Audiosurf demo available News
PC News by Tom Bramwell
By now you know that Dylan Fitterer's Audiosurf, a fancy mixture of rhythm-response and puzzle that feeds off your own MP3 collection, is out on Steam. But perhaps you didn't know there was a demo. There is.
You can grab it from Valve's Steam website, and the full game costs USD 9.95. Look out for a review pretty soon.
Other details about Audiosurf on Steam that we learned last week include the fact that it's one of the first non-Valve games to include Steam Achievements, thanks to Steamworks, and that it ships with a copy of The Orange Box soundtrack to play along to, including "Still Alive".
As Fitterer put it when we spoke to him the other day, "This has turned into one crazy ride." It was already pretty crazy, Dylan - we're completing puzzles built around Girls Aloud and Alcazar.
To find out more about Audiosurf, play it, obviously. Or read our first impressions. It's up for some gongs in the Independent Games Festival Awards on Wednesday this week, too, so wish it well.
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Comments: 1-13 of 13 in total
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Well - just give it some time. There were like 3 or 4 updates during the pre-load period and 2 updates since Friday when the game has been released so Dylan is trying his best. =)
It seems that Audiosurf has gained a LOT of attention. You can see it indirectly by the score servers being constantly overloaded and that it's already very hard to find a song that has no high-score entries. Hell, somebody played Audiosurf with songs by Johnny Cash. :-D |
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Snidesworth
18/02/08 @ 15:25
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The score servers were better last night, but they certainly are taking a pounding. I woke up on Sunday to find my email account spammed with messages that I'd been dethroned as the top scorer for half a dozen obscure songs. The fact that it's a cheap buy (£6 with tax) is almost certainly one of the reasons so many are taking the plunge.
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HiddenAway
18/02/08 @ 17:15
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Someone care to tell me what restrictions there are in the demo? I'm a little disappointed that there isn't any direct downloadable demo of this. I want to try it out, but I don't want to have to download Steam and install Audio-surf, only to realise that it's too restricting to get a feel of the game...
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OrgasmicMutton
18/02/08 @ 18:37
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It's a great game and definitely deserves some recognition at the IGF, though having played the first chapter of World of Goo I doubt Audiosurf will win the grand prize because Goo is just sublime and that little bit more inventive (oh and there's Crayon Physiscs too).
Still Audiosurf is fantastically addictive. I have to confess to a moment of joy when I saw that someone else had played the Angel Summoner and BMX bandit song from Mitchell and Webb! A good mix of nice relaxing casual modes and ridiculously tough twitch gaming or a bit of puzzling if you prefer stretches out the concept and keeps it fresh for longer than you'd expect. Plus I've yet to play a song that didn't feel just, well . . . right. You have to play it to understand! |
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THEGREATMADMAN
18/02/08 @ 19:05
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I just tried this, it was bloody amazing, the most innovative thing i've seen in a while. I just knew people would be upping youtube vids, its one of those games...
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