Aerial_Knight’s Dropshot is a fast-paced, “free-fall-for-all” FPS about falling with style (Epic Games Store Blog)
The creator of Aerial_Knight’s We Never Yield is back with a fun, frenetic new shooter
(Published June 1, 2025)
If it feels like Aerial_Knight’s Dropshot, the latest game from Detroit-based game developer Neil Jones, fell out of the sky earlier this year, you’re not far off from the truth. To hear Jones himself tell it, the fast-paced, stylized FPS game about a sunglasses-wearing sharpshooter sniping adversaries in midair with a literal Finger Gun in a mad dash to secure a lone parachute came about in only a matter of weeks, literally, before going into full production.
“Last year, when we were wrapping up We Never Yield, me and my friend Daniel Wilkins were just going over ideas,” Jones told me. “Dropshot was one of the ideas he singled out that he thought sounded kind of cool. As soon as we came back in January, I told my team that we were going to make prototypes every two weeks, and this was just one of them.”
From there, Jones and his team sprinted to get a prototype of Dropshot ready in time for the 2025 Game Developers Conference in March. After a glowing reception from those who played the demo, Jones and co. knew that they’d hit onto something. “We took it to GDC, and everybody at GDC who played it loved it, and we just decided this is what we were going to spend the next couple of months on,” he said.
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