Line Rider™ Sells Out

Posted by BMcC Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:50:00 GMT

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Cult Flash hit Line Rider has been acquired by InXile Entertainment (The Bard’s Tale) to be published, with “new added features,” for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii videogame consoles, with an anticipated launch date of Spring 2007.

No, really!

Now, what does this mean for linerider.org? I don’t know. The new official Line Rider site is tagged up and down with InXile’s logo, displays their copyright on the bottom, and features an entire section dedicated to don’t screw with us legal jive. Though, in actuality, they probably don’t got the stones to shut down such a massive community. Particularly one they plan to milk dry.

I wonder just how much Mr. Cadež got for this deal. I hope InXile didn’t pull a Platypus.

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  1. BMcC said about 1 hour later:

    ::crosses fingers that the phrase “pull a Platypus” might catch on::

  2. NO! said about 2 hours later:

    I’ll pull your Platypus if you pull mine.

  3. crackers said about 4 hours later:

    You can pull mine but it’ll cost you.

  4. GloryFish said about 6 hours later:

    And with that, the phrase dies. ;)

  5. BMcC said about 6 hours later:

    Haha, pretty much.

  6. Sarofer said about 15 hours later:

    “new added features,”

    Wow, finally i can scratch my Nintendo DS to nirvana…

  7. zx said about 23 hours later:

    Line rider is highly overrated. I find it pretty boring and tedious. It’s just a neat gimmick, no real gameplay there.

  8. The Arsecast Host said about 23 hours later:

    Yeah, I’m with ZX. This smacks of the same sort of decision which got Elf Bowling released on the GBA and DS.

    Okay, it does suit the DS’s abilities and you could swap layouts with Wi-Fi but unless you build on some gameplay (similar to Kirby’s Magic Paintbrush I’d imagine) then it’ll suck balls.

  9. Kein said about 24 hours later:

    Its a nice little timewaster, but even with a bit of extra content, how much gameplay is there? Perhaps they plan on including some of their own games and make a package of games all in one as other wii titles go.

  10. Ryan A said 3 days later:

    I would have to agree. Yeah, the videos put up on youtube were fun…. for a while. But every time I tried to create something similar I’d close the window out of either frustration or boredom.

  11. Borne said 9 days later:

    I see no problem in “selling out”. This is the dream of (nearly) every game developer.

  12. The Arsecast Host said 10 days later:

    While I agree that it’d be ace to earn a living from your product, unless they can turn this slight distraction of a product into a truly stellar game then its just going to sully the name of Line Rider - and I’m not sure if I’d want to sell out if that was the end result.

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