Some people have strolled across the line while looking twitchy… like they had terets or didnt get enough ridilin last Quanza. Well, there is a fine line between playing this game and sucking at this game. There’s a downloadable, standalone version here, and there are spinoff versions, apparently all by the same guy, called LineFlyer (motorcycle), Jeep Flyer (Jeep), and Line Boarder (snowboard).īut none of them quite match the quirky, funny strangeness-and timekilling potential-of the original, not-quite-finished Line Rider. One of the most famous, thanks to its ski-village motif.Ī spectacular underwater theme, with an amazing finish.Īnyone up for caving? Tragic ending, though.
The difficulty of creating a great course using today’s crude tools makes you even more amazed at the genius of theīest Line Rider artists’ work.
Still, I’m almost sorry to hear that a new version is in the works with an eraser tool. But it’s actually darned difficult, especially because there’s no eraser tool, and lines you draw from the left and from the right behave differently. It’s spawned an entire mini-subculture of Line Rider nuts, who spend hours drawing elaborate fantasyscapes for their little sledder guys, and then capturing the results (either with a screen-capture program orĮven with a camcorder filming the screen) and posting them on YouTube. Cross them in just the right way, and the simulation goes nuts and spits him Make them too shallow, and he runs out of momentum and stops. Make your lines too steep, and he wipes out. When you click Play, a tiny, weird, funny little guy on a sled gets dropped onto the uppermost line you drew-and You draw lines-hills, ramps, valleys-with a pencil tool. Every now and then, the Web provides a showcase for talent in corners where you never would have expected to find it.Ĭonsider, for example, the amazingly simple, but overwhelmingly addictive Flash-based game/simulation/physics experiment known as Line Rider.
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