riskers

Riskers, which goes live on Steam today, is a top-down 2-D shooter heavily inspired by Grand Theft Auto — but not as most people know it. Rockstar’s open-world series didn’t become popular until the third game — there were two before it, which contained much of the same gameplay yet rendered it in a flat, top-down perspective. Rick Paradis is a garbageman with a criminal past who lucks into a briefcase filled with money (be careful what you throw out). A criminal syndicate was expecting that briefcase and now wants it back — and they make their point by killing Rick’s brother. Rick is now out for revenge, which is your excuse to go nuts in the city and take down a criminal empire as well as whatever else gets in your way. “Riskers pays homage to the types of games I used to play while growing up in Georgia (the country, not the state),” says Shota Bobokhidze. lead developer at Shot X Studios: “My main design pillar was to