WRTL Newsletter #9 - May 2015

Some really cool stuff happened this month, amid a bunch of drama. Check out the cool stuff here

May 2015

Site News

• They Ride the Lines - A Reflection is an absolutely phenomenal compilation of line rider clips, created by @efrazable, with something powerful to say about the state of Line Rider today. If you haven't seen this, it is absolutely required viewing.
  
• The Line Rider Legends Forum Section is finally up! I am in the midst of writing bios for all of them, which may take a while, but as the threads go up feel free to comment on them! Also, feel free to nominate/discuss new LRL promotions via the sticky.
  
• New Featured Movies!
  Unusuals by @Chuggers
  High Notions 2 by @Kramwood
  Come to Daddy by @OTDE
  Inhibitions by @Dapianokid
  These are all excellent and none of them are anything like the others. Such variety! Go watch them!
  
• The Sunday Squirrel Broadcast livestream series have been cancelled indefinitely due to lack on interest. Sorry I may still do some broadcasts but not on a regular schedule.

Track Releases

• Inhibitions by @Dapianokid - A massive, highspeed, high-intensity, synced XY by dap
  
• Come to Daddy by @OTDE - A very enigmatic and disturbing video that involves a weird Line Rider track.
  
• Eden 3: The End of an Era by @Helios Pavonine - Unfinished, this is still a very impressive track by HP. Technical wizardry and mastery of movement combined with excellent music syncing and a wide variety of styles makes this a seriously impressive track even at less than a minute long.
  
• Live and Let Die by @Chuggers - Chuggers's self-proclaimed masterpiece that spawned a huge debate over whether it was a track or not, with dozens of cuts between old tracks and unreleased material, set to sync to music.
  
• Marmalade Scened by @Pawel3 - Pawel's enjoyable and fun "first attempt" at scenery. Very cool.
  
• Firework by @Chuggers - A short omnitrack by Chuggers featuring some really great highspeed quirk towards the end.
  
• Secrets and Lies by The WCC - The anonymous collab - find out who did what in this video!
  
• The Touch by @Wizzy - A pencil-only flatsled track made by Wizzy with a tablet. Strangely enjoyable.

Engaged Riding

• The Booty Breach Contest Results Video is up - congrats again to @gaoyubao, the contest-pulverizing machine, for the win, and thanks to @efrazable, the video editing machine, for editing! Stand by for a video for this month's contest's video, Bosh Olympics. No word on whether there will be a May Contest of the Month or not.
  
• Introducing the Decade Collab - help us figure out a project to do for the 10-year anniversary of Line Rider, in September 2016!
  
• The 200 Line Collab is in need of a video editor! It is done, and rabid will record it if someone else will agree to edit it. (The Experiment Collab is also nearing completion and will likely need a video editor soon)
  
• Congrats to @Chuggers for winning the Manuquirk Battle against @RyderLR and @theacp127!
  
• The 2nd Weird Track Contest is still going on, since there is no deadline and people are still working on entries.
  
• If you're looking for a low-key WCC collab, check out the Offsled Collab or the Old School Quirk Collab.
• If you're looking to do scenery, Phunky (the current Community Scenery Project) and the Forest Scenery Project, are sitting open much of the time these days - help us out!
  
• Blackheart continues to progress, with the alt/prog quirk done, modern quirk underway, and highspeed quirk coming up!

Version Development

• New features for 3.4.X this month - rewind, frame scrubbing, and optimized fast-forward! Woo!
  
• Possible news on a new build. Stay tuned.

Upcoming Stuff!

• Clarifaction Scened will be released as soon as I get around to recording and editing. (Probably after Driftwood is released)
  
• SCG is still making a massive omnitrack, and now there's a preview for it
  
• Driftwood itself should come out in a matter of days.
  
• efrazable, dap, sheldon, and kevans are ALL making flatsled tracks
  
• iPi is still making a cool thing
  
• OTDE is drawing scenery
  
• Pawel is making a thing
  
• theacp127 is making a thing
  
• boo is making a crazy thing
  
• Chuggers is always making stuff
  
• Shotoku (now Fauxfyre) is making stuff
  
• shua is making a thing
  
• Dap is making a thing
  
• Xanth is making a thing
  
• Urasmurf is making a thing
  
• If you have something you want to add to this list in next month’s newsletter, PM me!

Awards this month (these will continue to be updated throughout the month)

• Featured Video: Roses & Violets - @LineRiderGjert

I didn't even notice the variety of tracks featured during the month, it's pretty cool to see how everybody is doing their own thing

Chuggers wrote:I didn't even notice the variety of tracks featured during the month, it's pretty cool to see how everybody is doing their own thing

IF IT'S GOOD TO YA

IT'S GOOD FO YA

rabid squirrel wrote: No word on whether there will be a May Contest of the Month or not.

i'm not a huge fan of hosting back-to-back contests, but I have a pretty good (scenery related) concept for a contest in June.

But if anyone wants to host May, it's not too late! Here's a thread of booty ideas:
https://iridethelines.forumotion.com/t10880-cotm-26-march-2015-which-booty-do-you-prefer

Also it's so cool to look back at the month to see all that was going on, so I'm glad rabid does these. May I suggest a link in each month to the previous month, cause every time I look at the latest recap, I'm prompted to look at the previous month or so.

efrazable wrote:May I suggest a link in each month to the previous month, cause every time I look at the latest recap, I'm prompted to look at the previous month or so.

good idea, I'll start doing this next month

OTDE wrote:

Chuggers wrote:I didn't even notice the variety of tracks featured during the month, it's pretty cool to see how everybody is doing their own thing

IF IT'S GOOD TO YA

IT'S GOOD FO YA

STICKS
AND
STONES MAY
BREAK
YO
BO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-OO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O_______

Chuggers wrote:

OTDE wrote:

Chuggers wrote:I didn't even notice the variety of tracks featured during the month, it's pretty cool to see how everybody is doing their own thing

IF IT'S GOOD TO YA

IT'S GOOD FO YA

STICKS
AND
STONES MAY
BREAK
YO
BO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-OO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O_______

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