The Evolution of Line Rider

Hey guys!

so i was on my site where I get all my epic pics/articles/etc

under the videos section i was looking at the videosift part(videosift is a site), there was a link with the caption ""line rider slaps physics across the face epicness ensues"
guess what video it was....

The Evolution of Line Rider by the LCC

Link here: http://videosift.com/video/Line-rider-slaps-physics-across-the-face-epicness-ensues

I also noticed in the actual thread itself that the view count has skyrocketed.

Pretty cool eh?

In addition! I was just taking a peek at the comments, BHCS said something about "thanks reddit" I haven't really looked, but has anyone seen a thread/link to TEoLR on reddit? If not, someone should make a thread/whatever for it on there.

This is the thing that can bring in a lot of new members, even if they are temporary/short term, some will stay. Edit the description and tell people to join the forum/site rather than just "this was brought to you by weridethelines.com" or whatever it says right now.

Get to work

edit:

Links provided from other posts
videosift: http://videosift.com/video/Line-rider-slaps-physics-across-the-face-epicness-ensues
Reddit thread:http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/e2u0m/a_friend_of_mine_is_really_into_line_rider/
hot blooded gaming thread/article: http://www.hotbloodedgaming.com/2010/11/08/the-evolution-of-line-rider-video/
Gamespot thread: http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27501489
Collegehumor video: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1943462
Dorkly(CollegeHumor's Nerdy subsite you could call it):http://www.dorkly.com/embed/5873/insane-line-rider-track edit: for some reason this isnt working for me.
Dutch thread: http://www.flabber.nl/linkdump/video/the-evolution-of-line-rider-6675

Wow...

Also, 40K VIEWS OMFG
EDIT: 50K??????????????????????????????

If this brings in more people I would be more inclined to post/be active. I'm sure it's the same for a lot of the members here.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/e2u0m/a_friend_of_mine_is_really_into_line_rider/

is reddit page.

250+ comments....

Here's the Reddit thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/e2u0m/a_friend_of_mine_is_really_into_line_rider/

#4 in Gaming! Hopefully this will attract lots of new members!

I have been looking through the comments.

There are both negative and positive.
Negative: can i have your free time type of stuff
COMICS SANS? sorry but i gotta downvote
What happened to there only being a pencil and save?!

Some positive ones:
"Fix the credits and submit that to animation / film festivals. Seriously."
That's amazing!
All i could ever do was some simply jumps.
"Due to my limited Internet attention span I only watched it halfway through but darn, it was so elegant and graceful that I paused for a moment and enjoyed the beauty and all the effort and devotion that was put into it."

Some other general comments about how there has been 'newer' versions with accelerations lines and eraser and scenery lines.

Funny comments:
"This thread has more upvotes than the video has views."
"What a quirky video"
"To the minecraft geeks out there: This is how I see you. Pretty cool I guess... but WHY?"
"[I am a potty mouth] just got real."
"yep, grand kids, I was a part of that three-year effort to create a video about the history of line rider. sit down and I'll tell ya all about it."
"It's like watching a Korean gamer play in the snow"
"Added to my list of things I thought I was pretty good at, but actually am terrible."
"Alright internets - when is there going to be a minecraft version of this?"
"So thats what? A black diamond?"
"i fully expected the last image to be a zoomed out image of the entire line, and it be a fully rendered picture of the Sistine Chapel.Epic.."
"I watched it twice. I cried the second time."
"And he's gotta walk back up that hill? [I am a potty mouth].That."

There were some about credits being long, but then others defending and suggested to watch credits
IPoopedMyPants 46 points47 points48 points 9 hours ago[-]
To be honest, if I worked on a project for 3 years, I'd want a name check, too.
The info at the end of the credits was pretty interesting, too.

Zeldukes 8 points9 points10 points 6 hours ago[-]
Upvote for making me curious enough to actually watch the last 3 minutes of the video. I enjoyed it.

Juniorsatan
Upvoting for makin me cry by makin me watching the last 3 minutes aswell.

There was discussion about music fitting the video, or being overly dramatic/too good for the video.

I'm sure I forgot some things but yeah. I also some comments about "wow that makes me not want to play because I will never be that good" or others that were like "i want to try this game/i want to play it for a bit again" I saw one asking for a standalone type version.

=D
I FOUND GB!
"Badabinski -1 points0 points1 point 5 hours ago[-]

Oh my word, I remember when this project was started on the TD forums. The memories. I promised to do a section and then dropped immediately out of that particular board. Good times."

AC was two below him and gave some additional information.

Does anyone know who the maker of the thread was?

Another thread:
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27501489

And Another:
http://www.hotbloodedgaming.com/2010/11/08/the-evolution-of-line-rider-video/

this is unbelievably awesome!!!

50k views in one day, this has to be the biggest Line Rider video spike in months!!!

wow the internet received this better that I expected, by a LOT.

lol now it feels awesome to be an lcc member cuz people are starting to be more aware of the LCC and how good you can get at linerider in general

so this video is all the rage now? o.O
thats pretty awesome. I just wish you guys would of thrown in some scenery >_< scenery is a pretty large portion on line rider as well.
*gives self an idea*

thanks IGlima, keep up the good work and let me know if you find other stuff, I will update my first post.

@Rabid- i've seen a number of comments from both reddit & the hot blooded thing saying how you 'sped it up'.

It would be cool if you could clarify what you mean by that in the description. I think some people are taking it the wrong way and are thinking you made it faster than it actually is, when you actually just made the recording from the crappy kind to the better kind.

That is what you did...right?

@ wizzy we are going to scene it

and on the Hot Blooded Gaming place i tried to explain that its not fake @ the guy who thought it was

Wizzy wrote:so this video is all the rage now? o.O
thats pretty awesome. I just wish you guys would of thrown in some scenery >_< scenery is a pretty large portion on line rider as well.
*gives self an idea*

read the credits. all of them.

Purtle wrote:thanks IGlima, keep up the good work and let me know if you find other stuff, I will update my first post.

@Rabid- i've seen a number of comments from both reddit & the hot blooded thing saying how you 'sped it up'.

It would be cool if you could clarify what you mean by that in the description. I think some people are taking it the wrong way and are thinking you made it faster than it actually is, when you actually just made the recording from the crappy kind to the better kind.

That is what you did...right?

yes, I'll add that in

Soon 100k views ^^

http://www.google.com/search?q=The+Evolution+of+Line+Rider+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
http://www.metafilter.com/97415/Rabid-Squirrel-and-Future-Quirk

Quotes!

The second half is all meets & greets.

Though I have to say, the message beginning at 5:00 is surprisingly eloquent, insightful, and even rousing. (Surprising, that is, because it's attributed to someone who goes by "Rabid Squirrel.") If you enjoyed the video, it's worth fast-forwarding to.

"This will win two Oscars."

More accurately: this will win an Oscar so awesome that that Oscar will go on to win its own Oscar in the category of Best Supporting Awesome.
posted by Eideteker at 2:45 PM on November 8 [2 favorites]

Classic example of best of the web. Great post.

Inu wrote:

Though I have to say, the message beginning at 5:00 is surprisingly eloquent, insightful, and even rousing. (Surprising, that is, because it's attributed to someone who goes by "Rabid Squirrel.") If you enjoyed the video, it's worth fast-forwarding to.

wow, thanks anonymous person

I guess this is just the perfect track/video to represent line rider and this community as well..just the add we needed

i posted a thread on gaming-universe-forum

nice quotes btw
are we allowed to post it on newgrounds?

Dutch thread: http://www.flabber.nl/linkdump/video/the-evolution-of-line-rider-6675

@Lukking: I don't see why not

lol thats not german
and cause of the music...

Lol I don't know what I was thinking.

The sad thing is that this has over 100,000 views and we don't have 1 new member. =/
However, the site got some views, as 65 people were on at once yesterday!

I already saw that thing on Flabber, I have a comment on it too

It's called annotations people! There's alot of people who probably doesn't even read the description, and even less people would actually care to click the link. Put an annotation about it in the beginning of the video, everyone would see that.

LineRiderGjert wrote:It's called annotations people! There's alot of people who probably doesn't even read the description, and even less people would actually care to click the link. Put an annotation about it in the beginning of the video, everyone would see that.

This^

Also, for some reason on that "flabber" site, it has mostly "fail" on it?

But you know what? They're dutch, and no one cares about that site. At least it's getting more views.

Wow, looking at all those sites and stuff makes me feel special for knowing some of the people that participated.

90k views in 2 days in unbelievable, well done everyone.