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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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Wow, very cool! Off topic, but it made me flash on something I spent many, many hours on probably 20 years ago, that I can't quite recollect. Does anyone remember the flash experience where you created little creatures out of lines and springs and they kind of hobbled around? I believe "soda" was in the name. That thing really got me into computers and the web!

Soda Constructor! It's another one of those niche physics things I want to remake and expand upon

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

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I quite like DoodleChaos' work on Line Rider. It's less of a visual masterpiece and more of an audio one. Line Rider in general just puts a smile on my face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmLh6UvLo14

I collaborated on that project! I implemented the remounting feature and tuned it to be suitable for making this track

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

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> did the community meme about OII never being finished ever get to you? I've always found it really funny and played along with it! > What kept you going on this It was mostly my conviction about the creative potential of Line Rider but it helped a lot that the community remained alive and people understood the significance of this track

Chinese Democracy, Duke Nukem Forever... And now Omniverse II. I think as soon as Star Citizen is released, we can call this one a wrap and move on to the next universe.

Except Omniverse II isn’t a massive disappointment

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

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Holy. Crap. That is mind-boggling. I remember back in 2006 I thought I had taken things too far when I wasted many, many hours of my life figuring out the Line Rider file format: https://www.mrspeaker.net/2006/11/15/line-rider-file-format/ But this is about 10 levels beyond that! Only now do I see I didn't take things far enough by half - this is beautiful and... complete. Just amazing!

You are a mad lad. That was impressive work. And now I have experienced your blog. Thank you.

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

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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

Maybe the best art experience I've had this year; amazing!

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

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> did the community meme about OII never being finished ever get to you? I've always found it really funny and played along with it! > What kept you going on this It was mostly my conviction about the creative potential of Line Rider but it helped a lot that the community remained alive and people understood the significance of this track

Chinese Democracy, Duke Nukem Forever... And now Omniverse II. I think as soon as Star Citizen is released, we can call this one a wrap and move on to the next universe.

Don't forget Half Life 3.

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

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Is this track also available as a download somewhere to try it in linerider.com itself, rather than as a video? Never heard of the game before, but now I want to try it with this track

Here it is: https://www.linerider.com/?layers&track=https://www.dropbox.... It's a big track so might take a while to load. The ending animation doesn't work properly at the moment

It loaded for me in under 5 seconds or something and runs great; impressive performance.

Edit: I'm new to linerider but is it super common to have the tracks set to music? Could be cool to have some basic ability to have a music track in app.

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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.

From Wikipedia: > Octopus lifespan is limited by reproduction: males can live for only a few months after mating, and females die shortly after their eggs hatch. ... Octopus reproductive organs mature due to the hormonal influence of the optic gland but result in the inactivation of their digestive glands, typically causing the octopus to die from starvation. Experimental removal of both optic glands after spawning w…

That's an unfortunate evolutionary rut to be stuck in.
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