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Unfortunately, I cannot give any definite dates. I have a lot of projects in the works; some having to do with Reckless Speed and a lot of them not. I do have one more set of levels I want to put out, but it may be a bit before I can get them finished. After that, I have a ton of ideas I will probably implement in Reckless Speed 2; like user-created levels, multi-player, etc.

I will keep you posted, though. Just cannot give any definite times as of right now.

Reckless Speed was developed in about 3 weeks for the Kongregate Unity contest. The contest was looking for games that were designed with Unity, original, and utilized Unity’s 3D capabilities.

I enjoy runner games; like Canabalt, Mr Runner, etc; and had been tossing around the idea of doing one, myself, for awhile. When the contest came out, and I needed a game idea, I went back to the idea of doing a “runner”. I needed it to utilize Unity’s 3D power, so simply making a typical side-scrolling runner was out of the question.

I decided to do one in first person view, so that the obstacles were coming directly at the player. Additionally, I am a thrill-seeker at heart. I love to bungee jump, sky dive, scuba dive, etc. I wanted to try and catch some of that “adrenaline rush” I get from those activities, and put it into a game. That is where the skydive segments as well as the more daring obstacles came from.

I also love a game that has RPG-progress elements to it (upgrades) and secrets spread out.

Essentially, all of that stewed together for the three weeks I had to work with, and Reckless Speed was born. There was… and still is… a lot more I want to do with it. I just have to find the time to polish it some more, add more stages, and a few other things I wish I had originally had time to include.

Hope that answers your question.

I am still here. The contest slowed down my work on Reckless Speed, but I do have another set of stages in the works. I have been putting a lot of my development time into a new game prototype, though. Hopefully, I will have something to show off relatively soon.

It is strange that it happened at all. As far as I can tell, the save script should be working fine. No reason for it to have lost your score for that stage or any other. I will spend some more time checking it all out, just to make sure I am not missing anything. Hopefully, it was just a glitch that should not happen again. My apologies it happened, at all, though.

Self-taught with the help of the Unity forums and all the other available resources out there on the net. Of course, I already had a background in C++, and a few other programming languages. It is easy to learn with no prior back-ground, though.

Hmm… interesting. I believe it is because of the way the save-game on your computer interacts with the High-Score API. It was her account logged into Kongregate, but Kongregate’s API was communicating with your saved game on your computer… so it used your high score for her account. Will look into fixing that for the next update. Thank you for the heads up.

I wanted to add something like that, yes. A place to off-load extra orbs for things like customized HUDs, etc. Just did not have the time to implement it all before the contest dead-line. I may still update with it, though.

I have, yes… often. I envision it as a “guitar hero” meets “RTS/RPG”. Licensing issues for the required music is one of the things that has kept me from attempting development. Who knows what the future holds, though.

Glad you enjoyed it. Was just meant as something to break up the fast pace of the main game. You know… to interrupt the player’s cursing tirade at “that #$@*ing moving obstacle!”

{Laugh} Yeah, that would be a bug I seemed to have let slip through. It will be fixed when I update with the new levels. Trying to decide if I want to just make the “End of Stage” actually work… like a short-cut for those who jump it… or just respawn players back before the gap. Until I fix it, though, just hit the “Restart” button on the bottom left.