Audiosurf

So I've recently discovered this little game that seems very interesting. I've downloaded the public beta and played with it a while and I must say that releasing it to the public like that must have been the best thing they did for promotion.

The game plays very interestingly and has various levels of difficulty to keep you occupied. I personally didn't try the very difficult levels but stayed in the medium and even then didn't manage to catch the max. Still with just one hour of play I didn't expect much

It uses some algorithm to calculate your level setup before you start by analyzing the song and thus give you an appropriate ride. Unfortunately, as with most of these kinds of algorithms, it's not really tuned to work well with metal songs as it expects electronic music. Hmmmm, now that I think about it, perhaps I should have been playing some Machinae Supremacy instead of Saltatio Mortis :-/

An annoying thing is that it does not currently read tags but rather just looks at the filename. Since my filenames include artist, album, track nr and name,this made it impossible to select some songs from some albums as the select window is non expandable and the font is huge. So before you use it, I suggest you create an extra folder and copy your songs to it so that you can just play one after the other.

It's a pity it doesn't run under linux however as I would totally buy it. Currently I am not certain if I will as it's quite a hindrance to dual boot just to play it and I'd rather work on Wesnoth

I've also scraped my old playlist in order to make a new one that will probably, hopefully be good with it. Let's see. If you however have some songs (you think I would like) to propose, be my guests.

UPDATE: You should use a tag to mark good songs to ride. I personally use audiosurf

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