To The Skies!
Clear Skies Interactive is a small UK-based independent studio formed by three people who met through Oxford’s indie games scene.
We came together because we share a love of games with strong identities, satisfying mechanics and a real sense of personality. Between us, we bring experience across development, art, design and player experience. To The Skies! is our first project to bring those strengths together around something we all genuinely want to make and play.
The Starter Fund gives us the opportunity to develop the game while growing Clear Skies Interactive alongside it. We want to use the programme to strengthen the prototype, better understand its audience and build our commercial foundations, giving us the skills and confidence to grow sustainably and take To The Skies! much further.
Key features
- High-speed hoverboard racing that combines track racing with free flight through the skies.
- Momentum-driven handling rewards mastery, experimentation and finding faster, more creative racing lines.
- Aerial tricks feed directly into speed: clean landings carry momentum and help chase faster times.
- Inspired by SSX Tricky, Wipeout and Jet Set Radio.
- Designed for PC and Steam Deck, for players who enjoy fast movement, racing, score-chasing and deep mechanical mastery.
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Learning about the Starter Fund made me think about what To The Skies! could become with the right team around it.
I brought together people I knew through Oxford’s indie games scene whose skills and creative instincts complemented my own, and Clear Skies Interactive grew from there.
The Starter Fund gives us the opportunity to see what we can build together, not just on this project but as a studio. It gives us the support to learn how to work effectively as a team, understand and grow our audience, develop the commercial side of the business and build the foundations for something sustainable. We want to come out of the programme with a stronger game, but also with a studio capable of making many more.
