Line Rider: Falling Down the Hill

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June 16th, 2007 posted by Andrew in DS, Wii

It started off as a school project back in September 2006, ended up the seventh most searched term on Google by October, and had sold console rights for the Nintendo Wii and DS by December, may be losing its popularity after the game’s developers have randomly “disappeared.”

Line Rider a Flash-based “toy” as described by creator Boštjan, was re-owned to a small game development company, “InXile Entertainment” which has only one finished game in it’s history: Bards Tale. InXile Entertainment announced then, that they were to start development on DS and Wii versions of the popular Flash game, which would be released by Spring 2007, with the Flash version to be continued by its original developer.

With Summer rushing towards us, we have not received any word from Boštjan (known as fsk on DeviantART) since February 26th in a DeviantART blog post.

With the random disappearance of Boštjan and InXile Entertainment, The Line Rider Character has been on a new trip lately: the downhill slope, “popularity.” According to Alexa.org, Line Rider’s home at http://official-linerider.com has lost 53% of its traffic compared to three months ago, which was nearly 0.01% of the internet’s entire traffic. The site’s traffic rank, as compared to the other websites on the internet, has dropped 19,022 positions in the past three months, and is currently ranked 33,340th.

We can only expect Line Rider to fade into memory as it continues to lose popularity mainly due to what seems like the project being abandoned.