Skater XL (skaterxl.com) is a $40 skateboarding game (Steam Page) ; recently a mod called Blader XL (mod page) surfaced and allows you to play the game as a rollerblader. The mod is pretty popular on Youtube.

How to install the mod

Download the Blader XL mod ; you’ll also need two other files: XLGearModifier & XXLMod ; the XXLMod is not available on the regular page at the moment, you can get it via their discord.

XLGearMod is used to port the assets (skates) into the game and DawgVinci’s XXLMod3 has presets available to set your feet up in very specific circumstances. Included in this download are Assets and textures for skates, presets for various grinds/grabs, and a stats preset for “ideal” rollerblading.

• The Stance Presets will go into: Documents > SkaterXL > XXLMod3 > StancePresets
• The Stats Presets will go into: Documents > SkaterXL > XXLMod3 > StatsPresets
• The Assets will go into: Documents > SkaterXL > XLGearModifier > Assets
• Textures go into gear folder.

If you don’t know where your game is located, and you installed it via Steam, check this page.

The tricks

Here is a list of the available tricks (on the left) ; you can customize the tricks, each trick is defined by the position/ rotation of left and right feet, as well as the left and right toes rotations.

Mikey Lynch interviews Jelle Van den Audenaeren & Sophie de Cocker, the creators of the aggressive inline skating game On a Roll.

Check the Podcast on Soundcloud, Stitcher & Itunes.

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Welcome back to Unknown Pleasures, our weekly deep dive into the deep, dark waters of Steam new releases. These are the games that we most liked from the past seven days (with the exclusion of those we’ve already wittered about in detail).

On a Roll: A latter-day Tony Hawk Pro Skater but with rollerskates, basically. Well put together, and straddles a line between comforting late 90s/early noughties familiarity and the inherent physicsy differences of boards and skates, though the Max Payneish fixed-expression photo-faces are a little creepy. There’s some real gnarly maps, such as the plummeting drops of an abandoned water park, and plenty of scope to customise both your skater and their skatepark. Rad! It’s Early Access, so hopefully later builds will introduce a much needed pop-rock-rap soundtrack too.

Beautiful O.B - Let’s Play

On A Roll Game - NEW SKATING GAME! - Let’s Play On A Roll Gameplay & Review - First Impressions Welcome to On A Roll Gameplay! On A Roll is a new skating game that focuses on rollerblading! Keep in mind, On A Roll is still in early access, so the gameplay might be a bit off until On A Roll receives more polish and such!

Let’s Play On a Roll - 18 min of game footage by LGTVNL

Let’s Play On a Roll. An Inline Skating Sim on PC. Game is in Early Access so there are some bugs in there.

Pavel (Polish Language) - On a Roll Gameplay

Episode 1: PLAY - Episode 2: PLAY. The videos of Pavel are the most popular for the moment, the first episode had 8x the views of the other Youtubers: 24k views in 3 days for the first and 4.5k views for the second in a few hours.

On a Roll is out! Release on Steam. The game is in early access and will feature DLC (more infos). Console release (PS4, Xbox One) is planned for February 2018 (more infos).

Users reviews are mostly positive (72% of 22 reviews at the time of this post). Don’t forget to write your reviews, positive or negative, as long as it stays constructive ; you can update it later. Also check the Steam forums to report bugs and/or find solutions if you have trouble with your setup.

Steam Charts - An ongoing analysis of Steam’s concurrent players.

If you’re interested by the stats of On a Roll, you can check the dedicated page on Steamcharts.com.

Let’s Play On a Roll - 18 min of game footage by LGTVNL

“Let’s Play On a Roll. An Inline Skating Sim on PC. Game is in Early Access so there are some bugs in there.” - LGTVNL.

On a Roll is almost out! Release date: August 30, 2017 on Steam. Price: $19.90 (-10% the first week). Track by Dun Robin.

Early Access

On a Roll will be released in early access on Steam August 30th 2017. This will be an almost final version, at the same time an external company will start the porting process to PS4 and Xbox One. Planned release date for the consoles: february 2018 (more infos).

Downloadable content (DLC)

“We want to tell you that we have a DLC package in the making: Object Dropper Pack #1. It will include a whole range of extra droppable objects such as rails, ramps, ledges, spotlights and more. You can use these to further build your own skatepark or to make adjustments to the existing environments.

Good news for backers of the On a Roll Kickstarter campaign: you will get this DLC package for free. The details are explained in the email we sent out today” (Facebook).

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You can find all the infos about the release of On a Roll in this post. Check On a Roll on Steam, visit Onaroll-studio.com.