Join the ride

More than 15 million people have discovered Line Rider – have you? The crazy flash game created in September 2006 by Slovenian student Bostjan Cadez has taken the world by storm.
Players are given a clean sheet with basic drawing tools to sketch their own tracks.
Like most ‘paint’ programs, the user can erase designs and use different colours.
The difference in Line Rider is that the colours often represent different types of tracks, including speed pads for accelerating the sled.
It takes practice, but once you have a basic track up and running, hit the play button and a little man in a sled will drop in at the start of the track and run the course.
A good track will see the sled run its course, but a bad track can end in disaster for the tiny stick figure man, sending him tumbling into oblivion, often being thrown from his sled.
Even though it appears to be a typical flash game, Mr Cadez says on his website that Line Rider is a toy.
“Line Rider began its life as a project I did for illustration class,” he writes.
“As much as people see it as a game I think of it as a toy because there is no score and no-one wins or loses while playing Line Rider.”
There are more than 11,000 YouTube videos of Line Rider, and since its inception in September 2006 more than 15 million people have visited the game site.
Join the Line Rider fun this summer by visiting www.official-linerider.com