WRTL Newsletter #12 - August 2015

• We have a new moderator! It feels weird to announce him because he's already been super active and awesome and everywhere, but he was promoted in July. Congrats to @OTDE, the newest edition to our staff team!
  
• We had a new featured movie in July, Marble Soda by @shua - congrats to shua for his first feature! There are also some more on the way shortly.
  
• We have a new Line Rider Legend. Congrats to @Sheldon for being the newest member to achieve that honor!
  
• If you haven't seen something edited by OTDE lately, you have been living under a rock. That man is editing the majority of the videos on this site these days. Go request something here.
  
• Speaking of which, OTDE is putting together a massive collection of unreleased unfinished tracks, Heta 2 It will feature unreleased material from Snooze, HG42, and many many others, and anyone can send OTDE tracks to throw in!
  
• With deep sadness, I need to tell anyone who doesn't already know that longtime IRTL/WRTL member and trackmaker .boo/@LineMagiX passed away on August 2 at the age of 18. Read more here

• Marble Soda by @shua - A massive, music synced, two and a half minute track with some lovely highspeed animation by shua.
  
• Funk by @OTDE - An alt/progressive quirk with lots of variety and unpredicatbility by OTDE
  
• Clarifaction Scened by WRTL CSP - Another huge release from the CSP, the first CSP project that was ever started 5 years ago.
  
• Changeling by .boo/@LineMagiX and SPL4SHZ0N3 - An extremely impressive collab between boo and spl4sh. Released earlier than planned but still relatively complete.
  
• Mount Olyxmpus by .boo/@LineMagiX - An unfinished posthumous release of what was surely to be .boo's greatest XY had it been finished.
  
• Panic by @pure5152 - pure is back with another super fun bouncy track that you are sure to enjoy!
  
• Flipside by @Lukking - an anomaly/geog-inspired romp of stop'n'go funkiness from Lukking.
  
• Dirt by @LoneVampire - Created during the development process of Line Rider Advanced, this is a notable quirk in its own right by LoneVampire, with some cool highspeed made possible with the new tools in this version.
  
• Abstract Tumbling 4: Scat by @SethComposerGuy - an experiment with lineboosting by SCG that's a whole lot of messy fun.
  
• Brouillard by @Orthuss - An uberdense XY by Orthuss.
  
• Nonsense and The Sketchbook Sessions by @shua - shua is releasing tracks like crazy lately. Here we have a flatsled recycling track and a super creative and intentionally messy track
  
• Desert Eagle and Island by @Anton - Anton is improving at an alarming rate! I bet next time he's in the newsletter his tracks won't be described with the word "improving"
  
• Get Off My Lawn by @Benwubbleyou - Benwubbleyou (aka Greatgoalie) is a track so lame and chill that it's actually really enjoyable.
  
• The Future 3 by @Flodux - a longtime French line rider player says his farewell to the game
  
• Sausage Rolls and Chips and Queso by @shua and shua's girlfriend - the sweetest thing since sliced donuts
  
• iPi rediscovered and re-released all his lost tracks. Pretty sweet if you remember any of them like I do!

• The July Contest of the Month, the Upwards Low Linecount Maze Contest, was a massive success with 14 entries! Look for a results video soon. (No word on whether there will be an August COTM yet)
  
• Phunky (the current Community Scenery Project) is only three parts away from completion. If you want to be part of this project, now is the time!
  
• Thanks to OTDE for finally recording and editing April's contest results video, Bosh Olympics. Congrats to @gaoyubao on winning, and thanks @efrazable for running the contest!
  
• The Sonic Speed / Animation Collab and the Offsled Collab are both looking really cool, but they need more participants! Go join the community collabs!
  
• The Hidden Track Competition is getting close to completion! Two entries are done, one is in progress, and the fourth is being tracked down. Expect a poll within the month!
  
• If you're looking for a low-key WCC collab, check out the Relaxing Collab or the No Flatsledding Collab.
  
• Blackheart is idling in the modern quirk section. If you are interested in working on it, please let us know!

• The Line Rider: Advanced Alpha is out! Game-changing features include immense lag reduction, integrated music syncing, live modification tools, .trk files saved to a folder, and many of the features you can already find in 3.4.x. It is not without its issues (most significantly, you must download it to play it, it is currently Windows-only, and it is not backwards-compatible with Beta 2) and some people are critiquing the keyboard controls, but the music syncing and quirk tools are making waves.
  
• Conundrumer is making HUGE progress on the core of LineOnline, with the release of a working beta2-compatible track player. He is working furiously and there is more to come very soon! He documents everything he does with the code every day on his github.

• This thing is apparently... still... coming...
  
• shua is making another big thing!
  
• iPi is still making a massive thing
  
• Chuggers is actually making something, the liar
  
• Dap is making an xy thing
  
• Getthim is still making a thing
  
• Benwubbleyou is making a thing
  

• Anton wrote:Shua and I are collabing. I am 1 minute in to my highspeed.

• Marble Soda Featured - @shua
  
• Clarifaction Scened Featured - @Catz @-Nexus- @HKay @Kohuda @RyderLR @Helios Pavonine @gaoyubao @Sheldon @Stallie @rabid squirrel @Fauxfyre @Commandercoke @Derpinator @darklight @Yobanjojoe @JZorr @Smitsy @Wolf_Spirit @CamQuartr @efrazable @BenWubbleyou @Olecool @Rafael @Lukking @Buzz @Noname219 @Nirobi @theacp127
  
• Funk Featured - @OTDE

is a track so lame and chill that it's actually really enjoyable.

BenWubbleyou wrote:

is a track so lame and chill that it's actually really enjoyable.

:]
This is exactly what I was trying. Loving.

Yobanjojoe wrote:

BenWubbleyou wrote:

is a track so lame and chill that it's actually really enjoyable.

:]
This is exactly what I was trying. Loving.

wait you're greatgoalie?

make more scenery pls

Lukking wrote:i really enjoy reading these newsletters

Dapianokid wrote:https://github.com/conundrumer/lr

Link to the GitHub, which was difficult for me to track down!!