This brings us to the next point of differentiation between levels. In earlier levels, collecting all letters A-Z isn’t overly difficult, but it becomes a bit harder as the later levels roll in. While it’s not paramount that you collect every letter or every asterisk, not collecting all of them will lower your overall score for that level. These asterisks unlock historical information about that font as well as the time period associated with it. The purpose of each level is to traverse all four of its stages while collecting every letter of the alphabet (all written in that font) as well as asterisks which are scattered throughout. I’ll leave that one up to your imagination for now though as it’s meant to be a surprise. There’s even an additional, special font to explore after the end credits roll. These fonts include Gothic, Garamond, Didot, Clarendon, Futura, Times, Helvetica, and Pixel. From there you will unlock subsequent levels based on the order in which each font was developed throughout history. You start out by exploring the origins of written language and some of the earliest examples of structured fonts. Each level corresponds to a different type of historically significant font or typeface. Type:Rider is structured into nine different levels, each comprised of four stages. More specifically, it intends to make players more aware of how each type of recognizable typeface found today originally came to be. Type:Rider is a puzzle-platformer that aims to teach players a little bit about that history. Whether this writing includes cryptic hieroglyphics found etched into a pair of ancient stone tablets or some generic Comic Sans found printed on a menu somewhere, every type of writing has a great deal of history behind it. Different periods of human history are largely defined by the different types of writing associated with them.

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