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Genre: Fighting, Racing, Adventure, Indie

Riskers

Riskers developer interview

“If you want your game to be fun, there’s a lot you can learn from a game like GTA.” In an interview with Old School Gamer Magazine’s Patrick Hickey Jr., Shot X Studio lead developer Shota Bobokhidze discusses the role the original GTA played in creating the thrilling top-down shooter, Riskers.

https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/old-school-gamer-magazine-exclusive-inside-riskers/

Update #6 Now Live!



  • Added a new challenge
  • Ambulance appears after a short delay
  • Made enemy AI smarter
  • Fixed side missions still showing up as not complete
  • Fixed pause menu scaling issue
  • Enemy AI LOS depends on their equipped weapon
  • Minor tweaks and fixes

Update #5 Now Live!



  • Added game stats
  • Improved enemy AI
  • Camera will zoom out slightly more while driving
  • Added retry mission/challenge to the pause menu
  • Fixed new NPCs getting stuck when scared
  • Fixed bug with side missions not starting
  • Added a crocodile (yes, a rideable crocodile)
  • Minor fixes

Beat the game 100%? There is a surprise waiting for you!

Update #4 Now Live!



  • Adjusted car pivot points, driving is a lot more realistic now (handbrake is also more useful now)
  • Added car names
  • Added a new car - Lacroix
  • Balanced car speeds and handling
  • Police and ambulance siren volume fades away with the distance
  • Added a new cheat 'notnow' - makes your car invincible
  • Fixed a bug in a side mission where crashing the car and dying simultaneously would show both challenge complete and challenge failed
  • Minor tweaks and fixes


Tell us what you think about the new driving changes and the new update, leave a comment or share your opinion in the forums. Thank you all!

Update #3 Now Live!



  • Added 2 new type of NPCs
  • Ambulance is here to help! or try at least...
  • Added cheats: situation, wohoho, and the last one is - not heaven ;)
  • Traffic lights switch more often
  • Increased police car speed and acceleration
  • Added a confirmation dialog when starting a new game so that you don't accidentally overwrite your save
  • Added a new setting for mouse lock (mouselock = 2 in settings.ini)
  • Added resolution scale fix option
  • Fixed sound volume not affecting ambience until restart
  • Minor tweaks and fixes

Our most popular achievement is...



Our most popular achievement is...

IT'S A PRANK!

- Punch and run, have 3 or more people after you.

Followed by

CHAIR MASTER

- because who doesn't like throwing chairs around?

While you're waiting for the next update, why not check out the global gameplay stats and see how you compare.

Global Gameplay Stats

Hotfix #3



  • Hotfix for 4K issues
  • Fixed traffic getting stuck
  • Added mouse lock option


Thank you for your patience and support, please keep reporting any issues you find, suggestions or just general feedback.

Hotfix for cursor offset


  • Changed the function to return raw x, y mouse positions that should fix cursor offset issue.


If you're still having issues, please manually change the offset in settings.ini.

cursor = 1 (direct method)
cursor = 2 (raw x, y positions)
cursor = 3 (manual)

Update #2 Now Live!




  • Reduced police spawn rate
  • Increased sports cars top speed and acceleration
  • Some cars are now more damage resistant
  • Minor tweaks and fixes
  • Fixed the no sound issue (Linux)
  • Fixed 2 mouse cursors showing up (Linux)
  • Fixed cutscenes (Linux)

Linux Version Out Now!



Riskers is now available on Linux!



We hope you enjoy the game on the platform of your preference.