AirTaxi

A flying taxi in a 70s city at sunset.

Power lanes on the walls of the buildings feed every car. That is why the whole city flies in one grid, and why you fly in it too.

Early prototype · PC · working title

A yellow 70s taxi with a checker stripe and glowing rings instead of wheels, hovering above flat city roofs in orange sunset light.

In motion

The taxi moves through the city at sunset, with cars in the grid above the streets.

Gameplay captured from the current build. No sound.

The full take

One take from the current build, 1:23, with game sound. No edits. Pick a moment below to jump there.

  1. In the cab, then outside: flying traffic
  2. Looking around the cab; an order goes to another driver
  3. New order
  4. In the flow, then rogue above it

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Three ways to move

Low over the road, in the grid by the walls, or free in the air on your own battery.

Surf

Just above the road

Flow

The 3×3 grid by the walls

Free flight

Out of the grid, on the battery

The grid

In the flow, lanes run next to the walls in a 3×3 grid: three lanes wide and three lanes high for each direction. Every car keeps its own distance, and at a red light the whole flow waits in the grid.

The hare is a quick jump to the side, out of the grid.

A street between brick blocks at sunset. Glowing yellow lanes run along the walls, the taxi waits with other cars at red lights.
Flying cars hang in rows above a street, the taxi below them near a red light, the sun low behind the buildings.

Outside the grid there is no power from the walls. You can still fly on the battery.

A 70s taxi, rebuilt to fly

The cab and the body come from a 70s taxi. Instead of wheels it has four magnetron rings in the wheel arches. The turn signals point up and down as well as left and right. Out of the grid you steer with the mouse.

The view up from the driver's seat: a ceiling panel with switches labelled MAG 1 to MAG 4, CRYO, GRID and XPDR, and traffic lights through the windshield.
The taxi hovering next to a brick wall with both side doors open, the seats visible inside. The dashboard: four round gauges labelled CHARGE, CRYO, ALT and TEMP, and a TAXI plate on the steering column.

A city that never stops

The city is busy: cars in the grid, buses and traffic below, all of it lit by a low sun.

The city from above in hazy sunset light: blocks of buildings, crossing streets and lanes of cars.
A long street between tall brick blocks, glowing lanes on the walls and a bus far down the road. The taxi above a roof between two busy streets packed with cars.

Early prototype

AirTaxi is a few days old. Right now it is a test of one thing: how it feels to fly in a grid with thousands of cars. There are no passengers and no fares yet. AirTaxi is a solo project.