Line Rider (Beta)

Posted by Derek Yu Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:21:00 GMT

Line Rider

The creator of Line Rider makes this declaration at the beginning of his game’s description:

“Its not a game, its a toy. What i mean is there is no goals to achive and there is no score.”

It’s an interesting distinction he’s making, but it’s not enough to prevent me from posting it on TIGSource. Which stands for The Independent Gaming Source, not The Independent Toy Source. That would be a different acronym…

You get what I’m saying here?

In any case, Line Rider is only beta and it’s pretty fun, if a bit unwieldy. Draw lines and have a little guy ride them. Ride them so dirty.

With a little imagination and determination, you could even come up with scenarios like this.

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  1. Ryan A said about 5 hours later:

    Haha Derek, great update, your humor never dissapoints. I was waiting for this game to be mentioned up here, I’ve been having quite a bit of fun with it. Cheers

  2. Sergio said about 6 hours later:

    LOL TITS

  3. BMcC said about 13 hours later:

    Hahaha, yes.

  4. Koach said about 16 hours later:

    Am I the only one whose Elastomania bells start ringing when watching this?

  5. chad said about 19 hours later:

    The distinction between game and toy is very interesting– especially when you start to employ your “imagination and determination”– in effect, playing a game with the toy. Which, really, is the fate of most toys, is it not? We establish rules and goals, conventions and “special moves”, whether we are playing with sticks in the backyard or mice at work when no one is looking. I don’t mean to make this sound negative towards games (versus toys)– though I do think that someone who plays with a toy as a toy alone is not only very rare but also probably a cat.

  6. jibbles said about 20 hours later:

    You could say that a set of GameDev tools is a toy.

    Maybe games are like toys where the crucial rules are preset. So, to the games-as-art argument, the selection of the rules is what gives a game its set of meanings / possible interpretations.

  7. Goose said about 22 hours later:

    I think this video is even more impressive: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6793030308731191664&q=line+rider

  8. Sergio said 1 day later:

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4823622638012216756&q=label%3Aline+rider I enjoyed this one most, probably…

  9. null said 14 days later:

    hello

  10. null said 14 days later:

    sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

  11. Genick said 14 days later:

    Anyone heard of the Line Flyer? My school blocks it, havnt tried it yet.

    I havn’t seen anyone screw around and send the guy flying by glitching him yet. :) Look for mine in the near future on VGoogle

  12. to said 22 days later:

    to

  13. look here lads said 24 days later:

    im gonna get my lineflyer video on googlevidoe look for it by summer

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