https://upflydev.com/blog/ Engineering notes and release logs from UpFlyDev. en https://upflydev.com/blog/boom-launch https://upflydev.com/blog/boom-launch Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A circus cannon physics game, now on the App Store and Google Play. Act 1 is free. How a bot clears every stage before a release, a carousel that turns only the picture, and one build in three places. https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-planet-rescue-youtube-playables https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-planet-rescue-youtube-playables Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT One of the five Solar Puzzles games is now a YouTube Playable: forty missions, Mystery Flights and the Space Museum, free inside YouTube. https://upflydev.com/blog/lumen-1-2-1 https://upflydev.com/blog/lumen-1-2-1 Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A fifth building where a prism splits the light into red and blue and a dark crystal must stay dark. How a prism fits a game of mirrors, and how a test proves a dark crystal is needed. https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-1-7-1 https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-1-7-1 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pixel pictures built of blocks, puzzles made up on the spot, and a museum where you jump on worlds, fly real missions and bend light around a black hole. https://upflydev.com/blog/expedition-launch https://upflydev.com/blog/expedition-launch Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A nonogram game about field work, now on the App Store and Google Play. Africa is free, one purchase opens the rest. Why no grid is drawn by hand, and one web build in three places. https://upflydev.com/blog/lumen-youtube-playables https://upflydev.com/blog/lumen-youtube-playables Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lumen: Light & Mirrors is now a YouTube Playable. Open it in the YouTube app or on youtube.com and play free, with nothing to install. https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-1-7 https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-1-7 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A game library with Favorites and Continue, tabs that slide, a museum on four shelves, and a grown-up check that asks for a year instead of a sum. https://upflydev.com/blog/lumen-1-2 https://upflydev.com/blog/lumen-1-2 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT One purchase opens every building above the free workshop, and finished buildings make new puzzles on the spot. How a generated puzzle is held to the rules of a level, and a purchase with no server. https://upflydev.com/blog/cyclewingman-1-4-2 https://upflydev.com/blog/cyclewingman-1-4-2 Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Wingman+ now warns you a couple of days ahead instead of the morning it starts, tablets get a real two-column layout, and the tab bar floats everywhere. https://upflydev.com/blog/lumen-1-1 https://upflydev.com/blog/lumen-1-1 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A fourth building with portals and a splitter, new rules in the observatory and an ending. How every mirror budget is checked by search, and a review sheet that never answers. https://upflydev.com/blog/barcode-info-1-3 https://upflydev.com/blog/barcode-info-1-3 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Premium as one payment with no server behind it, and free notes, filters and two panes for everyone. Why the internet permission came back on Android, and where a paywall should stand. https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-1-6-3 https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-1-6-3 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Block frames, colours and surfaces in Planet Portals, marble materials and redrawn ships in Cosmic Marbles, new artwork in Planet Blocks — and the road that replaced three tabs. https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-1-6-2 https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-1-6-2 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every game now plays its first board for you and offers a move when you stall. Planet Trails is free to start, Cosmic Marbles begins one piece at a time, and a sound effect no longer steals a frame. https://upflydev.com/blog/lumen-web-launch https://upflydev.com/blog/lumen-web-launch Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lumen is live on the web. Place mirrors, guide a beam into a crystal and explore atmospheric workshops and laboratories. Free to play, with no ads, account or installation. https://upflydev.com/blog/barcode-info-1-2 https://upflydev.com/blog/barcode-info-1-2 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A GS1 code is not one number, it is a list of fields. Barcode Info 1.2 reads them out: batch or lot, best before and expiry, serial number, pallet number, weight and size. https://upflydev.com/blog/cyclewingman-1-4 https://upflydev.com/blog/cyclewingman-1-4 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT English, Russian and Polish, picked up from your phone or pinned in Settings — across the forecast, the journal, the planner, the Apple Watch app and the widgets. https://upflydev.com/blog/barcode-info-launch https://upflydev.com/blog/barcode-info-launch Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT An offline barcode scanner on the App Store and Google Play. The engineering: an honest answer to the country question, a release manifest that drops INTERNET, and a 320 ms burst that buys a sharper photo. https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-1-6 https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-1-6 Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A children's game grew a paid tier without taking anything away. Planet Trails, a deeper museum, and a pass that is access rather than a possession. https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-1-5 https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-1-5 Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A gentle pace instead of an endless one: a lost run costs a heart, one comes back every 20 minutes, and nothing can be bought to skip the wait. https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-1-4 https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-1-4 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A puzzle that keeps teaching: gravity that turns sideways, comets you cannot burn in one go, and one that lands in your tray so the player chooses where the trouble goes. https://upflydev.com/blog/cyclewingman-1-3 https://upflydev.com/blog/cyclewingman-1-3 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A planner for the date, the talk or the big ask; a journal that reads your own notes back to you; and a forecast calibrated to one relationship — all still on-device. https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-1-3-0 https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-1-3-0 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Danger you can see instead of difficulty you can't — plus a SwiftUI halo that inflated a black hole, version strings that had quietly lied, and one shared version number across two stores. https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-launch https://upflydev.com/blog/solar-puzzles-launch Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A kids' space puzzle collection, now on both stores. The engineering: a measured 9 fps vs 57 fps that killed our cross-platform plan, one Canvas per board, and an app with no networking code at all. https://upflydev.com/blog/cyclewingman-1-2 https://upflydev.com/blog/cyclewingman-1-2 Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Private, on-device day notes on the calendar and Apple Watch, a redesigned day view — plus the engineering behind them. https://upflydev.com/blog/cyclewingman-1-1 https://upflydev.com/blog/cyclewingman-1-1 Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Home-screen widgets, Apple Watch complications, daily heads-ups and Face ID lock — plus the engineering behind them. https://upflydev.com/blog/cyclewingman-1-0 https://upflydev.com/blog/cyclewingman-1-0 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT How we built an app with no servers at all — and kept two forecast engines in perfect parity.