G-Zero is a new take on the hovercraft racing game F-Zero developed as a solo project for a Games & Playable Media programming course. Its character controller features novel hovering physics, where raycasts are used to determine the distance to the ground to calculate a hovering force that gets stronger as the ground approaches, keeping the hovercraft airborne (sparks fly if it bottoms out after a jump). Although it was not necessary for this flat, F-Zero inspired racecourse, three raycasts are performed and a cross product is used to calculate the ground normal so that torque can be applied to make the craft's rotation follow the terrain. The result is a craft that also works on sculpted 3D terrain surfaces.
The project is available to view and download via this public Github repository. It uses Unity version 2019.3.0f6.
