Independent game studio
We enjoy playing games,
and developing games.
Broken Umbrella Games is a small studio making calm, cross-platform games that respect your attention and your data. No accounts, no tracking, no nagging.
Out now
Stewry — Infinite Runner
The calm, cross-platform infinite runner.
- Five procedurally generated floors, each an ever-growing street
- Swipe, WASD or D-pad — the same game on a phone, a laptop or a handheld
- Low-poly 3D built to stay smooth on low-powered devices
- Ambient soundscape you can mute without losing anything
- Status
- Released
- Genre
- Infinite runner / platformer
- Platforms
- Windows, Linux, Android
- Price
- Free to play · pay what you want on itch.io
How we build
Three things we will not trade away
- 01
Calm by default
No timers shouting at you, no streak to protect, no dark patterns engineered to pull you back. A game you can put down mid-run and not feel punished for.
- 02
Anonymous first
No account to create. Progress syncs anonymously, and the link to your device is severed the moment you uninstall. We do not track players, and nothing is sold on.
- 03
Runs on what you own
Low-poly art and a light footprint, so the frame rate holds on modest hardware. The same game on a phone, a laptop, or a handheld — not a cut-down port.
Also in the works
What else we are building
- In development Social / party
Sketchy Friends
A social drawing game for people who cannot draw.
- Android
- iOS
Devlog
Building in public
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Ten seconds to the main menu
Stewry's launch was doing its four startup jobs one after another instead of all at once. Fixing that, and what a big screen and a controller found on the way.
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A new home for the studio
The site has moved off WordPress onto a static build — faster, cheaper to host, and finally able to describe the games properly.
Want the next release?
The devlog has an RSS feed, and the newsletter goes out only when there is something real to say. No drip campaign, no re-engagement sequence.