Coinciding with the “The Art of FLIGHT” movie premiere on September 7 2011, we launched a new online game for Red Bull:

The Art of FLIGHT game powers you to enjoy an adrenalin-fuelled ride, based on snowboarder Travis Rice’s experience of riding several of the most extreme terrains across some of the most remote places on Earth.

Featuring three un-lockable levels with breathtaking landscapes set across the USA, Alaska and Patagonia, Argentina. The Art of FLIGHT game challenges you to use your dexterity and reaction speed to test your online snowboarding skills. Navigating across tricky terrains and performing neat tricks with a delicate balance of speed and accuracy, you too can grab a piece of the movie’s action.

Right now, top scores can win one of 5 custom Lib Tech Art Of FLIGHT snowboards. More info on the competition here - and more prizes to come soon!

Now with added hoops! The Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab just got a new game mode. Steer your self-made plane through a series of hoops at increasing speeds, and see how far you can get. Classic mode is still available, if free-flight experimentation is your thing.

Previously:
Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab
Developing Flight Lab

Read the review here.

We are looking for a versatile Flash developer for full-time employment in our Berlin office with a solid background in object oriented web development and experience in AS3. We are seeking a motivated and confident problem solver with an eye for interaction design and a passion for web technologies.

You will be working in an international team of experienced developers in Berlin and London. Your role involves working closely with our front-end designers and the developer team to implement projects ranging from mini-sites and virals to large scale consumer & corporate websites. You will be working on projects such as:

• www.redbullsoapboxracer.com
• www.redbullflightlab.com
• www.haunchofvenison.com
• www.uliheckmann.com

Requirements

• 2+ years experience in Flash development
• Solid AS3 Skills (OOP)
• Experience with Flash integration technologies (Dynamic content, XML, Webservices)
• Bandwidth and performance-friendly coding
• A feel for good interaction design and usability.
• Experience in related technologies and APIs is an advantage (i.e. 3D- and Physics Engines, Facebook API, Java, Ruby on Rails, PHP)
• English speakers are welcome

Salary is negotiable dependant on experience.

We’re looking forward to your informative application via e-mail, including a CV and links to recent projects you developed.

Please send your application to bewerbung@lessrain.com

This year Less Rain is the only German agency to win a coveted Webby Award, aka "The Internet Oscar". Nominated from almost 10.000 entries, our Red Bull Soapbox Racer won the People's Voice Award in the Game or Application category. Thanks again to everyone who voted!

Andreas Lutz wins the only other Webby going to Germany, in the Student category for his portfolio "Because clicking is so 90s!". Congratulations!

Following the nominations at the Webbys, FITC and The One Show, the Red Bull Soapbox Racer is now also nominated at the Clios 2010 in the category Beverages / Non-Alcoholic. We are pitted against the Coca Cola Happiness Machine by Definition 6, a nice example of a viral video done right:

Following the recent nominations we are now competing for a Webby as well, in the coveted category Interactive Advertising / Game or Application. And again, we need you! Please vote for the Red Bull Soapbox Racer at the People's Voice Award for a chance to win a Good Deed of the Day-Medal.

Update: Soapbox Racer wins the People's Voice Award. Thank you, people!

Less Rain is looking for a versatile Flash developer for full-time employment in our Berlin office with a solid background in object oriented web development and in-depth experience in AS3. We are seeking a motivated and confident problem solver with an eye for interaction design and a passion for web technologies.

You will be working in an international team of experienced developers in Berlin. Your role involves working closely with our front-end designers and the developer team to implement projects ranging from mini-sites to large scale consumer & corporate websites. You will be working on projects such as:

• http://www.redbullsoapboxracer.com/
• http://www.alfaromeogiulietta.co.uk/
• http://www.passage-experience.com/
• http://www.redbullflightlab.com/

Requirements

• 3+ years experience in Flash development and solid Actionscript 3 skills
• A feel for good interaction design and usability
• Experience in working with frameworks such as PureMVC or Flex
• Experience with Flash integration technologies (XML, Remoting, Webservices)
• Experience in related technologies and APIs is an advantage (i.e. Papervision 3D, Facebook API…)
• English speakers are welcome!

Please send your CV and portfolio to Thomas Meyer.
We can only accept applications via e-mail.

For further information about Less Rain visit:
http://www.lessrain.com
http://blog.lessrain.com
 

Julius Wiedemann and Rob Ford from the FWA teamed up for TASCHEN Verlag to present you with "sixty success stories from clients' briefings to final projects" - and two of them are ours. Both our Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab and Vandalsquad feature as examples for a successful investment online.

You can flip through the entire book here, or read more at the TASCHEN website. The Internet Case Study Book is out in April 2010.

While developing an AIR project one of the most annoying problems we are having is the impossibility to intercept when a runtime exception is triggered in the installed AIR application.

After Googling a bit we found a couple of interesting solutions provided by Xavi Beumala in his blog:

Debugging production ready AIR applications

The Problem:

In Firefox 3.6 for Windows if you embed a Flash Movie with the wmode parameter in the object tag set as default (wmode=”window”) the mouse wheel event is not propagated correctly, instead it is captured automatically by the Flash movie making the scroll wheel not working properly.

Common Example (youtube video):

If you hover the mouse cursor over the embedded video, the mouse wheel doesn’t scroll any more, instead if you leave the embedded video area the mouse wheel scrolls correctly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySEQMOPXccE

The Solution:

The only solution I have found so far is setting the wmode parameter in the object tag to “opaque” or “transparent” so the mouse wheel event is propagated correctly, but this solution is far away from ideal.

FireFox 3.6 draws one-pixel border aorund embedded SWF (also occurs with Java Applets) where the width and height is set to 100%, causing pointless scrollbars to appear.

It seems to be a side effect of fixed usability problem which makes old bugs to appear.

Solution 1:

In about:config:

Set browser.display.focusringonanything to true and set browser.display.focusring_width to 0

Solution 2:

Paste this in your css/stylesheet:

a:focus, object:focus { outline: none; -moz-outline-style: none; }

Thanks Thomas for the info.

See more at support.mozilla.com forum (FireFox 3.6 draws a one-pixel border…)