What's "Hover High"

It's a small open world hover racing game where you tune your ship and have many weapons to fight against hundreds of enemies

The final game will feature an online multiplayer and local splitscreen 300 enemies 42 races 24 weapons and 13 ships maybe even a map editor where you can make 2D top down maps and generate a race from it but that's really hard work and I have to see if I have the time for that

Update

V0.4 I added Coins you can collect in the open world, NPC's which you can drive over (they ragdoll), a minimap which shows your location and the racing sphere also I added some afterburner effects for the ships (Flame gets bigger/smaller and turn left or right if you press W,A,S or D)
WARNING I had to downscale the textures so the game would be under 1GB but the difference is almost not noticeable still I hope Itch.io will give me a bigger upload limit for V0.5

V.0.3 added a new map, new cheat system (animals), out of bounds killwall, new additions to the open world, you can now look around when you press a mouse button, new particle effect mouse pointer and general bug fixes and small improvements

Guide & Gameplay Tips

"Drift" is a skill of your ship I planned that you start with much drift and over upgrades your ship gets more stable but at this point it's reversed so if you upgrade drift your ship will control worse and worse... this will be fixed

The first race is the "OpenWorld" you can freely fly around and start a race in the "PlaySphere" which is located in the main city and has a pointer over it just go inside and press ESC to select a map

You earn money for every npc you overtake in a race or by collecting coins in the open world and if you get 1.2  or 3. placeyou get 1,2,3 medals which will unlock new levels in the future

There are at least 2 cheat codes one is "ANIMALS" try it ;)

Roadmap

I want to add more tracks (42), weapons (24) and some ships (13)

Local and online multiplayer is also planned and I want to make the open world to be like a hub world where you can chat and fly around with other players

I like the thought of a map editor where you can make your own tracks and share them

Your own music in the game would be nice too and I think its pretty easy to implement

Also the game should visualize the audio you know move and light up to the music, I have the scripts from an older project and only have to implement them I tried one time (I put the audio light on every enemy so ~200...) but this was not very performant so I had to remove it for now but I want to implement some kind of audio visualizer in the game

I want to release my game for Linux, Windows, Mac, Android, IOS where they will cost money but I also want to release homebrew versions of the game that runs on a PS Vita, Switch or PS4

Known Bugs

The "Drift" variable is reversed so DON'T UPGRADE DRIFT it will make your ship control like crap except you want to drift in that case go for it :)

About Me

I'm a small indie developer from Germany and make the whole project by myself so if you like my work and want to support it so it can become something bigger a donation is much appreciated :)
you can even wish for new features or the general direction of the game I am open for discussions and want to make a great game.

I worked countless hours on this game and will continue to do so in the future.

here are some pictures but they are most likely outdated...

This is the open world

that's the 2. race trackmain menu

the 3. map where you drive upside down in the open world
this is the open world but outdated I made some changes