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by ziddoap 1404 days ago
Excruciating 3 minute load time just to press one button and then be shown a YouTube video.

It would be amazing to share the link to the YouTube trailer before the 3 minutes of loading.

Otherwise, it looks sort of interesting. I'm definitely a fan of the art/color-palette. The demo doesn't really give any clue to what the gameplay will actually be like though, which is unfortunate. Even after watching the trailer, I'm not positive what the core gameplay features and loop is supposed to be?

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Have you ever played LineRider? [0] In LineRider there is no destination, only the joy of sledding.

Re: "just to press one button and then be shown a YouTube video": Instead of pressing "Next" at the end, press "Stop" and you can go back and edit the formula.

[0] - https://www.linerider.com/

( Press the "Play" link on the right, it runs right in the browser, just like in the old days :)

Ooof I think the reason was an issue with compression between our teaser branch and the main branch, so everything was loading with full size png/mp3/wav files—it should be fixed soon!
It looks like you'll edit equations with some kind of periodicity to produce curves, which your character must then navigate to some destination.
Took about 4 seconds for me. Still, regardless of load time I found it annoying that that was all that happened
Sorry, didn't mean to disappoint :[

I'll tell you a secret though, there's a playable alpha at https://sinerider.hackclub.dev

sssshh don't tell anyone

I might of had unlucky timing with an influx of other HNers.