RedLine FB Online

RedLine is now available on Facebook. Head over to http://apps.facebook.com/redline_racing/ to add the application and try to beat our scores

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Kind Words on RedLine

AJAX Magazine (of phpmagazine.net) was kind enough to have a look at our RedLine Javascript release and had this to say –

Vertigo-projects have a new and amazing racing game powered by jQuery and using the GameQuery plugin. The game itself is about one thousand lines of code, but you will need some practice to not shift too early or to avoid crashing. It’s interesting to see the level of applications that we can build today using modern javascript libraries such as jQuery. The design is pretty attractive to run a level or two, have a look and enjoy the race http://www.vertigo-project.com/projects/redline-game.

You can read the article here.

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RedLine + Facebook

Image via Wikipedia

The RedLine Racing Game is busy making a transition to being on Facebook as well! We’ve always wanted to develop something big for facebook (not this) but never got stuck into the API; so we’ll be working on our next project soon after this!

We will keep you posted once it goes live (this week), in the meantime you can enjoy it here on the site!

RedLine Game Out!

We have at long last released beta 1 of the RedLine jQuery racing game. Making use of gameQuery, jQuery and a lot of custom code and images its a side scrolling race game made without any use of flash at all!

Please feel free to play it, leave suggestions, report bugs and show us your top scores!

Please note, the game was designed using Firefox and runs best with the fastest javascript engine you have available. Firefox 3.1 offers the best performance we have seen.

Play the RedLine Racing Game

Making Progress

We’ve been making solid progress on the first of the RedLine javascript (jQuery) games, and I’ve included some updated screenshots below. The game is essentially working 100% now and comprises of the following basic strategy:

• You race along a track for a given number of seconds, trying to avoid crashing with enemies.
• You can pickup items, or hit dirt or speeds to change the movement speed.
• Score is calculated by the speed at which you react to gear changes, the speed you traveled at, the dirt you missed, etc etc.
• There are 10 levels, which have increased speed; enemies; petrol requirements and more.

Right now the only trick is finding a way to verify that the javascript game has submitted the score, and not a nefarious user…

RedLine Public Demo 1

We’ve been toiling away with sound fixes for gameQuery, problems with slow javascript implementations and more, but are getting close to releasing the first public demo for one of the racing games in RedLine. Its a side scrolling racer, where you have to dodge enemies, collect petrol and miss the dirts/hit the speedups to get a high score – arcade classic style.

There’s still much to be done, but we will be posting it and the source code here on Vertigo Project once its ready!

gameQuery

Something we’ve been playing around with for RedLine is gameQuery, a jQuery plugin for javascript game development.

gameQuery is a jQuery plug-in to help make javascript games easier to develop by adding some simple mechanism and commodity. It’s still in a very early stage of development may change a lot in the version to come. The project has now also a Google Code page where the svn repository of the project will soon be hosted.

We’ll hopefully have a demo or two up with some of the stuff you can do with it soon, but in the meantime feel free to check out the site if you enjoy the odd bit of javascript madness.

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More RedLine Tech

As you might have read Daz put up a feature presentation of using jQuery to do animation (e.g. a racing game) in a previous post. While RedLine’s still have a long way to go, there is another preview using parallax for a 3d background effect.

Have a look at the howto on his blog, or a quick look below (hold your right arrow)

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jQuery Racing Game?

Work has begun on playing around with JavaScript to write some racing games for Red Line – and Darryl has posted a code test on his blog where you can see some of the things that can be done with jQuery.

Check it out below by clicking in the image and then pressing the up arrow, or go straight to his site.

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Red Line Screens

Here are the very first screenshots for Red Line – a racing game we’ve been working on for some time. As you can see, its still very beta but you can get a feel for some of the features, and the look of the site.