Developer posts and news about this game.
I'm entering Upwell in some festivals so I wanted to take new screenshots. First, I had a backlog of visual changes I wanted to make so the screenshots would be better. So here you go! Oh yeah and a sound effect cuz I had flstudio open and wanted to do something productive. Enjoy
As I started exploring new content, I hit some things that were slowing me down. The file responsible for procgen of the well was 700 lines of messy one-off rules and unnecessary extra passes. It was getting hard for me to add new things, so I set a day aside and rewrote the proc
After another successful round of first-time playtester feedback, I have a wave of changes aimed at fixing a few problems, refining gameplay, and continuing to cook with the item pool. I'm nearing the point where I crawl into my cave and grind out the remaining content for the ga
I recently stumbled on a Reddit thread of a dev named Shifty playing other peoples games and providing live feedback on Twitch . I submitted Upwell and got to watch nearly an hour-long first impression of the game. The headline of the playtest was: learning phase is too hard. And
Its been a scattered but eventful week of Upwell work. I feel like the game transformed in a good way, but I'll leave that to you to decide! As always let me know what you think of the changes, player feedback is the main way that I decide what to focus on next. GLHF! - edit Keys
Lately each update has made me more excited to work on the next. Now that the base game loop has been solid for a few releases, I'm exploring every angle to juice mechanics to the max. In this stage, everything that was incidentally carried along from release to release is either
I started this update right after 0.8, and for a week or two I fanatically made new art assets. I'm really happy with the results. Then I got sidetracked for a few months. During that time I thought about the next move. When I recently got more free time back, I made some big cha