Review and approval

Submit a game. We play it, then it goes live.

To submit a game to StreamArena, you build it with the SDK, test it in the lab, and send it in for review: we play every game on a test stream with chat and phones, check it against a short list of rules, and approve it or send notes. Submissions open with the maker launch.

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Test it in the lab

Play a full game with a pretend chat for each platform and your phone as a player.

Send it in

Your game file and its content, with a one sentence tagline for the gallery card.

We play it

On a test stream, with chat and phones, at a small and a big chat size.

Approved or notes

Approved games go into the gallery with your name. Otherwise you get notes and can send it again.

What we check

Our own games follow the same rules.

StreamArena review rules

StreamArena review rules
Rule	What we check
Plays by phone	Every round works with phone join. Chat is the upgrade, never the only way in
Fun with 1 to 5	A small stream can finish a game. The house player has something to say
Reads in a second	Big text, one idea at a time, readable on a phone-sized player
Learnable in one round	The first round teaches the game. No rules screen
Short rounds	20 to 60 seconds, then a reveal that is fun to watch
Safe on stream	Names and text go through the safety filter. No gambling mechanics
Funny, never mean	Jokes are about the game, never about a player
Yours to publish	You have the rights to every image, clip and sound in it

Why do you play every game?

Because a game that works in code can still fall flat on stream. Text that is fine on a laptop can be unreadable on a phone, and a round that is fun with fifty players can be dead with three. So we play every game like a streamer would.

What happens after approval?

Your game goes into the gallery next to ours, with your name on the card, and every streamer can pick it in Upstream.so and in OBS. In the creator program, you keep 100% of what it earns for the first two years.