We’re creeping up on the three year anniversary of Spunge Games looking for a batch of beta testers back in January 2017 for an upcoming game called Faily Skater (Free), a spinoff of their mega popular Faily Brakes game that starred an injury prone skateboarder. The game released the following July and has amassed more than 5 million players in that time. However, despite this popularity many Faily Skater players voiced their opinions on things they wished were different about the game, and Spunge tended to agree with a lot of it. The chief complaint was that Faily Skater missed the “core skateboarding game" feel and players were too scared to try and land cool tricks or combos for fear of bailing and ending their run. Plus there wasn’t really any incentive to try and do cool stuff in the first place since distance was the only metric that mattered. Thus it made the game just another endless runner with a skateboarding theme rather than something that felt like an actual skateboarding game.
Spunge is hoping to fix all this with a massive gameplay revamp to Faily Skater planned for release next year. First off many of the more minor obstacles in the game that would make for an instant crash can now be plowed right through, so yeah, go ahead and slam right into that pedestrian! There’s also a new combo system that encourages landing tricks in succession and building up a score multiplier, but perhaps more importantly combos will also fill ...