First up: HoverRace works fine on Wine/Linux, thankyou for the archive.org link. Framerate is not great, even with the 'main loop sleep' set to 0, but is this how the game was designed in the first place?

Your map: really fun and interesting. All of of the different types of pathway & terrain are genuinely much more interesting than most racing games I have ever played, including more more "fancy" ones with realistic graphics. I was engaged with this map, which is a strange thing for me to say about a racer.

I can never make the catwalk :)

"Escaping" the map into the open water is a really refreshing feeling. Very few games have given me this before (The Talos principle road to Gehenna comes to mind, possibly some others), most games that start claustrophobic stay claustrophobic. It's clear that HoverRace is an "indoor engine", so giving the player a feeling of escape and fresh air is impressive map design. It makes me wish I could just hover on forever and discover some secret pirate treasure island off in the distance. How I wish many games would dispense with their invisible walls.

Upon looking at the minimap some time later: oh my god this map is chaos! No wonder it felt so interesting.

Thankyou Danni.