Commissioned work: Gbanga developed «EBL On Tour» on commission for the energy utility EBL — a browser racing game for an energy utility. Like every commissioned project from our Zurich game studio, «EBL On Tour» was built in a short, focused development cycle and delivered on a strictly controlled, fixed budget. Looking to commission browser racing game development for your organisation? We build custom games fast and on budget — request a fixed-price quote.
“The mobile browser platform was surprisingly performant.”
— Matthias, Gbanga
EBL on tour is a campaign by Liestal, Swiss-based energy and telecommunication cooperative EBL Elektra Baselland. The game is provided for free directly within the website on www.ebl-on-tour.ch.
Realisation
The game in 8-bit pixel aesthetics is compatible latest browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and Safari, on notebooks, desktops, smartphones and tablets. Players navigate a minibus to the beach. On the way there, obstacles try to slow the player down. However, with the help of high-speed power-ups such as street bumps, surfboards and rainbows, players can jump into the air, accelerate and double the pickup scores.
Gbanga developed the HTML5 game as part of the EBL On Tour campaign. The project lead, visual concept, the 8-bit pixel design and sound composition was done by creative ad agency eyeloveyou GmbH, Basel.
Quick Facts
- Action game for all browsers
- Mobile race game
- Retro 8-bit art style
- Product placement of company logo and campaign elements
Technology used
- HTML5 (Canvas, Javascript, CSS, jQuery)
- Gbanga leaderboard server (LAMP)
- Sublime Text
- Fetch
- Jake Gordon‘s example project
- pupunzi/jquery.mb.audio
- YUI Compressor
- Google closure
Play it here
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