News

Ver 1.05:

• Adjusted dialogue.
• Fixed a "Distance Reached" text display issue.
• Increased Booster invulnerability time.
• Fixed a bug where players would be incorrectly informed that they have enough money for more upgrades.

Ver 1.04:

• Added story and ending.
• Lowered some upgrade prices.
• Changed visuals on Headstart enable/disable button.
• Added progress counter (The Bank stock index).

Ver 1.03:

• Fixed a bug where users could idle in the tutorial to get a high distance record.

Ver 1.02:

• Fixed distance record incorrectly saving most recent distance travelled.
• Increased the length of time in-game messages are shown.

New Website

Welcome to our new site. In order to support increased traffic, we've moved to hosting on Amazon S3.

Ver 1.01 Patch:

• Added Back button functionality (Android).
• Added a distance reached message at the end of every run.
• Added color to the credits screen.

About: Skygoat

From our Google Play page:

It's time to put a stop to the evil multi-national company known as "The Bank." Become a modern-day Robin Hood. Race through an endless virtual landscape to hack the bank. Go farther into their dangerous network to steal more of their ill-gotten money. Spend the money you get to power up your cyber-avatar. You're the hacker we need!

With easy-to-use tap controls, you'll never lose because your swipe or tilt didn't work.

Features:

• Endless gameplay, no two runs are the same.
• 120+ permanent upgrades to buy.
• Unlock new skins for your Goat cyber-avatar.
• Easy-tap controls, no unresponsive swiping or tilting.
• Always free to play.
• Fully free, with no micro-transactions.
• Free updates!

Let's take out the evil bank!

About: Development

My Portfolio

Skygoat was first built as a Unity3D learning project. It was envisioned as a 3D-runner that used button controls instead of swipe gestures and gyroscope controls. Since development began, it's changed numerous times. In fact, the only thing that remains is the genre, the control scheme, and the name (which was originally just a codename!).

Skygoat was built by one programmer, from scratch, using only some Creative Commons or similarly licensed assets (music, fur textures, etc.).

The codebase is just as messy as you would expect from a first project in a new engine. For every Unity3D concept, you have three phases of use:

• Not used when it should be. (Early in development)
• Used when it shouldn't be. (Just learned about [concept])
• Used properly. (Got burned by an improperly used [concept])

The game isn't optimized beyond the basics (object pooling, some algorithm optimizations) so an older phone may have difficulties running it. The Nexus 4 used as a test platform gets 50fps on average. If you're playing it on a different phone, I'd love to hear about any bugs or slowdown!

Post-release analysis coming soon!

Contact:

• skygoatgame@gmail.com
• My Portfolio