Type:Rider Celebrates Anniversary With $0.99 Sale
Type:Rider, a classic platforming game with an original and beautiful style, is on sale for $.99 to celebrate it’s first anniversary.
Personally, I think this is one of the most interesting platforming games on the App Store. It combines a beautiful visual aesthetic with solid level design and gameplay – all prerequisites for a good platformer – but it’s best feature has nothing to do with gameplay.
Typography is a fascinating subject. We stare at words and letters all day long, but few of us know the details behind the differences in the fonts we see. But there is a rich, detailed story behind every font we read – fonts have goals, they are designed to convey emotions – and we experience the results of that work every time we read text.
Type:Rider aims to educate about typography. It’s levels are themed around specific fonts. Throughout the course of a level, you’ll collect that font’s alphabet, as well as special characters. Doing so unlocks short “history pages” that explore the backstory behind the font. This is all presented tastefully, and in an understated and optional manner. Type:Rider is definitely NOT an “educational game” in the traditional sense, but I learned a lot from it, and more importantly, it makes the subject it explores interesting.
While Type:Rider is certainly a good platformer on it’s own, it’s combination of a beautiful silhouetted aesthetic with a legitimately interesting typographic theme is what really pushes it over the top. Controller support is solid, with support for both Standard and Extended layout controllers.
If you’re at all interested in typography, you need to own this. And if you’re a fan of platforming games, you might just come away from this with an expanded appreciation for the words you see around you. At $.99, this one is a steal.