TAILS UP! — Dev Log | Blue Rain Studio

A 3D physics arcade game built on the schoolyard disc game: tazos, pogs, milk caps, whatever they were called where you grew up. You throw the slammer, the board comes apart, and every disc that lands face down joins your pile.GenrePhysics ArcadePlatformPC · SteamPlayersSingle-playerStatusIn DevelopmentNo aim line. Just the throw and what it does.A board, a scatter of discs lying face up, and a slammer in your hand. You drag and you let go. There is no guide, no arc to line up, no numbers to read first. The slammer hits the board and everything after that happens without you.The half-second while it is still bouncing is the point of the game. You have already committed and you do not yet know what you bought. Discs that end up face down are yours; the rest stay where they landed, waiting for the next one.What you keep changes how you throw. A heavier pile means a heavier slammer and a wider spread, so each throw is a little less well behaved than the one before it. The discs come in families, and finishing a family is worth something that keeps paying rather than something you spend.Most games built this way invent an abstract action and teach it to you. This one did not have to. Millions of people already played it, on pavements and schoolyards from Latin America to the Philippines to Turkey, and they know what it is before anyone explains it.The look is the one the discs came in: neon on black, outlines thick enough to cut yourself on, slime where slime does not belong. A dark, scuffed board with the colour exploding on top of it, seen from above at an angle, close enough to feel the table.2 entries · newest first5 October 2026 The throw works, and nothing else does A board, a slammer and a drag gesture, in Unity. No menus, no upgrades, no economy. Just the one question the prototype exists to answer. This is the whole prototype: a board, discs lying on it, and a slammer you throw with the mouse. You drag, you release, it lands, the board comes apart. Then it tells you how many flipped and waits for you to do it again. There is deliberately nothing else. No upgrade screen, no run structure, no collection, no shop. All of that is designed and none of it is in here, because none of it answers the question this build is for: with the scaffolding stripped off, is throwing the thing fun on its own? If the answer is no, no amount of progression rescues it, and better to find that out now than after building the progression. The scoring is in because scoring is part of the throw rather than part of the economy: the counter, the chain when a flip knocks another one over, the word that comes up when you catch the board right. They exist to tell you what just happened. Everything that decides what a flip is worth comes later. Unity, and the editor shot is in here on purpose. A dev log that only shows the frame after the screenshot tool has been pointed at the pretty part is a trailer with extra steps. In engine A throw that landed. The +1 is the whole feedback loop so far. In engine PERFECT is a reaction, not a reward. Nothing is spending it yet. In engine Forty discs in. The board gets crowded, which is its own problem to solve. In engine The actual state of it. The console is complaining that a swipe was too short. PrototypeUnity24 September 2026 Ten discs, and none of them are worth anything yet The first set of faces: skulls, eyeballs and one tentacle, in the colours the originals came in. These are the discs. Ten faces to start, skulls mostly, a few eyeballs and one thing with tentacles. The point of doing them before anything else is that the board has to read at a glance. You are looking down at a crowd of them and you need to know which is which while the slammer is still in the air. The colours are not a mood board, they are a memory. Neon on black with an outline thick enough to survive being printed badly on cardboard, which is exactly what happened to the originals. Half the appeal of the things was that they looked loud and cheap and slightly disgusting. They do nothing yet. None of them is rarer than another, nothing completes a set, and the pile does not know what it is holding. That is next. Blender render All of them on the board at once, which is the only test that matters: can you tell them apart at a glance? Blender render Skull, green. Blender render Skull, pink. Blender render Skull, red. Blender render Skull, purple. Blender render Skull, red and yellow. Blender render The chrome one. Every set had one and everybody wanted it. Blender render Eye, blue. Blender render Eye, pink. Blender render Eye, yellow. Blender render And whatever this is. BlenderNew entries land here first.TAILS UP! is in development and this page is where the work gets written down: what changed, what broke, and what we decided instead. Discord is where it gets argued about.© 2026 Blue Rain Studio. All rights reserved.TAILS UP!, in development.Studio