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A new course every race
Every 1v1 race used to be the same 1.5 km from the top of the mountain. Now each race is drawn somewhere new on it, identical for both riders, and still rides like a run from the top. Along the way, a bug that left old tracks hanging in the air went too.
Cutting a groove into the snow
The board used to leave a faint stripe behind it. Now it cuts a real groove, deep in powder and a frosty scratch on ice. The mountain is far too coarse to dig into, so the groove is drawn below the snow with a trick worth explaining.
A week on the mountain
Collisions and a real finish line in 1v1 races, a fairer leaderboard, smoother frames, the hockey stop and a radio with two stations: what changed between 6 and 8 October, and why.
A radio that never goes quiet
Powderline's music is written as it plays. Here is how POWDERLINE FM learned to blend one track into the next, and how APRÈS FM, a deep house station, mixes its records like a DJ.
Drawing a forest for less
Most of what a frame cost went on trees nobody could see. How we measured it honestly, what we cut, and the two engine bugs that turned up along the way.
Keeping the leaderboard fair
A browser game runs on the player's machine, so the server cannot take its word for anything. How Powderline now checks every run before it reaches the board, and what else a week of security work changed.
How a snowboarder stops
S used to be a brake pedal. Now it is the hockey stop every rider learns in their first week: the board swings across the slope, an edge bites, and the snow goes flying ahead.
Racing a friend down an endless mountain
One link, two browsers, no game server: how 1v1 races connect, why your rival is drawn where they are now, how two riders can collide fairly, and the finish gate they race to.
From the changelog
Every change that reaches the mountain, newest first. The full list, back to the first day, is on the updates page.
- A new course every race
- Nothing left hanging in the sky
- A new trailer on the front page
- Deeper tracks in the snow
- A new look for the site, and a dev blog
- APRÈS FM, a deep house station
- POWDERLINE FM never goes quiet
- The hockey stop
- Smoother frames, and rocks where they belong
- A fairer leaderboard, and safer races
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