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'Canvas Rider' Lets You Ditch the 'Line Rider' Sled for a Bike

by Matt Evans on October 16, 2010 at 09:00 AM

You might've played 'Line Rider' back in 2006, when it blew up as one of that year's biggest hits on the Web. In 'Canvas Rider,' the latest hat-tip to the original (and influenced by 'Free Rider 2'), the species-vague protagonist (whose name is, in fact, Bosh) is replaced by a hat-wearing stick figure who rides a bike instead of the classic sled. Whereas 'Line Rider' ran on Flash, 'Canvas Rider' was written in and for HTML5. In 'Canvas Rider,' your new job is to actually control the bike's speed and orientation rather than simply construct the track -- though there are a full set of track creation and sharing tools.

Tags: canvasrider, flash, flashgames, html5, html5gaming, LineRider, top

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