You know you want to…

Raven.za.net is a blog run by Vertigo Project and has been around for some time. We’ve done some work on it and have revived it updating it regularly with posts ranging from SEO and Wordpress tips to technology and gaming news.

Some of the popular posts include:

• How to fix The Last Remnant
  

  If you are one of the many wondering if there is/will be a patch for The Last Remnant then unfortunately it would appear there wont be - however, the NXE (New Xbox Experience) has patched it for us. The major problem with The Last Remnant is essentially lag - texture pop-ins, slow framerates, issues in battles etc.

• Fix scratched XBox game discs
  

  If you’ve ever had a game collection you know about disc scratching - especially for any Xbox owners who’s Xbox’s enjoy to scratch the disks themselves… its also a problem with multi-dvd Xbox games in poor packaging. Essentially if you’ve played enough games you’ve had scratches - and you could use a quick fix - ENTER BRASSO!

• Free email to SMS addresses
  

  Ever wanted to automate an application sms’ing you - or use your Outlook/Webmail to send an sms to something without a complicated SMS gateway? Wikihows How To Text Message Online included a great cheat-sheet of email addresses for various networks, which we’ve included below (naturally, replace “number” with the phone number

• Contempt Wordpress theme
  

  * Top bar showing random post and RSS feed details
  * Page Navigation bar
  * A different, appealing yet professional design
  * featured on WordPress.com!

Be sure to drop by and comment on some of the posts!

It’s been a while since I’ve made a post about something, and I hope to not dissapoint with this one.

Vertigo Project has just launched our first product - RedLine. It is a sideways scroller racing game with the objective being to get the most points before reaching level 10. It uses bits and pieces of the examples I have previously posted but all together is much more impressive.

The 10 levels increase in difficulty as your play through them - with the number of oncoming cars increasing, the amount of time you have to stay alive increasing and the need for petrol increasing.

The game is completely based on jQuery and gameQuery which means it’s nothing more than crafty javascript and basic graphics. We have tried to make it as competitive as possible and have included a score board as well as proof of how awesome (or not) you were in your attempt to beat the game.

We have also tried to keep the javascript as easy to follow as possible incase anyone is interested in looking at how everything comes together. We figured we might as well do it seeing as you could get the source quite easily.

Above anything else, it was a challenge for Dave and myself to see what we could do with the jQuery javascript library and the gameQuery plugin. We have a few ideas for our next project which will also be a javascript game. But you will hear more about that closer to the time.

Myself and Dave have opened the doors at Vertigo Project.

All projects that I will be a part of in the future will be branded under this new development group. You can expect some exciting things in the future and in the mean time you can see what we already do.