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Here are a few basic computer ground rules. First: When in doubt, restart! If your copy of Audiosurf is acting the fool (saying you have the demo when you've payed for the full version, for example), restart Steam and try again before you come into the thread with a question that's been asked 40 times. Which leads into the second rule: RTFT -- Read the flipping thread. There's a good chance someone's asked it already, if not then you'll be adding something to the discussion, and everyone will like you more.
From Steam:
Also, someone has set up a website specifically for Audiosurf videos. audiosurfboard.com. Register, and then you can post videos and vote on other people's videos.
Audiosurf is sold via Valve's Steam, for a price of $9.95USD. It's bundled with the complete Orange Box soundtrack, and will have full support for Achievements. A new demo will be released at the same time.
Website at www.audio-surf.com
Link to PC Gamer article on Audiosurf going Steam.
Gamasutra article about Audiosurf going to Steam.
Link to PC Gamer interview with Audiosurf creator Dylan Fitterer.
Demo on Steam.
Alright, for those who haven't played it before:
Audiosurf is a music puzzle game that could be described as part Guitar Hero, part KLAX and maybe part racing game. The game lets you load up (almost) any song on your computer, or from a CD and then play through a course created from that song. When the song goes fast, the track you run on will dip and you'll speed up, when the song is mellow the track will slope gently upward and you'll go slowly. The track will also bump along to the beat, and in some cases (nobody seems exactly sure which) the track will twist and writh, making in very hard to hit or avoid blocks.
And hitting or avoiding blocks is what the game is about. During the song you speed down the track in control of one of the games many "cars," each of which has different abilities and goals. You'll be tasked with either hitting and collecting coloured blocks (the different colours mean different points, red and yellow are worth more and come at the more "intense" moments of a song, softer colours like blue and purple are worth less, but are more common), which will pile up in 3 vertical columns. Once you group 3 or more blocks of the same colour they'll disappear and you'll get points. If you overfill a column then you'll be penalized by losing points, and, in harder difficulties, you'll be forced to wait as a ghost while you respawn, passing up valuable blocks and power-ups all the while.
The other major mode of play is Mono, in which there are only 2 colours of blocks. You must avoid all grey blocks and hit every other. Consecutive hits of coloured blocks gives more points, hitting greys forces you to clear them out and lose points. A lot of people prefer Mono, but I don't really like it.
Other than that, there's a lot going on. Power-ups of various types and special bonuses you can receive after the song is over for ending with a clear board or collecting a certain percentage of red or yellow blocks, etc.
And every song has an internet scoreboard, so you can compete for the best scores on all your favourites.
Here are a few gameplay videos on Youtube: One. Two. Me.
Since it's going to be on Steam, how about some Steam IDs?
Up first, the ever lovable "Nimble Cat"
Everyone's bud, "Nocren_PA"
Tonberry "Walk slow and carry a big knife" King's is: "Slacker in Training"
Walrus Pete (nice hat!) says his steam ID is: "Toner_B"
ArcSyn's ID is "ArcSyn" Amazing!
unpurposed: "unpurposed" Can't think of anything.
LordNibbler: "JP Browncoat" lol "brown."
thekooleagle's ID is: "thekooleagle" Shocking.
Hearthjaw: "sewersider" Ew.
AnakinOU: "AnakinOU" I think.
elevature: "elevature"
DiannaoChong: "goblinking" Good job.
Mighty: "Mightyvvhitey" Yes, that's a double 'v', not a double 'u.'
Fig- D : "Fig-D" Originality lol
Kelor: "Kelor"
HtR-Laser: "Laser" Lucky.
Darmak: "Darmak"
ParisInFlames: "skoot"
EnderWiggin13: "EnderWiggin13"
reach42: "reach42" Get it?
lucidique: "lucidique"
Boar: "Boar"
Tcheldor: "yoshi2188"
Ampix: "Ampix"
One Thousand Dicks: "cablecarrier" If you squint really hard you can actually see this attack in FF8.
DKo5: "DKo5"
MengerSponge: "MengerSponge" I had to look that one up. Now my head hurts a little. Thanks.
citizen059: "citizen059"
A raptor!: "deltron"
Nova_C: "Nova_C"
Iceman2343: "Iceman2343"
JonXP: "JonXP"
darleysam: "darleysam"
DebaserZbs: "Wersit81" or "DebaserZbs"
Ohtsam: "Ohtsam"
Lawndart: "Uncognitive"
FireWeasel: "headofzog"
Claw Shrimp: "Incredible Chicken"
Italax: "Italax"
KimFidler: "KimFidler"
MistaCreepy: "MistaCreepy"
exist: "exist347"
GiantRobo: "orthantic"
Forar: "Forar"
Audiowangers: The PA Audiosurf Steam Group.
From Steam:
Updates to Audiosurf have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
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* Added separate volume controls for menu music, game music, and sound effects
* Added new Mono Pro vehicle with jump fins (was in previous update)
* Play Double Vision with X360 controller and Mouse (or X360 controller only)
* Added "resend score" button in the event of a timeout
* Increased score submitting timeout duration to 22 seconds
* "Sharp corners" tweak now applies to ironmode only
* Added photosensitive seizure warning
* Added crypt.dll to the engine folder (bugfix)
* Fixed Butter Ninja exploit
* Fixed stone block exploit
* Increased rendering speed of achievements panel
* Typo corrections
* Expanded Audiosurf Radio browser to 9 song maximum
* Options: "X" replaced with "OK"
* Options: custom color sliders now have a color (r/g/b)
* Fixed various missing text problems with newer ATI drivers
* Fixed "Recently Played Songs" not saving between game sessions
Also, someone has set up a website specifically for Audiosurf videos. audiosurfboard.com. Register, and then you can post videos and vote on other people's videos.
Audiosurf is sold via Valve's Steam, for a price of $9.95USD. It's bundled with the complete Orange Box soundtrack, and will have full support for Achievements. A new demo will be released at the same time.
Website at www.audio-surf.com
Link to PC Gamer article on Audiosurf going Steam.
Gamasutra article about Audiosurf going to Steam.
Link to PC Gamer interview with Audiosurf creator Dylan Fitterer.
Demo on Steam.
Alright, for those who haven't played it before:
Audiosurf is a music puzzle game that could be described as part Guitar Hero, part KLAX and maybe part racing game. The game lets you load up (almost) any song on your computer, or from a CD and then play through a course created from that song. When the song goes fast, the track you run on will dip and you'll speed up, when the song is mellow the track will slope gently upward and you'll go slowly. The track will also bump along to the beat, and in some cases (nobody seems exactly sure which) the track will twist and writh, making in very hard to hit or avoid blocks.
And hitting or avoiding blocks is what the game is about. During the song you speed down the track in control of one of the games many "cars," each of which has different abilities and goals. You'll be tasked with either hitting and collecting coloured blocks (the different colours mean different points, red and yellow are worth more and come at the more "intense" moments of a song, softer colours like blue and purple are worth less, but are more common), which will pile up in 3 vertical columns. Once you group 3 or more blocks of the same colour they'll disappear and you'll get points. If you overfill a column then you'll be penalized by losing points, and, in harder difficulties, you'll be forced to wait as a ghost while you respawn, passing up valuable blocks and power-ups all the while.
The other major mode of play is Mono, in which there are only 2 colours of blocks. You must avoid all grey blocks and hit every other. Consecutive hits of coloured blocks gives more points, hitting greys forces you to clear them out and lose points. A lot of people prefer Mono, but I don't really like it.
Other than that, there's a lot going on. Power-ups of various types and special bonuses you can receive after the song is over for ending with a clear board or collecting a certain percentage of red or yellow blocks, etc.
And every song has an internet scoreboard, so you can compete for the best scores on all your favourites.
Here are a few gameplay videos on Youtube: One. Two. Me.
Since it's going to be on Steam, how about some Steam IDs?
Up first, the ever lovable "Nimble Cat"
Everyone's bud, "Nocren_PA"
Tonberry "Walk slow and carry a big knife" King's is: "Slacker in Training"
Walrus Pete (nice hat!) says his steam ID is: "Toner_B"
ArcSyn's ID is "ArcSyn" Amazing!
unpurposed: "unpurposed" Can't think of anything.
LordNibbler: "JP Browncoat" lol "brown."
thekooleagle's ID is: "thekooleagle" Shocking.
Hearthjaw: "sewersider" Ew.
AnakinOU: "AnakinOU" I think.
elevature: "elevature"
DiannaoChong: "goblinking" Good job.
Mighty: "Mightyvvhitey" Yes, that's a double 'v', not a double 'u.'
Fig- D : "Fig-D" Originality lol
Kelor: "Kelor"
HtR-Laser: "Laser" Lucky.
Darmak: "Darmak"
ParisInFlames: "skoot"
EnderWiggin13: "EnderWiggin13"
reach42: "reach42" Get it?
lucidique: "lucidique"
Boar: "Boar"
Tcheldor: "yoshi2188"
Ampix: "Ampix"
One Thousand Dicks: "cablecarrier" If you squint really hard you can actually see this attack in FF8.
DKo5: "DKo5"
MengerSponge: "MengerSponge" I had to look that one up. Now my head hurts a little. Thanks.
citizen059: "citizen059"
A raptor!: "deltron"
Nova_C: "Nova_C"
Iceman2343: "Iceman2343"
JonXP: "JonXP"
darleysam: "darleysam"
DebaserZbs: "Wersit81" or "DebaserZbs"
Ohtsam: "Ohtsam"
Lawndart: "Uncognitive"
FireWeasel: "headofzog"
Claw Shrimp: "Incredible Chicken"
Italax: "Italax"
KimFidler: "KimFidler"
MistaCreepy: "MistaCreepy"
exist: "exist347"
GiantRobo: "orthantic"
Forar: "Forar"
Audiowangers: The PA Audiosurf Steam Group.
Competitive Gaming and Writing Blog Updated in October: "Song (and Story) of the Day"
Anyone want to beta read a paranormal mystery novella? Here's your chance.
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I've got to take back my high score on Cherry Pie
How strange.
Started it up and it's downloading an update right now
EDIT: download complete, I'm in the menu now
So far it seems to be working
EDIT 2: just played a song
Audiosurf is back, dudes
Wii: 5024 6786 2934 2806 | Steam/XBL: Arcibi | FFXI: Arcibi / Bahamut
After playing a few songs I got the "beta has expired" message
I guess Audiosurf isn't back after all
Wii: 5024 6786 2934 2806 | Steam/XBL: Arcibi | FFXI: Arcibi / Bahamut
I wonder what they up they updated?
Here. Download.
If anyone else can get back about how it's working it'd be great. I have to go cook dinner now.
Anyone want to beta read a paranormal mystery novella? Here's your chance.
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What the fuck is Audiosurf?
Switch: 6200-8149-0919 / Wii U: maximumzero / 3DS: 0860-3352-3335 / eBay Shop
Imagine F-Zero where the tracks are created from what ever music you have on your computer.
It is so good.
slow music goes UPHILL
intense music makes DOWNWARD spirals and slopes
puzzles mixed with racing mixed with awesome.
do NOT play breakbeats, or aphex twin. you will hurl.
muse, mogwai and daft punk are particularly luscious choices.
really, bring this game back now.
right now.
NOW!
Only it's changed up some fonts, added more visual effects, greyed out anything but pusher in medium and ninja mono on hard (which is just as well). Also, it seems to have disabled jumping on Ninja Mono, which is odd given that it still says "press spacebar to jump."
Aside from that, still seems to work, scoreboards and all.
I've played about 5 songs after the update...curious to see if it keeps playing.
Yeah, I noticed that too. Fortunately, it's just a typo -- you can still jump, but it's left click now.
Freezepop works well.
XBL |Steam | PSN | last.fm
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Never mind, it showed up.
PSN: JPBrowncoat Xbox: BamSaidTheLaday Also on Steam! Streaming games!
any other DL links?
EDIT: nvm, downloaded it from FileShack.
PSN: JPBrowncoat Xbox: BamSaidTheLaday Also on Steam! Streaming games!
Just run the game. It should update itself. If it doesn't then be sure to post. Maybe it's just that download, and maybe it will only work for people who already have it (unlikely, but you never know).
Anyone want to beta read a paranormal mystery novella? Here's your chance.
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PSN: JPBrowncoat Xbox: BamSaidTheLaday Also on Steam! Streaming games!
Whenever I try to access my music it gives me a "Demo Expired" message and tells me to buy the full version when it is released.
Don't waste the 4 or 5 songs it gives you
I doubt it. Not even Valve is supporting Win2K anymore.
It seems to let you play more songs if you are willing to exit and restart the game. It will let you play one song each time. I guess it is a hassle-ware type thing (or a programming mistake).
when is it out?
how much?
I guess that's Napster's famous DRM kicking in?
He said he was introducing that to stop people from renaming songs to longer or more intense tracks to gain higher scores.
=(
I will pay for this if they release the damn thing. Fuck, I'd pay in advance if it meant I got to mess around with the Beta in the interim.
So it's F-zero. In some cases.
F-zero tracks are pretty wacky though.
Edit - Oh, turns out this is demo mode or some shit. You can only play so many songs and then it stops you. What a bitch.
I'm sticking with easy. The harder ones are too stressful for the kind of mellow enjoyment I want out of my music.
Also, I need more slow music.
If you like the game, wait it out and buy the thing, support the guy who's made the effort here.