The last two days I've gotten back to game development. In all there will be 14 levels in "HeliForce". Of those 14, 10 are currently completed. Or almost completed; I'll probably try to add some more contents to some of the levels to avoid the super-stiff sensation of rigid body simulation, but I won't spend days on artsy stuff. I'm no da Vinci. The missing levels are "take the boat to the big city", "the tunnel into the evening mountain", "the shooter beneath the huge cliff" and "the bouncing dinosaur/candy cane pillar/circus tent level". None of these should be rocket science, plus I'm expecting no more than one evening of programming to finish those off.
After that it's the menu (the usual: pause/resume, level picking, pilot name, high score, difficulty and so forth). I'll make it better than Kill Cutie this time around, but I won't waste any time there either. What else... I'll compose some good background imagery for the skybox. Then there's the ambient sound and music; music I'll rip from some free site I found, sound I'll try and find in Freesound.org. After that I should be done.
So perhaps 15 evenings, times two to get calendar days. So let's set the release date to
