on here. #indiegames #itch

Huge if true!

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...

This was a fun one to get working - I'm looking forward to seeing @pmartin123.bsky.social 's lovely ideas going into this tech. #gamedev #coding #procgen

Aha - now we're working in 3D - I've got some over the top colours going on but you can get a rough idea of the correct meshes being chosen based on the underlying grid!

A bit more progress, the objects that are placed can now be rotated, this is handy because it means we can get more out of fewer objects!

Some early progress on the cube based editing, I'm using an offset grid so each square that is placed is actually represented by four other pieces combining. Bright garish colours show how this works.

I'm a lucky coder. Today I get to do some level editing code based on cubes - picture Townscaper, and then make it way less clever, no - less clever than that. That's it, that's what I'm making.

Absolutely loving the concept and execution of Echo - Defy Death: youtu.be/IYdm1IlrNgM?...

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.

A little more progress - now with dithered transparency and a placeholder skybox! #indiedev #graphicscode

Here's step one in our lo-fi renderer experiment. Includes down-sampled rendering, dithered shadows and flattened lighting. It's a bit hacky, but gives us a rough sense of where it could go. #indiedev #graphicscode

Here's the very modest beginning - a basic scene, single light using #unity3d's standard rendering. I'll be hacking derezzifying this shortly. #graphicscoding

I'm diving into graphics coding this week to emulate the look of Sega's groundbreaking AM2 Model 1 Graphics card from back in 1992(!). I remember Virtua Fighter blowing my mind back in the day so it's a treat to revisit its aesthetic. #graphicscoding

The last few touches for the weeks work. A constrained camera that tries to avoid going beyond the arena, and a bit of 'carving' style leaning seems to make a nice difference. Onto the next prototype! #GameDev #Prototype