Silverlight Making Some Progress

Posted on July 4, 2008 - Filed Under Action, Free Games, Silverlight |

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Cynergy Systems and InXile Entertainment announced a version of LineRider written in Silverlight. LineRider was originally written in flash, but InXile Entertainment felt Silverlight would provide a more rewarding user experience. InXile turned to Cynergy Systems to help them with the Silverlight development.

LineRider has become a cult hit among Internet game players. Players design courses using a pencil to draw lines. The courses can be as easy or complex as the user wants. Once the course is complete, the player sends a sledder, known as Bosh, down the course. Players have the option to save the tracks they have developed and set them to music. Many of the saved tracks have made their way to YouTube as a video.

The Internet hasn’t seen too many Silverlight games just yet. This could be a starting point for Silverlight. Silverlight could be a better option than Flash if they really do provide a more rewarding environment for the user. Not to mention, a popular game written in Silverlight will expand the popularity of the language.

Press Release Follows:

WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 2, 2008) Cynergy Systems, Inc., a global leader in Rich Internet application (RIA) software design and development, along with InXile Entertainment, announced the release of the next generation of the popular online game — LineRider — in Microsoft Silverlight. LineRider enables players to draw simple or complex landscapes with an easy-to-use pencil tool that is similar to that used in Etch-A-Sketch® and send a virtual sledder — endearingly known as Bosh — careening down the course. The game enjoys a cult-like following that has been created virally, through its online community where players save their tracks, set them to music and share them over YouTube.com.

Having already generated over 16 million views, LineRider was recently featured in two McDonald’s commercials that promote its menu items. Line Rider has also received accolades from media worldwide. Time.com commented, “Line Rider is becoming one of the most popular flash games on the web,” and The Wall Street Journal called Line Rider “Online gamers’ new addiction.” The Toronto Star noted that Line Rider was “a deceptively simple online game” and stated that it has become “the latest Internet addiction.”

LineRider was originally created in September 2006 by Bostian Cadez, a Slovenian university student. The initial version was developed using Flash. To provide a more rewarding user experience, InXile Entertainment turned to Cynergy because of the company’s depth of experience in developing rich Internet applications using Microsoft Silverlight, as well as its award-winning commitment to innovation.

Brian Fargo, chief executive officer of InXile Entertainment, commented, “LineRider and Bosh are enormously popular across a wide range of demographics. What was once a simple online game has become a thriving social network. To attract new users while also retaining our existing gamers, we needed to provide a richer user experience. Cynergy was the right partner to make that happen.”

Cynergy’s vice president, Dave Wolf, stated, “Cynergy is primarily a business-to-business enterprise application design and development firm, which is why we were able to easily apply these skills to develop such an engaging and popular consumer application. We’re honored to have been chosen by InXile and Microsoft to bring the newest version of LineRider to its loyal followers.”

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