Type:Rider
Step into the gaming world with Type:Rider, one of the top $2.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by ARTE France Apps, this captivating Entertainment game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 4+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 10th October 2013, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 20th July 2018.
Whether you have a liking for Entertainment, Puzzle, or Adventure games, Type:Rider is sure to keep you hooked!
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- "An intricately-designed masterpiece that constantly throws fresh challenges and situations at you for the entire run of the game." – Touch Arcade – 4.5/5
- "You never realized fonts could be this exciting" – Kotaku
- "The "Final FONTasy" of video games. […] Type:Rider encourages players to learn about type by exploring a world of fonts." – FastCoDesign
- "The unlikely appeal of Type:Rider, a platformer about fonts" – Kill Screen
Immerse yourself in this fascinating and unique experience to uncover the history and secrets of Fonts & Characters !
Play as 2 dots and travel through the ages of typographic styles and techniques.
From the rock paintings of prehistoric times to Pixel art of the 2000’s, solve all the riddles by riding the most popular fonts and characters (Garamond, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Pixel, Comic Sans…) in a very captivating musical and visual environment.
Type:Rider is an adventure puzzle game produced by AGAT – EX NIHILO and ARTE that brings gaming experience to a whole new daring level.
FEATURES
— 10 worlds echoing key periods of the typograhy’s history
— Breath-taking artworks and musical vibes
— Immersive and intriguing atmosphere
— Great historical archives and paintings
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If you encounter issues, please reboot your device. Then, reduce the resolution of the game in the parameters of Type:Rider and set the quality from « Fantastic » to « Good ».
IMPORTANT NOTE: Type:Rider is compatible with iPad 2 and up, iPhone 4 and up and iPod touch 5th generation – THE GAME WILL NOT RUN ON EARLIER DEVICES
What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of Type:Rider on 20th July 2018:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Type:Rider is back and now available on iOS 11!
Hear from the Players – Type:Rider Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about Type:Rider:
If youre a graphic designer, young or old, this is a phenomenally fun way to explore the history of typography. Gorgeous visuals, great and simple historical anecdotes. Obsessed!
This game is awesome and educational about 10 different font and is very fun.
But there are 3 issues with achievements: time attack, collect all letters and collect all the & that are refusing to pop-up or acknowledge you got them. Its frustrating considering they arent easy to get and we want to officially 100% the game. Collecting everything and beating all the levels (especially that maddeningly hard special level) were fun, but Id like to get rewarded for our efforts with the trophies/achievements the devs put in the game as it gave us all the other ones so Im not sure why it wont give us the 3 we mentioned since we completed all requirements.
Great game. We downloaded it because of the typography theme. We keep playing because its a lot like the first Badland, one of our favorite games ever! If you like the alphabet, book history, or Badland, you will like it. And its free!!
Please update this app for compatibility.
This game isnt for everyone but if you are a graphic designer, calligrapher, or have an interest in typography, this is a must play game! The developers have made love, care, and creativity flow out of every corner of this adventure. Im trying to sound more like a professional reviewer and we can tell Im not pulling it off. Forgive us… This game is super cool if youre into typography. If you are, buy it and play it.
Overall it is an entertaining game with a creative landscape of fonts and text. Every once in awhile Id get stuck and it became down right frustrating. We love a good challenge and made it all the way to book 8, but finally had to quit when we couldnt get past a part. Maybe we were just missing a simple solution, but reading other reviews, sounds like its common for everyone. We can understand making some letters nearly impossible to get for 100% completion, but shouldnt have this much difficulty on the standard play through with no way to bypass.
We loved this game when it first came out years ago but now when trying to play it, it freezes and doesnt work. Wish the developer would fix it.
We played this game on steam years ago, and then again on switch when that version released. Its fun and informative. Sadly, this version of the game is broken. It has so far frozen in the tutorial level 5 times in a row. Please fix.
We played this game as a kid on our sisters iPad and absolutely adored it, mega fun way to spend our free time and such a whimsical premise. However we are currently experiencing issues after redownloading it in which after collecting our first asterisk the game will not let us advance, very frustrating since we know this is a great game, perhaps the game needs to be updated but it would be really cool to play it again.
Bought this game, super excited about the topic. But was unable to proceed after opening the first page. Not able to resume the game play.
I’d love to know what comes after cave paintings. As soon as the little page opens to read about cave paintings it freezes up. You can touch different areas and hear what’s supposed to be happening, but the screen never changes. It’s just stuck on cave painting history. Sound effects of pages turning, etc play, but that’s it. Please fix bug.
Doesnt work on the new iPhone SE. Freezes during the tutorial. Dont buy it.
At a certain point its just not fun anymore. A challenge is one thing, just making it pointlessly difficult is another. We were interest in touring the levels and reading about the history, guess we cant do that now.
Have downloaded, re downloaded, tried to change quality. Cant get past first page.
Looks attractive but getting serious bugs in the book, which resulted in not getting past the tutorial.
Beautiful with an ingenious level design, this is easily a five-star game. The physics are tricky and the decision to use a colon as the protagonist is sometimes very difficult. But all in all, this game works astoundingly well. That is, until Helvetica turns into a druggy dream. From there on, the levels are frustrating and we wish the designers had not chosen Pixel as the final font. That said, the hidden bonus level is insane anyone who did not hate this font until then, surely will after playing the "LOL cat of death".
We were watching a stacyplays video on YouTube, when we thought "is this on the iPad?". It was, but sadly, it looks like its going to load, and then crashes. Please fix this. The game looked amazing though, so we give it 5 stars.
Lots of hidden information and great historical context for many of the fonts that folks use and take for granted every day. We just knew there had to be a hidden level and knew what font would be highlighted and the game did not disappoint. If there is one criticism, it is that the dev really should get a proofreader-editor. Mildly ironic that a game all about text/type would have awkward sentence structure and grammatical errors. Not enough to dock a star, but the dev should probably do a quick review and post an update with corrected text.
Beautiful to look at, fun to play and informative – what more can you want? Excellent game. Highly recommended!
Incredible music and visual design. Amazing game sensitiZes to cultural/historical significance to fonts.
One of our al time fav games Unique Platformer with typography we love everything abt this game Awesome ending n secret bonus level.
This is such a beautiful, artful, quirky, educational, challenging and thoughtful game. Perhaps our favorite iOS game ever!
Picked this up again after a few years and BEAT THE EASTER EGG LEVEL! W00t! Oh now it is over :(
Wonderful game, best atmosphere ever! We love it… Thanks a lot for this product! 5 stars, no crushes at all on ipad air:)
Fantastic app. Beautiful design. Intuitive gameplay. Happily addictive. Couldn’t stop playing, had to finish it in one day. Also, it didn’t pop up in the middle of the game to ask for a review, like so many other apps and games. Worth the money. Worth the time.
ITS FUNNY BECAUSE ITS A "TEXT" ADVENTURE GAME!!! ….. Y’all se what we did there? Hmmm? But anyway definitely worth it.
We love this game. Looks great and sounds are good.
Plays great on our iPad2 with iOS7!
BEST GAME EVER!!!! Look hard for the hidden final level–it’s worth the wait. We would never hesitate to buy anything this company makes, we can honestly say this is the best game ever made!!!!
We were pleasantly surprised by this. The style is draw dropping. The game mechanics are a fresh take on mobile platforming. We’re only 2 levels in and we’re already hooked.
Beautiful aesthetic, great Twin Peaks style music, and engaging gameplay. Learning a lot about the history of typography and printing very cool!
It’s a great platformer combined with the history of writing or typography, from cave paintings to modern day fonts. We’re having a crashing issue on our 4S. It said that the graphics were changed so that our device can work. Please fix the crashing ASAP so we can get back to this beautiful game/history lesson. Thanks.
We’re not new to the genius and joys of typography, but we are to gaming, and this is the perfect marriage of the two, and a great learning experience. The typeface renderings and the artwork is thoughtful and magnificent; we find we get entranced by the graphics, and the balls crash. The histories of type were explained well, and we would highly recommend this to any type geeks out there who wants a little gaming action with their fonts.
Totally recommend it. It’s a lot of fun.
Beautiful, engaging, so well done. Just beat the game and now it’s time to find all of the things that we missed the first time around.
The game is simple enough in premise yet challenging enough in practice to keep your entertained for short bursts and long hauls. The graphics are so beautiful and the music so pleasant that it’s easy to forget that there is an educational modus at the heart of the game. The only glitches we’ve come across is that the speed of the game slows down by waterfalls or any other processor-gobbling obstacle and the game freezes if you try to read a recently captured asterisk entry while in the process of dying. However, we still recommend this gem of a game for a new-found fascination with typography (not to be confused with topography :)
And we wanted to give this game 5 big fat stars. Very fun, engaging and beautiful graphics. The music is so peaceful and the game is so tricky at time. Great fun!
Simple game play with beautiful graphics. And you get to learn about typography.
We adore everything about this game. We’ve been playing with our five year old son who is learning and loving it as well. He’s adding serifs to his drawings of words and can delineate Times from Comic Sans. Inventive and intelligent graphics. Worth every penny. And like we’ve read in other comments, we too would buy anything else this developer would produce. The highest praise and wonder.
Great game! You’ll be playing for hours!
The game has excellent graphics and is history driven, which you don’t find much these days. Although we just started playing, we found myself drawn in, which doesn’t happen very often. Controls are fairly easy to use. We recommend this game.
Oh our freakin gosh! This fricken thing is amazing! It tickled all five of our fricken senses to be completely honest with all of ya gewnin font-lovers! As a matter of fact, our fingertips are still tingling, our nose hairs are standing up straight, our taste buds are sizzling, our ears are ringing, and our eyes are actually crossed. Holy fricken moly we haven’t stopped playing this game for a fricken week, man, it’s incredible much love.
We’ve bought dozens of iOS games and this one is the best we’ve ever played. The attention to detail is impressive. So much fun.
We love this game. Great educational game about fonts. Speaking of fonts, we think you should add a myriad pro level set. That is the font Apple uses. That would be great.
We get to relax, learn, and play. We love that there aren’t any lives.