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Category: Co-op · Players: streamer flies, chat shapes the run · Status: Stable
The streamer is the flyer — tap to give lift, gravity pulls down, thread as many gates as possible. Chat shapes the run: cheap gifts spawn hazards to throw the flyer off course, premium gifts drop boosts to save them, and likes fill a crowd Hype meter that hands out free shields. It’s endless — play to failure, chasing the all-time record.

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Gameplay

1

The streamer flies

Their avatar rides the flyer, tapping to thread each gate. Difficulty ramps up the longer the run lasts.
2

Chat helps or sabotages

Send a gift to drop a boost or a hazard. Every object carries the sender’s avatar, so the room sees exactly who helped and who griefed.
3

Like to power the crowd

Likes fill a shared Hype meter; each time it fills, the room earns the flyer a free one-hit shield.

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How the run works

Updraft is cooperative chaos: the streamer supplies the flying, and chat decides whether to make it easier or harder — every effect tagged with the sender’s avatar.
A flyer threading gates, with a boost token and a hazard token dropping into its path

The streamer threads the gates while chat drops boosts (help) and hazards (sabotage)

  • The streamer threads gates. Each gate cleared adds to the score; running out of lives (three crashes by default) ends the run.
  • Boosts help. A shield absorbs one hit, a wider gate opens the next gap, and ghosting phases through pillars for a few seconds.
  • Hazards hurt. A downdraft gust shoves the flyer, a falling rock drops into the lane, a tighter gate pinches the next gap, and fog hides the field.
  • Every effect is attributed. The sender’s avatar rides their boost or hazard, and the run tracks an MVP (most saves) and a Top Griefer.

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Configuration

Mode. endless (default) plays to failure with difficulty escalating each stage, chasing the all-time record; staged turns clearing a set number of stages into a win. Lives. How many crashes the flyer can take before the run ends. Gates per stage / Stages. The stage structure — how many gates make a stage, and (in staged mode) how many stages to clear. Hype goal. How many likes fill the crowd meter to drop one free shield. Gift → effect. Optionally pin specific gifts to specific effects. Any gift you don’t map falls back to the cost brackets below.

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Layout

Labeled layout of the Updraft play surface

Updraft — play surface

  1. Marquee — game title and how-to hint.
  2. HUD — score (gates threaded), lives, stage, and the all-time record.
  3. Flight canvas — the flyer threading gates; boosts and hazards drop in carrying the sender’s avatar.
  4. Hype meter — the crowd’s likes; fills to drop a free shield.
  5. Gift legend + crowd — which gifts map to which effects, and the contributor pile with MVP / Top Griefer.
The game moves through Lobby → Playing → Game over.

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Gifts

Gifts are the heart of Updraft, and the cost of the gift decides whether it helps or hurts.
A cost ladder from cheap hazards to premium boosts, plus likes filling a Hype meter into a free shield

Cheap gifts spawn hazards; premium gifts drop boosts. Likes fill a Hype meter that drops free shields.

Any gift the host hasn’t explicitly mapped follows the cost brackets:
  • Likes are separate. They don’t each spawn an effect — they fill the Hype meter, and each fill drops a free shield credited to the liker who topped it off.
  • The host can override the map. Any gift can be pinned to a specific effect; unmapped gifts follow the brackets above.

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Scoring

  • Score is gates threaded across the run; endless runs chase the streamer’s all-time record.
  • There’s no per-viewer win — it’s cooperative — but the run credits an MVP (most boosts) and a Top Griefer (most hazards), and viewers earn achievements for helping or sabotaging.
  • In staged mode, clearing the final stage is a win.