RunninRiiz

RunninRiiz is the team that coded and produced SuperSkye. It consists of a number of friends who joined together to create games.

History
RunninRiiz was begun in late 2000 by founder and team leader Reese Davidson, a college sophomore. When it first started, the team was simply composed of Davidson, his best friend Paul Lonagan (the team's graphic artist), and coder Patrick Beaman (who assisted Davidson with most coding).

The team worked together during their free time to produce a platformer game which they called "Tiny Samurai", starring a young samurai named Bolo on a quest to rescue his sister, Neko, from an organization of shady ninjas. The game was completed, but it was never distributed; it was intended only as a fun project and was never meant to be published.

RunninRiiz expanded during 2001, long after the completion of Tiny Samurai. Stephen Cartwright joined to assist with coding, and Lonagan's then-girlfriend Cora Bjorn agreed to assist with female voice acting and several other fields. Beaman left the group toward the beginning of SuperSkye, leaving Cartwright to overtake his position as main coder.

SuperSkye was begun in late 2001 and scrapped a bit more than a year later, and RunninRiiz agreed to disband. However, in more recent times, there have been rumors of a reunion of the team to finally finish the ill-fated SuperSkye. This is highly unlikely, however; the game would be quite outdated among the games of today, and its fanbase has since grown so small that the team does not believe many people would even still be interested.

Naming
The name RunninRiiz has been confirmed by Paul Lonagan to have come from a personal joke between him and Reese Davidson. Lonagan is said to have created an animated GIF that consisted of a sprite of Reese running on a treadmill. He then created a temporary website by the name "runningreese.com" that featured said GIF tiled across the page, continually looping its animation while a sped- up, nightcore-like techno song played in the background. Lonagan proceeded to change Davidson's homepage to the website while he was away, as a prank.

The name "RunninRiiz" did not come along until after the completion of Tiny Samurai. The team, in acknowledgement to the prank, originally bore the name "RunningReese", but it was later changed to "RunninRiiz". Davidson himself would also start using this as his online username.

The website that Lonagan created has since been removed, and no longer exists.

Members
Reese Davidson, RunninRiiz's founder, leader, and chief supervisor. Also known as the face of RunninRiiz.

Paul Lonagan, the main graphics artist.

Stephen Cartwright, the head coder.

Cora Bjorn, who helped with coding, graphics, and voice recording. Also said to have come up with many characters from SuperSkye, including Mandy, Lucia, and Holly.

Allusions and Appearances
In several instances in SuperSkye where other people who play against you in certain games appear, their names are Cora and Stephen.