Hello friends,

My name is Levi Gideon, and I’m creating a rollerblading game!

Announcing Mizu, an arcade-like rollerblading game that’s being built for Windows, Android and iOS.

Windows Early Access available today!

–Major features planned–

• Semi-realistic rollerblading controls and tricks
• Character customization
• Spins, grinds, grabs, toe rolls, wallrides
• Collection of skate spots inspired by real life
• Custom level builder
• Challenges and objectives
• Multiplayer

–What’s in the Early Access release?–

• Right now there are 9 grinds to choose from, 3 grabs, endless spins, and a sandbox oriented level where you can just skate to your hearts content
• Customization of skin color, shirt color and pants color
• Choose between a hat and a beanie

–What’s next?–

• Refining movement and tracking down any glaring bugs in how the character skates
• Refining grinds and grabs to ensure the hand and foot placement is correct
• On the technical side: Overhauling and reorganizing the project to be more prepared to have automated tests and mobile, and refactoring to use a stable engine version

–Why Early Access?– While we build out a polished game we’re going to need to experiment with some mechanics, fix a lot of bugs and gather a lot of feedback. Early access ensures we have some mechanisms in place to help us be transparent in the process and include the community!

Questions, comments, heckles? Join our discord channel: https://discord.gg/8gCNQmuG

–The creators– After many years of half-joking about making a game with my brother Zach I finally broke down and started building something on and off during summer 2021 and shared it with a couple friends. The concept ended up being pretty fun and I couldn’t keep it to myself, so we started brainstorming and gathering reference material. Zach has been pivotal in shooting reference photos, gathering audio, and is getting rolling helping to build out animations for the game.

The main developer is me, Levi Gideon. A software engineer by trade, lifelong rollerblader and uh.. kinesthetic creative if that means anything to you (I thrive in a frying pan).