The Racing Game
The Rift Run
Hover craft across a planet of your own: seven continents, a city on each, races in every land, and the whole world from orbit. Win The Rift Cup in three canyon worlds.
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- 7Continents
A city on each, and the whole planet to see from orbit.
- 3Canyon Worlds
Where The Rift Cup is raced, each a world of its own.
- 36Stars
Won race by race in The Rift Cup.
- 198Quests
In eleven groups, from the cities to The Rift Cup.
Every count here is read from the game itself.
The City Game
Semalona
A city by the sea, its blocks cut at every corner, alive with its people and eight kinds of vehicle on its streets. Walk into its shops, cafes, market and an arcade of six games.
Walk The CityNothing to install. Made for Chrome or Edge on a computer and Chrome on Android; other browsers may not run it yet.
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Ways To Play
Every way into The Rift Run, from its own title screen.
Drive The Planet
Seven continents, a city on each, and the whole world from orbit.
The Open World
The first hub and its twenty races, at alien gates from home to every land.
The Rift Cup
Thirty-six stars to win across three canyon worlds.
Today's Challenge
One race a day, the same for everyone that day.
Quick Race
Race any world, straight away.
The Hangar
Choose your ship and its paint.
The Dimensions
Each one is a real engine with real work running on it. The fourth is the one being built.
- 2D
AEON2D
The arcade engine and its asset library. Four of the games live on the arcade run on it: Deep Field, Emberhold, Nightside, The Long Fall.
- 3D
AEON3D
An in-house WebGL2 engine and the forge that proves it. Worlds are documents, and a document is what the renderer reads. Moon Base runs on it, live now.
- 4D
AEON4D
Time. A screenplay compiles to the document that renders the film. The Rift Run, Seasonwake and The Endless World run on it now, and it is still being built, this site with it.
Running On It Now
Nothing here is a mockup. Five arcade games are live and playable in a browser right now, every one of them on these engines.
- The Alien Life ArcadeDeep Field, Emberhold, Moon Base, Nightside, The Long Fall. Free, no install.
- Alien Life StudioThe animation studio: alien worlds and the films set inside them, every one made in house.
The Rift Run
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