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Apple’s iTunes store adds Line Rider

September 18th, 2008, 1:03 pm by

As expected, Line Rider is now available for iPhone and iPod touch users. It’s $2.99 and beware, it contains “mild cartoon violence.” Heh.

The simple line-drawing game was developed by Newport Beach’s inXile Entertainment, which bought the rights to the web-based game from a Slovenian art-school student. The game, available free online, became a hit among players who captured their best animated drawings for YouTube.

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A slicker version of the game was just released for the Nintendo DS and the PC. inXile is also producing a version for the Nintendo Wii, out next month.

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Line Rider 2 games on sale today

September 17th, 2008, 5:23 pm by

UnboundIt’s been almost two years since Newport Beach’s InXile Entertainment bought the rights to the simple line-drawing game Line Rider.

The web game has been gussied up, as previously reported, and renamed “Line Rider 2: Unbound.”

Today, the  Nintendo DS ($29.99) and PC ($19.99) versions were released to stores by publisher Genius Products. This new version is more of a story, featuring the bob-sledding Bosh, who must save his true love, the blond Bailey, from sled-stealing scumbag Chaz.

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The Nintendo Wii version will be available Oct. 6. A version for the iPhone is also in development.

The simple Line Rider game, which is free to play at linerider.com, continues to have a following two years after creator Bostjan Cadiz turned an art-school project into a web distraction. Since being sold to inXile, Line Rider has won gaming awards and shown up in a McDonald’s TV commercial.

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Line Rider coming to an iPhone near you

September 1st, 2008, 3:26 am by

Line Rider coming to an iPhone near you**Four photos of Line Rider on iPhone below **

Line Rider, the simple line-drawing game, is being turned into an iPhone game, according to Brian Fargo, chief executive officer of inXile Entertainment.

Developers at the Newport Beach game company, which owns the rights to Line Rider, are putting finishing touches on the game and still need to go through the Apple approval process. Fargo hopes that it’ll be available at the Apple Apps Store later this month.

The $2.95 iPhone Line Rider will look pretty much the same and play the same as what’s available at linerider.com for free. Fans have been enamored by the flash-based “game” where users draw on a screen and then hit ‘play’ to watch a bobsledder ride the lines until he crashes or comes to a smooth stop.

In the iPhone version, players use their finger to draw lines. Also new: Sharing creations online will be instant, unlike the current Web version that requires messing with separate software to capture the video and upload it to YouTube. The videos will be hosted by inXile, which was already getting its sharing system ready for the upcoming launch of Line Rider 2 for Nintendo’s Wii and DS and PC.

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But what is missing from the iPhone version is something Fargo told me was the whole reason he was attracted to the iPhone: the accelerometer.

“It’s the ‘A ha!’ factor, like when you first tried the Wii. The interface on the Wii is what really makes it so great. For the iPhone, you start picking it up and playing the games and it’s ‘A ha!’ That got me excited and when something gets me excited, my instinct is that others will get excited,” Fargo said. Read the rest of this entry »

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Line Rider 2 game ditches simple for slick

June 11th, 2008, 2:01 pm by

UnboundFor fans of the web-based sketch game Line Rider, the new version is much slicker than its creator may have intended. It’s also obviously coming out soon, based on the disc full of art, a slick new logo and a very cool demo movie. There is even the box art for the Nintendo Wii and DS versions of the game.

The game has won millions of fans, a few imitators and awards. Created by Bostjan Cadez as an art-school project, Line Rider is simple: Draw a few lines on the screen, press play and watch as a stick-figure “Bosh” rides the lines on his bobsled. The original game had no eraser — so whatever you only had one chance to get the lines perfect. The popular web game has attracted millions of players around the world and, most recently, a McDonald’s commercial.
Line Rider for Nintendo’s Wii

I interviewed Bostjan in December 2006. Game developer inXile Entertainment in Newport Beach had just bought the rights to turn the animation into a game and Bostjan was in town from native Slovenia for a few months.

At the time, he considered his invention “a toy,” but one that encouraged people to make a story out of it.

“The eraser is missing on purpose. It was part of the concept. I wanted it to be, in a way, like life. If you make a mistake, it’s there. You can’t just erase it,” he said.

The new versions of the game for the Wii and DS will be so much more when released this summer.

Details on how this game will work on the Wii weren’t provided. Will I use the controller as my pen? Will the new Wii balance board be used as a sled?

But there is information on the new challenges of the game. According to Line Rider’s media folks, a story has been added to the game:

“Line Rider 2: Unbound” follows the sled-stealing scumbag Chaz, who is up to no good and only you, as the clever and cunning Bosh, can defeat him. For Bosh to save his true love Bailey, players must complete tracks in over 40 mind-bending puzzles created by the #1 Line Rider player in the world, TechDawg.”

Everything is slick about the new Line Rider game — from its new logo to a heftier Bosh, joined by the two new characters Bailey and Chaz, pictured below:

Meet Bailey, the female sledder in ‘Line Rider 2: Unbound’ Meet Chazz, the mischievious-looking dude in “Line Rider 2: Unbound” The new and improved (?) Bostjan for ‘Line Rider 2: Unbound’

I kind of liked the simpler Bosh more:

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Check out the video:

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OC’s Line Rider game turned into McDonald’s commercials

June 5th, 2008, 3:00 am by

McDonalds adds Line Rider TV commercialsMcDonald’s has started airing two TV commercials starring Internet-hit sketch game, Line Rider, a product of inXile Entertainment in Newport Beach.

The campaign was created by Leo Burnett, the Chicago advertising agency. Apparently, someone over there “loves Line Rider,” said Brian Fargo, inXile’s founder.

If you have every played the flash-animated game, it’s very simple. Draw a few lines on a virtual sketch pad and click ‘play.’ Then this little guy on a sled starts cruising along the lines you drew. While simple, Line Rider isn’t easy. First timers will likely create a course where their sledder crashes and burns within seconds.

Line RiderSome fans have spent hours, weeks, possibly years, fine tuning their sketching so the sledder rides the lines perfectly, even coming to a standstill. In fact, thousands have recorded their game and posted it to YouTube, attracting millions of views. In late 2006, inXile bought the rights to the game from its creator, Bostjan Cadez, a Slovenian art student who created the game for a class project. The web distraction is being turned into a game for the Nintendo Wii and DS.

The commercial’s creators at Leo Burnett “probably spent two to four weeks” just creating the 10-second and 30-second spots in Line Rider, Fargo said. And it was created within Line Rider except for the end shot where the sledder jumps over the yellow McDonald’s logo — you can’t add color to Line Rider. Three commercials have so far been approved by Fargo and will air over the next three months, Fargo said.

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If you notice in the middle of the commercial, the Web address linerider.com, appears for about four seconds — that was part of the negotiations, Fargo told me. Since the commercial started airing last week, traffic to his site has doubled.

“I did not get money. I traded it (for the Web mention),” Fargo said. “But to be clear, when my web site traffic doubled, that’s my payoff. They’re not going to pay me a million dollars to use my character. I don’t even care about money. I just want the promotion and coverage and that’s why we’re able to get what we got.”

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Line Rider inspires site to launch free tools

May 7th, 2008, 2:48 pm by

Line Rider, the original BostjanOne of the Web’s favorite free distractions, Line Rider, has inspired a new company.

Newport Beach’s inXile Entertainment spun off a new company called SparkWorkz. Line Rider, the new Bostjan

Line Rider, which started in 2006 as an art-school project, is a web-based game where users draw lines and then watch a bob sledder ride the lines. It has since been played by thousands who then uploaded their creations to YouTube. The most popular Line Rider video has been viewed 7.4 million times.

InXile bought the rights to the game in late 2006 from creator Bostjan Cadez, who spent time in Newport Beach to meet the developers. Read the original Register story: If you draw it, Line Rider will come. Line Rider is now heading to the Nintendo Wii and DS this summer. The first preview of the game for the Wii and DS is expected to be posted at game site IGN.com Thursday night.

Online, anyone can play for free. The official site features a ‘Bostjan’ with a new look but the game is pretty much the same.

“Vanity is a big thing on the Internet. It’s either you show off, ‘Hey, look at me,’ on Facebook and MySpace. Or it’s look what I can do. That show-off aspect is what I like,” said Brian Fargo, inXile’s founder.

Line Rider was created by Bostjan Cadez Art student Bostjan Cadez started Line Rider by scribbling in his drawing pad More inspiration from Bostjan’s drawing pad More inspiration from Bostjan’s drawing pad
Above: See the inspiration of Line Rider from art student Bostjan Cadez’ drawing pad.

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