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Play in a World of Fonts with Type:Rider

Mike Rankin
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Typography might seem like an improbable subject for a video game. But then again, so does a bunch of birds being catapaulted against an army of evil green pigs. So maybe it was inevitable that someone somewhere would create something like Type:Rider, a new game for Android and iOS devices.

You play the game as a pair of dots that travel through levels corresponding to various typographic styles and techniques, while riding typefaces like Garamond, Helvetica, Times New Roman, and of course, Comic Sans.

 

 

 

Check out the trailer below for a taste of Type:Rider gameplay.

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Mike Rankin
Editor in Chief of CreativePro. Instructor at LinkedIn Learning with courses on InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape, and Affinity Publisher. Co-author of The Photoshop Visual Quickstart Guide with Nigel French.
  • Perry@KidPub says:
    October 14, 2013 at 5:50 pm

    I’ve been playing this a bit. It’s cute but a little monotonous. There’s a ‘book’ to read for each period of typography (Didot, Garamond, Gothic, and so on ) that unfortunately is just a page’s worth of high-level Wikipedia style information written in English that reads as though it was written in another language and run through Google Translate. I found it amusing that there is a muti-screen tutorial for what is named the ‘intuitive’ mode of play.

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