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stanchat
11-09-2006, 06:24 PM
I was at yahoo and they have a lot of buzz about this new game called linerider

The premise is simple you just draw lines and then this guy on a sled rides the lines. I have been trying to get on their site http://linerider.org but it seems busy.

This is the yahoo video: http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=c860df3ccf66c83fb61bb2ffd934330b.1127505&cache=1

This is the youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=linerider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBimaQSddWw


This looks cool.
soniCron
11-09-2006, 06:29 PM
Yes. I dare say it's the most popular game on the Internet right now. In fact, it was recently featured in some huge newspaper, like The New York Times, or something. Been making its rounds for sure, and I believe it all started on the guy's Deviant Art page as a programming "sketch."
Sirrus
11-09-2006, 08:15 PM
That looks fantastic...
soniCron
11-09-2006, 08:18 PM
I'm stupid and selfish and forgot to post the link to the original that still works (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40255643/). :o
jankoM
11-10-2006, 12:10 AM
hehe.... I had not idea about the buzz around line rider.. it was made by someone in my little country... do you have any link to that newspaper coniCron?
soniCron
11-10-2006, 12:22 AM
It was Time magazine (http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1548299,00.html).
Davaris
11-10-2006, 01:22 AM
I find the videos more entertaining than the game itself. Some people have way too much time on their hands! :)
barrygamer
11-10-2006, 01:32 AM
Yup, I played this after it appeared on jayisgames.com (http://jayisgames.com/archives/2006/09/line_rider.php) .
From a casual gameplay point of view I would note that success and failure are equally fun in this game :D
OMG, that 2nd youtube video is crazy!
Bad Sector
11-10-2006, 01:50 AM
I played it some time ago on devianart, very funny and very addictive :-).
jankoM
11-10-2006, 03:16 AM
uh... someone on slo forum posted link to this ... now this is amazing... more than a james bond + jackie chan movie combined

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SVMFCZgvNM

Now I get to understand what all the buzz is about
Christian
11-10-2006, 05:20 AM
I share the opinion of davaris... not fun at all for me.
princec
11-10-2006, 07:37 AM
Foolishly introduced the dev team to it the other week. Must have lost about 500 man hours to it :(

Cas :)
electronicStar
11-10-2006, 10:20 AM
Was on Yahoo main page yesterday.

Count me among the people who aren't attracted by this internet fad.
Matthew
11-10-2006, 10:42 AM
It's insanely popular. I posted about Line Rider (http://www.fun-motion.com/news/line-rider/) and some other physics toys on Fun-Motion a few weeks ago. I also followed up with another news post about a particularly impressive video. Neither post is ranking too well in the SERPs--maybe page 3 now, used to be page 2--but I've had 3,554 hits for line rider-related search terms in the last week.

Whoever had the smarts to make linerider.org as a huge community page should be seeing some decent traffic (maybe too decent, since it's currently down).
Sharpfish
11-10-2006, 10:54 AM
A curiosity, tired of it after two goes so another one who didn't get caught up in it but then I suppose you need to pass it amongst friends to get that "fun feeling", trying each others drawings out. On your own, it's nothing special.

It reminds me of DS games that Ive seen for some time now, where you draw paths for sprites to follow, land on etc ;)