Line Rider
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Line Rider is a Flash game originally created in September, 2006 by Boštjan Čadež (also known as fšk), a Slovenian university student. Originally appearing on deviantART on September 23 2006, Line Rider quickly became an Internet phenomenon. In the week ending on 16 October 2006, it was the seventh-quickest gaining keyword in Google.
The basic concept is to draw one or more lines with the mouse on which a small man on a sled can ride after the player presses the "Play" button. The game includes simulated physics, which means the track must be sufficiently smooth to prevent the character from falling off the sled. The author has said that he prefers the description "toy" to "game", as there is no goal to accomplish. In spite of its simplicity, many complicated tracks have been created, which include loops and other stunts. Some tracks are even set to music and include hand-drawn scenery such as mountain slopes and trees. Tracks are typically shared among users by uploading a video to web sites, such as YouTube or Google Video.
Line Rider has been featured by several websites, such as Yahoo! and Time Magazine's website. Line Rider was also selected by staff and voted by users as the Best Webtoy of 2006 in the Jay is Games polls.
On December 20 2006, it was announced that InXile Entertainment gained console rights for the game, legally restricting copies and imitations of the game. On the official site it is stated that there will be Nintendo DS and Wii versions in Spring 2007 which will have new features.
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Line Rider Beta
The original version of Line Rider was released on September 1, 2006. Line Rider beta uses a very limited tool set. A pencil tool is used to draw lines, a left to right stroke forms floor lines, while a right to left stroke forms ceilings. It also includes a trash can icon to erase your current track. The beta includes the ability to save tracks and reload them later.
Line Rider Beta 2
InXile released a new version of Line Rider on December 19, 2006 and then a couple more bug fixes and the target were added on December 24, 2006.
Features
Pencils
- Regular Pencil: Used to draw lines as one would draw with a pencil. Lines drawn with this tool appear blue.
- Acceleration Pencil: Similar to the regular pencil but while the rider is on these segments he gains speed. Lines drawn with this tool appear black with red fin-shapes on the side opposite the one which Line Rider rides on. The red fins point in the direction in which the line accelerates, which can be changed by holding the Shift key while drawing them.
- Scenery Pencil: This tool is used like the regular and acceleration pencils, but the Line Rider character goes right through the lines created with the background pencil; not hitting them as he would with the other two pencils. Lines drawn with this tool appear green.
Lines
- Tools are provided to draw perfectly straight regular, acceleration and scenery lines.
Miscellaneous
- Lines can be erased by the eraser tool. If it is erasing lines drawn with a pencil it will delete sections at a time, but if used on only part of a line drawn with the straight line tools it will delete the entire line.
- Player can zoom in and out of their track with the magnifying glass.
- The tab button can be used to view the whole track all at once.
- Tracks can be be saved, loaded, or deleted.
During simulation
- Flag: Places a flag at the current point of simulation and will restart from that point the next time the Play button is pressed.
- Zoom In/Zoom Out: Press Z to zoom in the camera on the sledder and press X to zoom out.
- Slow Motion: Press M to put the sledder in slow-motion. Hit M again to get out of slow-motion mode.
