Low Space Race

Low Space Race is anti-gravity racing for 1 to 4 players, split-screen against CPUs or each other. Barrel-roll into a rival's flank and watch them burn. Your energy is your shield and your boost, so every boost leaves you one hit from exploding. Wreck someone and their energy is yours. No items, no luck: just you, your friends and a lot of explosions.

WHAT DO YOU GET

1-4 players split-screen (also supports Steam Remote Play Together)

16 machines

12 tracks

Circuit: the Olympus, Helix and Chaos Cups.

Time Trial

Full controller support, Windows, macOS and Linux, 13 languages

SOMETHING EXTRA

Boost costs energy. So if you boost and use all your energy, you become vulnerable.

Draft to refuel. I borrow this mechanic from another game. If you tailgate other cars you recover energy.

Spin to attack. Another classic example of "do a barrel roll" but if you hit others it gives 5X damage.

Drift vs Slide. Instead of drift I added a mechanic of slide: basically when you press the Left Trigger you car starts sliding and keep momentum and you are free to rotate your machine without friction, once you release the slide button, your car changes direction immediately.

Rings refill your energy

EVERYTHING YOU SEE IS GENERATED BY CODE

This game has no "visible" assets! No 3D models, no textures, no UI images. The environment, the tracks, the cars, the engine sound, the UI, everything is procedural.

The capsules and trailer are rendered in-game.

WHY MAKING THIS GAME?

Low Space Race is an anti-gravity racing game named after its most unusual feature: the offline version of the game fits on a 3.5" floppy disk (the physical version is currently only sold in person).

In times like this where companies decide what you own, the floppy disk becomes a symbol of protest. You can actually burn a floppy disk with this game and will be yours forever (it would last longer than your SSD). If you still have a floppy driver, of course.

Share this idea with other devs, make your own floppy disk game, let's get ownership of games back.

Use the hashtag:

#bringfloppydisksback