Extreme GP is a first person motorbike racing game designed and developed by Plastic Martians after being commissioned by Digital Fibre for Sandisk. The game ties in with an online promotion that Sandisk were to run coinciding with the 2007 Manx TT.
The game pushes some of the boundaries of Flash gaming - it takes place in a first person perspective pseudo-3D world, something rarely achieved with "vanilla" Flash games before. Users take control of a motorbike and must guide it past various randomly generated obstacles to the finish line. The mechanics of the game are simple, but the presentation makes Extreme GP a compelling casual game experience in its own right.
Because of the promotional tie ins the game has to be playable at the same speed on any speed of computer, so great lengths were taken to ensure that it worked in the same way on slow or fast computers. Coupled with advanced statistic gathering and other security features that tied in with Digital Fibre's sophisticated server modules this enabled the online competition to be run in a secure and potentially un-hackable environment.
Have a go at: http://www.extreme-gp.com - you'll need to purchase a qualifying product, then register to play the game.
The game pushes some of the boundaries of Flash gaming - it takes place in a first person perspective pseudo-3D world, something rarely achieved with "vanilla" Flash games before. Users take control of a motorbike and must guide it past various randomly generated obstacles to the finish line. The mechanics of the game are simple, but the presentation makes Extreme GP a compelling casual game experience in its own right.
Because of the promotional tie ins the game has to be playable at the same speed on any speed of computer, so great lengths were taken to ensure that it worked in the same way on slow or fast computers. Coupled with advanced statistic gathering and other security features that tied in with Digital Fibre's sophisticated server modules this enabled the online competition to be run in a secure and potentially un-hackable environment.
Have a go at: http://www.extreme-gp.com - you'll need to purchase a qualifying product, then register to play the game.
