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 guy on a sled. It’s cute.
Go to the link and play around for about a minute. Draw a line from top left to bottom right, then hit “Play.” Does it make sense?
Once it does, visit this link and prepare to be amazed. I shudder to think how much time all that took.
From the really odd department -- I've seen some posts around the blogosphere about people using blog comment threads as chat rooms. It happened to me once as well -- some kids in a high school somewhere were using the comments of the Line Rider post as a discussion board. Well,…
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…