First of all, we didn't lose confidence in the project! We have put a lot of work and love into the development of this chaotic piece of colorful pastime and we stand by it 100%! But, truth be told, it didn't perform as well as we had hoped. Which - in part - has to do with UpBreakers being our debut game and us having had no idea how to market a project like this. Nevertheless, we had many wonderful people support us not only on Kickstarter but also on Twitch and YouTube! Together, we had a lot of fun dashing, running and jumping through the levels - wreaking havoc on each map :)

Since the revenue did not meet our expectations we had to face the fact that we could not further develop UpBreakers full-time. Since we knew that, the plan was to put it on hold for now and revisit it when we'd find the time. Since we couldn't deliver more content during our targeted timeframe to full release, we decided it'd only be fair to put a smaller pricetag on the game.

We had the pleasure to work with great people on this project and to all of you who supported us in some way: Your energy and love is highly appreciated! Your support went into every fiber, every line of code and every frame you see and will continue to do so. We have some unfinished content which we hope to bring to you at some point in the future!

Until then, UpBreakers lives on and we would love to invite all of you to a round or ten of chaotic destruction and fun on the servers! Our Discord is (and will stay) open for you so drop us a line!

Right now, everyone could use a little distraction. That's why we're having a huge sale on UpBreakers!

Not only are we releasing a new map for the game, we're also adding a bunch more destruction! You can actually destroy most of the walls in a map now and decide which way is fastest for you and your team.

The map will be published on April 20th and in light of this happy occasion we shaved the price a bit. So let your friends know about UpBreakers and while you're at it, come join our Discord Server to be the first to know about new stuff. We're also beta-testing most of our maps beforehand so you will be able to give us your feedback BEFORE the map is final!


Happy Easter egg hunt!

We might have teased our next map here and there. So far, we weren't quite at a point to show you pictures, yet. However, today is the day - time for letting you guys and gals know about our progress!



The UpBreakers behind barred windows - how could it have come to this? Whatever they did (or didn't do) the objective now is to get out of this fustercluck and back to their dayjobs. Contrary to the houses they normally visit, there are no open doors in the pen so the UpBreakers have to do what they do best: wreak chaos and destruction!

The very highly sophisticated and complex engine behind the acronym D.A.S.H. (Destroy Any Structure Handling system) was conceived by our mastermind coder and will be implemented with the next huge content update.
Its sole function: MORE destruction, MORE chaos, MORE fun fun fun!



You can destroy walls in the game already! But right now this feature is limited to certain walls - the level designer has spoken and so it was. The new update will give you much more freedom to choose your own crazy ways. Basically, you could take down the whole map and never deliver a single box. Won't bring you any points, but you know: it's possible.

We really want to make the D.A.S.H. known - the D.A.S.H. has to be worshiped - the D.A.S.H. must be obeyed! So, in the prison map, there is no getting around the D.A.S.H. as there are no paths leading directly to the BOXVAC-4000, no open doors and no windows to simply jump through. Use the D.A.S.H. wisely for it will reward you. With great D.A.S.H. comes great destructibilty. Become one with the D.A.S.H. to finally - and in a deepened voice - say "I'm D.A.S.H.MAN".

We're still working on the map. There are assets yet to be forged, bytes to be coded and lights to be built. However, we feel, we're almost there. And to those of you who don't want to wait that long: We still have open spots in our closed beta (sounds contradictory, I know) and you can apply for it by simply heading over to our Discord and reading more about it in the #announcements channel.



May the D.A.S.H. be with you.



hype intensifies

We planned this for quite a while and today it's finally here: The UpBreakers Artbook!

Since before we even started development in late 2017 we collected quite a number of sketches, artworks, assets and visual concepts. Putting them together and walking down memory lane has been a lot of fun!

• 25 pages of visuals (sketches, artworks, concepts)
  
• Anecdotes of the design and thought processes
  
• Insight into the visual development
  
• Much blood, sweat and tears of the developers

We hope, you'll enjoy the Artbook and look forward to your feedback!

Since Steam doesn't offer an easy way to make DLC files accessibe from your game collection, after you bought the DLC, you'll most likely find it here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\UpBreakers\Artbook - Beauties and Brainfarts.

Small but important UpDate: The game choses the optimum quality settings for your system at start-up now. You can still set this to whatever you want, though!

Dust the old conifer and hang up yer socks - Christmas is near! We're always saying how excited we are but today marks a new high of excitement: We have finished our second map and it is out today for you to ransack!

Jacky, Jana, Thomas, Lukas and I have been working on this since we launched UpBreakers mid November and already had a blast play-testing it with Geruhn and his band of streamers to iron out all the kinks and having a lot of fun doing it.



While Santa is nowhere in sight (the elves suspect an evergrowing addiction to battle royal games) his little helpers take matters in their own hands. Pretty soon artistic differences come to light: What color of paper goes with which box? Should the cookies have chocolate or pink sprinkles? Does the snow taste better white or yellow? Angry and bored with the chores of wrapping, building, baking and packing, they decide to make a wager of who would finish loading the sleigh first...



We hope you'll have as much fun as we were having making it!

Merry Christmas to you all!

• Added: Made the news bulletin diplay multiple entries
  
• Fixed: The pause menu would not work correctly when playing in local splitscreen
  
• Fixed: Players would spawn outside of the map when not having enough spawn points
  
• Added: new selection menu for the play mode
  
• Added: introduced a map selection for the local multiplayer modes and changed how the map gets selected in the online multiplayer lobby
  
• Fixed: when a gesture was interrupted, the interruption was not replicated correctly in some cases

We feel honored that UpBreakers will be played during the charity stream for the "Kinderhospitzdienst Karlsruhe" tomorrow!

The event will start at 10 am (CET) to raise money for a good cause so we are greatful for everyone who visits the stream of Gaming Aid and show their support!

If you're lucky, you can even get a free copy of UpBreakers for yourself or a friend during the event, so go check it out!

In Version 1.0.0-3368111 we added a news bulletin in the main menu and did some minor fixing in the lobby:

• We fixed some issues with text style
  
• You can use gestures now (tap or double-tap the D-pad)
  
• You can use the dash now

as we said: minor!

So if you feel, your time has been wasted, enjoy this little web-generated poem:

My love for Upbreakers is so great,
my heart melts for it 'til the dusk of day.
The night downloads when it's away,
waste, update 'til day's dawn.

Its beauty is great,
Wondering mind 'til it sees,
wait is all I do,
While waiting for the moment, for it to say "I do."