Crazy for Line Rider: We talked about Line Rider the other day. Now, David Pogue from the New York Times has written about what’s becoming a phenomenon.
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 or even with a camcorder filming the screen) and posting them on YouTube.
It looks easy. 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.
The lack of an eraser bugs me.
Line Rider: I'm seeing more and more Flash games these days that involve drawing stuff. You draw lines here and here to affect things on the screen. This is one of those games. You draw some lines, then hit "Play" and the lines become snow slopes for a little…
i'm pretty sure the way those are developed is by compulsive saving and reloading: save, draw a new line, try it out, reload until it works. like having a really tedious undo. still impressive, but not as impossible as doing it all in one shot...
Yeah, the use of save and reload is very important when making these videos. Once an eraser is created, it will almost take away the magic!
