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I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track

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Re: I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track

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Post by qvq »

delu wrote: post #20

Hi everyone, I made this! I already told my whole story in this article (if you'd rather watch a video essay about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CikpAHiPlmQ ) so not much more to add other than I'm still (slowly) working on Line Rider! If you have any questions here I am

Hi Conundrumer! I was part of the Line Rider community in the early days making manual tracks under the name Holcomb227. Your dedication is really impressive. It seemed like the community had many perfectionists and/or artists and I wonder what they're doing now.

Re: I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track

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Post by irjustin »

delu wrote: post #20

Hi everyone, I made this! I already told my whole story in this article (if you'd rather watch a video essay about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CikpAHiPlmQ ) so not much more to add other than I'm still (slowly) working on Line Rider! If you have any questions here I am

Omg that was absolutely nuts. I was relatively impressed all the way through and then the polygonal visuals flew by and that just blew me away.

Amazing amazing work!

Re: I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track

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Post by tacitusarc »

SulfurHexaFluri wrote: post #40
scanny wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

« Should have done something more productive » Why?

The capitalism machine demands that your free time be used for something monetizable. Since this project has no commercial value it must be worthless.

You can't monetize the video?

Re: I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track

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Post by lelandbatey »

raldi wrote: post #30

I was confused about why some of the black lines are solid and some, the guy just passes through. So I read a bunch of Line Rider tutorials, but they said the only possible colors for lines are red, blue, and green, and now I'm even more confused.

The red, green, and blue lines are those colors when editing, so you know what type they are. When you hit "play" and are viewing the rider ride the lines, all lines are black.

Re: I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track

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Post by SulfurHexaFluri »

viraptor wrote: post #45
raldi wrote: post #30

I was confused about why some of the black lines are solid and some, the guy just passes through. So I read a bunch of Line Rider tutorials, but they said the only possible colors for lines are red, blue, and green, and now I'm even more confused.

Line rider is full of bugs. Very fun and useful bugs. Going fast enough or at the right angle or nearby something or ... will let you clip through things, accelerate uphill, spin instead of moving, etc. LR is basically a sandbox of broken physics.

The most important part is its reproducible so you can keep making micro adjustments so you perfectly exploit those issues.

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Post by adrianN »

vmception wrote: post #39
OliverGilan wrote: post #13

I think the ability for humans to build seemingly straight-forward and simple tools or building blocks that other humans then go on to create insanely complex things like this with is what sets us apart from every other species in existence.

When Octopus realize they don't have to starve themselves to death when they are 3 years old that will be the end of our reign.

You can actually prevent them from starving themselves by destroying a small part in their brain.

Re: I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track

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Post by vmception »

adrianN wrote: post #57
vmception wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When Octopus realize they don't have to starve themselves to death when they are 3 years old that will be the end of our reign.

You can actually prevent them from starving themselves by destroying a small part in their brain.

Strange! Anywhere I can read more about that? And ideally the study about how they figured that out!

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Post by codetrotter »

delu wrote: post #20

Hi everyone, I made this! I already told my whole story in this article (if you'd rather watch a video essay about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CikpAHiPlmQ ) so not much more to add other than I'm still (slowly) working on Line Rider! If you have any questions here I am

That is the craziest line rider track I have ever seen. Really good work, kudos!

Re: I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track

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Post by MivLives »

delu wrote: post #20

Hi everyone, I made this! I already told my whole story in this article (if you'd rather watch a video essay about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CikpAHiPlmQ ) so not much more to add other than I'm still (slowly) working on Line Rider! If you have any questions here I am

I loved your RATIONALIZATION piece linked to in the article.
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