Audiosurf
January 18th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Quick one here before I step out for the evening, but you might want to head over to the official site for Audiosurf and sign up to take part in its beta weekend… that’s this weekend!
It’s an IGF finalist that reads your music and makes levels out of it. Apparently you can play along with the songs in a variety of modes. Check out this video for an idea of what it does. I haven’t played it, but it looks totally rad.
(h/t to "Gage" for pointing this out to "me.")
January 18th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Yea I played it, pretty addicting. You link to the official site isn’t working tho.
January 18th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
This one works:
http://www.bestgameever.com/comments.php?id=29_0_1_0_C
January 18th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Thanks for the link Jeff!
If the http://www.audio-surf.com site won’t load for you it could be because your Windows Hosts file has been edited. If you remove any lines in the hosts file that have audio-surf.com in them the site will work and so will beta2.
January 18th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
*Head asplodes*
That was crazy man. I’m totally checking this out. Thanks for the look.
January 18th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Jeff Gerstmann, you are the ruler of my world.
Whenever you update your blog just to spread your awesomeness brings a smile to my face. Thank you for making me smile twice today.
January 18th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
http://tinyurl.com/2lx9b8
January 18th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
I don’t quite get the game, but that doesn’t stop me from frothing at the mouth out of eagerness to play it. The indie scene can churn out some absolutely brilliant-looking conceptual stuff and this looks no different. Hopefully I’ll eventually have a computer which is competent enough to play it. (I doubt a Dell Dimension 2400 could remotely deal with it.)
January 18th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
I didn’t quite understand what the objective of the game was from what I played from the demo. Nonetheless, it was pretty interesting to see the game change as the tempo/speed/etc. of the song changed.
January 18th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
This is the single greatest thing I have ever played - I will definitely be buying this when it releases for real. Thanks for the link.
January 19th, 2008 at 12:26 am
I’ve been playing the beta for the last week or so (there’s a hack floating around somewhere) and I gotta say, it is awesome.
Although, it does have some faults. Expert is too spammy to play it with any sort of accuracy, and it’s difficult to tell which car lines up with anything in the music. But aside from that, it can be good fun.
(Also, most Queens of the Stone Age tracks makes me feel ill from motion sickness. TOO. MUCH. BOUCING.)
January 19th, 2008 at 12:32 am
That was pretty awesome. Of course using the bad ass Muse certainly helped.
January 19th, 2008 at 1:26 am
That looks really sweet. Although, after watching that entire video, i still don’t understand what the goal is. Will definitely have to check it out.
January 19th, 2008 at 1:57 am
As you hit cars they go to the top of the column that you hit them in. When at least three of the same colour are touching, then they will start to flash and disappear. The goal is to earn as many points but the end of the song.
January 19th, 2008 at 4:16 am
This is so cool, great find. I want this now!
January 19th, 2008 at 5:27 am
yeah I heard about this on some other forum. It can get very intense depending on whats playing. Its also surprisingly accurate.
January 19th, 2008 at 6:51 am
This would be a great way for people to nose into your music collection, considering it actually compares tracks. They going to protect privacy at all?
January 19th, 2008 at 8:32 am
it’s a really fun game and I played it with the music from Midnight Brown
January 19th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Thank you for making my weekend a good amount more awesome. Can’t wait for the full release.
January 19th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Good find man, the game looks nice.
January 19th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Same here Daan, I like using Lets do it (undercover).
January 19th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Signed up. Can’t freaking wait to try this out.
January 19th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
great stuff dude, cheers for the update
p.s I imagine it wont be long before your blog becomes flooded with users, if you ever need $ donations to keep it running, you’ve got some here
January 19th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
This games gunna kick my ass.
January 19th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
I signed up for the beta. The game is supremely awesome. Being able to use your own music makes all the difference. I go into it a bit more here:
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=46459
My only gripes are it has no unicode support, and other various interface related stuff. Given a highly effective SDK and perhaps some kind of Last.FM integration this little app would take over the known universe.
January 19th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
That looks cool. I can’t wait. I haven’t gotten an email back from them. I hope I didn’t miss out on this weekend by signing up on Saturday
January 19th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
I miss it. Man! Oh well I guess I’ll have to wait ’till next month to get it.
January 19th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Thanks for the heads-up, this looks interesting.
January 19th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
For those that are in the beta (and are man enough). I’m taking on all comers at Still Alive from Portal.
January 19th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
This is game is awesome! I can’t stop playing it.
January 19th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Wow, good timing. I just found about this game a couple of hours ago.
Indeed, it is a really interesting one. I really like how unique it is with each song.
January 20th, 2008 at 4:13 am
Best heads up ever, I’m fucking addicted o.O
January 20th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Installed it, played it, and….well…meh…
The whole “play your own music” thing is kinda cool, but…..I don’t know……I actually prefer Crayon Physics…Even if it’s a simple chill-out game….
January 20th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Great game. I’ll be buying this as soon as it drops.
January 20th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Looks like Frequency/Amplitude, and it can use your ouwn music like that game on the iPod.
I’ll try it.
January 20th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
This is very, very awesome. Thanks for the heads-up.
January 20th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Maybe I’ll give this puppy a download. Or, then again, maybe not. But I probably will, if I don’t then it’s because I wanted to and chose not to do so, although I intended to.
January 20th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Jeff, by the way, let us know where we can post our questions for you to select & answer on the next Points! video. Again, thanks for answering the question about Sega so throughly.
January 21st, 2008 at 6:26 am
Thanks. I mean, really, Thanks. i was supposed to actually write a comment to this when i first read it and tried the game. But it’s so addicting that i forgot about it. What have you done to me man?! hehe.
January 21st, 2008 at 7:43 am
That totally blew my mind man hahaha. I didn’t even know what was going on and I still want to try it out. It looks like Guitar Hero on acid or something haha.
Oh, by the way I checked out the Tim and Eric show. It’s pretty funny but as far as complete randomness goes, I think Robot Chicken has it beat.
Cheers
January 21st, 2008 at 12:22 pm
After seeing this game and others with similar styles I’ve come to this conclusion.
It’s crazy that the farther we get into the 21st century the more it’s becoming 1982. Remember all those crazy neon styles and airbrushed look that permeated every magazine and movie? What was once only possible in movies like Tron, Wargames, and The Last Starfighter. Graphics that took months to render minutes of animation for a fake video game that couldn’t possibly look like that at the time.
Now we’re all basically playing Space Paranoids and loving it.
It’s very cool that while games like Crysis and COD4 are pushing the boundaries of photorealism, little games like this, E4, Rez, Galaxy Wars and their ilk are right up there in modern gaming.
I guess in 2012 is when VR will finally get real, or maybe we can play a true to life version of Holloseum.
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Thanks, that game looks awesome .. saw a video over at gametrailers.. *crosses fingers and hopes for a invite*