Line Rider - Today's Time Waster

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Line Rider - Today's Time Waster

by Jordan Running Sep 26th 2006

Today's Time Waster isn't a game, per se, but it's a lot of fun. Line Rider is more of a physics toy. You start out with a blank white space and a line tool, and are encouraged to draw a diagonal line from the top left to the bottom right. What you're really doing is drawing a hill for a little scarfed figure to toboggan down. The physics seem reasonably accurate for a Flash game. You can send your little sledder careening off of jumps, but if the course is too rough he'll be thrown from his sled. Like I said, Line Rider isn't a game--there's no score, time limit, or any goal, but as a plaything it succeeds, allowing you to test your hill-engineering mettle with majestic jumps, or feed your sadistic side with sheer cliffs and unforgiving drops. There aren't a lot of options--just draw, clear, go, and stop (an eraser tool is sorely missed), but Line Rider does have a save option that lets you set aside your favorite lines for later.

[Via Waxy.org]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Ander said 11:52AM on 9-27-2006

Awesome little time waster. Very addictive!!!

cuby said 12:54PM on 9-27-2006

wow, what a nice find -- this is extremely extertaining and very cute! thanks!

royb0t said 5:09PM on 9-27-2006

So addictive. Great way to avoid doing productive work. And what's worse is all the addicts who have uploaded INSANE line rider videos to youtube.

mazmorro said 8:18AM on 10-02-2006

It need a tool that allows you to clean a specific area. If you click "trush" you'll clean the whole circuit. But, it is a very very good Game.

It also lacks of the possibility of create a looping.

VERY VERY NICE & ADIECTIVE !!!

Alex said 11:32PM on 10-28-2006

Mac version?

Richard said 1:52PM on 11-24-2006

you CAN do loops.. make a jump, then start the loop after he jumps, make the down part of the loop go thru the gap. works great.

Alex said 1:30AM on 11-27-2006

how do i down load it, i love it and i want to be able to play offline and off my desktop.

brad said 5:45AM on 12-11-2006

how the hell can i download this game cause i don't always have the Internet so i cant play it most of the time

barry said 10:12AM on 12-21-2006

http://www.download.com/Line-Rider-Desktop-Edition/3000-2099_4-10590023.html

good luck!

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