The Free Rider Universe

The Free Rider Universe

FRHD is the last instalment of the well-renowned Free Rider series. After the inspiration that was Line Rider in 2006, created by Boštjan Čadež, Pete Shadbolt of Parroe Games released Free Rider the following year on OneMoreLevel.com. In the same year, Pete released the next version of his game, Free Rider 2. The popularity of the game skyrocketed, with dozens of websites hosting the game.

With the work of community member Maxime Simon, he created the first database of both Free Rider and Free Rider 2, allowing players to upload their tracks for the whole world to play instead of sharing the track code on forum pages. In just 2 years, Free Rider 2 amassed over 1.5 million tracks and 500 million plays, a feat FRHD has hardly replicated after a 10-year existence. 2010 saw Maxime release Canvas Rider, Free Rider 2, completely reimagined and in HTML 5.

However, come the start of 2013, OneMoreLevel and Kano Games shut down any Free Rider clones with the release of Free Rider 3, almost a step backwards for the community, being built in Flash with poor performance and interface appearance. This fueled the emergence of Black Hat Rider by haxzerz, an exclusive Canvas Rider clone where under 1000 people gathered together to save the Free Rider community when the Canvas Rider editor was sut down.

But, all hope was not lost, there was word spreading around that Kano were making another Free Rider game, one that would outdo every other official and unofficial edition of the game. In late 2013, Free Rider HD was unveiled to the world. Despite scepticism from veteran players, once they released the enormity and popularity of the game amongst new players, they simply had to join the fun.

And now, almost 12 years later, the FRHD Community continues to change, and the legacy of the games before it lives on. This thread serves as a time machine, allowing players to go back to the original Free Rider days, an ultimate nostalgia experience. Perhaps you've never played the other games or wanted to go searching through abandoned forums, all rich full of history. Who can forget the very creators, developers and companies who made the Free Rider Series possible.

The history of our game must be archived, and you have just found the Free Rider Universe. Don't get lost amongst it all!

If you want to know the brief history of each game: Free Rider Series: A Brief History
If you want to use niche editors from certain games: Free Rider Mod, Tool, Script and Editor Catalog
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Free Rider 1

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Official Releases
Free Rider (on OneMoreLevel.com)
Freerider1.org (Wayback Machine)
Free Rider Special Edition (Wayback Machine)

Mainstream Releases
Free Rider (on Freerider-1.net, Wayback Machine)
Free Rider (on TrackMill.com, Wayback Machine)
Free Rider (on freeridergame.net, Wayback Machine)

Working Unofficial Releases
Free Rider (on Crazy Games)
Free Rider (on U Got Games, Wayback Machine)

Community Releases
Free Rider 1 editor by Ness and Calculus

Forums
Free Rider Forum
The Unofficial Free Rider Forum
Free Rider the Forum!
Free Rider Tracks (Wayback Machine)

Free Rider 2

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Official Releases
Free Rider 2 (on OneMoreLevel.com, playable here)
Freerider2.org

Archived
Free Rider 2 (on Internet Archive)

Mainstream Releases
Free Rider 2 (on TrackMill.com, Wayback Machine)
Freerider-2.net (Wayback Machine)
Freerider2.co (Wayback Machine)
Fr2.me (Wayback Machine)
Fr2db.fr (Wayback Machine)

Unofficial Releases
Free Rider 2 (Wayback Machine on freerider-game.com)
FreeRider2Game.com (Wayback Machine)
Free Rider 2 (on Miniplay)
Free Rider 2 (on Crazy Games)
Free Rider 2 (on Silver Games)
Free Rider 2 (on Lagged)
Free Rider 2 (on Kippykip Games)
Free Rider 2 (on Newgrounds)
Free Rider 2 (on ComDotGame)
Free Rider 2 (on Riemurasia.fi)
Free Rider 2 (on JayIsGames)

Community Releases
Free Rider 2 editor and TrackMill editor by Ness and Calculus

Forums
Fr2db Forums (Wayback Machine)
Fr2.me Forums (Wayback Machine)
TrackMill Forums (Wayback Machine)
The Unofficial Free Rider 2 Forum (Wayback Machine)
Free Rider 2 - Tracks
Free Rider 2 Forums
Free Rider 1 and 2 Forum
Free Rider 2 Fun
Free Rider 2 Forum

Canvas Rider

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Official Releases
Canvas Rider by Maxime Simon
Canvas Rider Extension (support discontinued)

Community Releases
Free Rider 2 - Ghostdog created by fantomeblacktree (HTML 5 version replicating Canvas Rider Editor)

Forums
FR2DB and Canvas Rider Forums archived by Maxime Simon
Unofficial Canvas Rider Forum

Free Rider 3

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Official Releases
Free Rider 3 (on KanoGames.com)
Free Rider 3 (on OneMoreLevel.com)
Free Rider 3 Extension (support discontinued)

Mainstream Releases
Freerider-3.net (Wayback Machine)
Freerider-3.com (Wayback Machine)

Unofficial Releases
Playable/Player loads
Free Rider 3 (on unblockedgames.blogbucket.org)
Free Rider 3 (on Ublocked WTF Google Sites)
Free Rider 3 (on DoomsPlay Games)
Free Rider 3 (on Papa's Game)
Free Rider 3 (on Miniplay)
Free Rider 3 (on Joguix)
Free Rider 3 (on Free Fun Games)
Free Rider 3 (on KBHGames)
Free Rider 3 (on FoxLodgeGames)

Unplayable
Free Rider 3 (on X Dirt Bike, Wayback Machine)
Free Rider 3 (on Izzy Games)
Free Rider 3 (on Kongregate)
Free Rider 3 (on Games Flow)
Free Rider 3 (on FavouriteMiniGames)
Free Rider 3 (on Flash Museum)
Free Rider 3 (on Only Platformers)

Black Hat Rider

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Official Release
Black Hat Rider by haxzerz (Wayback Machine)

Community Releases
Black Hat Rider reopened by Calculus (access key: 2008, many game features aren't available/don't work)
Black Hat Rider Editor created by Calculus

Forums
Black Hat Rider Forums (Wayback Machine)

Free Rider HD

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Official Releases
Free Rider HD created by Kano Apps and OneMoreLevel
Free Rider HD Extension (support discontinued)
Free Rider HD Offline Editor (support discontinued)
Free Rider Jumps created by Kano Apps (Char), Stig, mR..A, Max007x and speedy__XD
Free Rider HD Mobile created by Kano Apps

Unofficial Releases
Free Rider HD (on Silver Games)
Free Rider HD (on Lagged)

Community Releases
track editor 1.1 created by Ness, Pie42 and others
freerider.app created by Ness
Free Rider Roblox Edition created by Calculus

FRHD Community
Free Rider HD Community
Free Rider HD Discord Server

Websites and Social Media

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Parroe Games and OneMoreLevel
Parroe Games (Wayback Machine)
OneMoreLevel.com
One More Level Youtube Channel
One More Level Facebook

Free Rider 1+2
Free Rider 1 YouTube Channel
Free Rider 2 YouTube Channel

Trackmill
Trackmill.com (website now broken)
TrackMill Youtube Channel
TrackMill Facebook (now deleted)
TrackMill Steam Community (now deleted)

FRHD and Kano Games/Apps
Free Rider HD Instagram
Free Rider HD Facebook
Free Rider HD Twitter
Free Rider HD YouTube Channel
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Kano Games YouTube Channel
Kano Apps YouTube Channel
Kano Apps Facebook
Kano Apps Twitter
Kano Apps Instagram
Kano Games Website
Kano Apps Website
Kanoplay Website
Kano Apps Google Play Website
Kano Apps LinkedIn

Creators/Developers

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Pete Shadbolt - Creator of Parroe Games and Free Rider 1 + 2, now Chief Scientific Officer and Co-founder of PsiQuantum
Twitter
Google Scholar Profile
Personal LinkedIn
Website
PsiQuantum Website
PsiQuantum YouTube Channel
PsiQuantum LinkedIn

Ira Willey (Ira) - Creator of OneMoreLevel.com and Addicting Games
Realtor Website
LinkedIn
YouTube Channel
Instagram
Twitter
Gaming Reddit
Business Reddit

Maxime Simon - Creator of FRDB + FR2DB and Canvas Rider
Developer Website
LinkedIn

Dan Gusak (Goose) - Creator of Trackmill
Twitter
Personal Twitter
GameTechMods Profile

Charles Bodman (Char) - Ex-software Engineer and Developer at Kano/FRHD, now a Senior Software Engineer at Flashpoint
Instagram
Twitter
Facebook
GitHub
LinkedIn
Stack Overflow Profile
Flaspoint LinkedIn
Flaspoint Twitter

Eric Haight (Eric) - Co-founder and current President of Kano Apps, FRHD Developers
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn

 

Bro

 

FRHD just released a multiverse

 

FRU

 

Free Rider Cinematic Universe when

 

we got a free rider multiverse Before GTA 6