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[increpare]

Maybe I just need some more practice...I don't know :/

(terry had some good suggestions I think; but I'll leave them for him to say in the morrow)

[jeb]

Nice music and nice presentation. I loved the "Pretendo" screen, hehe

Unfortunately you missed the chance to correct Audiosurf's gameplay problems. It's the same thing, except you can't choose your own music

[muku]

Unfortunately you missed the chance to correct Audiosurf's gameplay problems. It's the same thing, except you can't choose your own music

Care to elaborate? I have to admit that I haven't played AudioSurf really excessively, just a couple of times. But I liked it.

Also, you can still put your own music into the songs directory.

[jeb]

If you thought Audiosurf was genuinely fun, then there's no problem. If you are an old grumbling man like me, the mp3 visualizer novelty quickly fades away and leaves you with a dull game where you need to collect stuff to create patterns, except the thing you are focusing at (the ship) is between the stuff you collect and the pattern you are trying to make. Also, the game decides where pieces will appear, giving you little chance of actually improving your pattern. You have to decide to take pieces before you know if it's a smart move to take that piece. For instance, if piece A comes in lane 3, how do you tell if there will be more A pieces in lane 3 or adjacent lanes to form a pattern?

In my opinion, Audiosurf would've been a lot more fun if they skipped the puzzle part altogheter. Most of the YouTube clips I've seen actually does this (I don't know what the game mode is called, but in that game mode there are only "good" and "bad" pieces, and no puzzle element).

Demaking this game makes little sense if you don't try to improve the gameplay, since it's hard to re-create novelty.

And finally a disclamer: I don't intend to insult you or complain about your work, but you asked me to be more elaborate. You demade a game which I don't enjoy, and that is not your fault. I think the graphics are great and could be used to make really cool racing game or similar, if you want to.

[Crackerblocks]

I think the only people left playing Audiosurf are lunatics like me. I've probably put in at least 100 hours by now. But I can understand why folks don't like it, if they just play the easy difficulties or mono modes. The criticisms of a dull game and not much game-to-music relation are perfectly valid.
Elite mode seems ridiculous at first, but once you get some practice at it and stop dying repeatedly, you start feeling the zone-out effect and the game and music achieve a cosmic "oneness". Honest.

Anyway, I think this demake is quite fun, but It's pretty rough with no colors. My color detection neurons must now be directly connected to my fingers. And the triangle looks circle-ish.

And kudos for righteously rejecting C++. You must be the coolest D programmer in the world.

[azeo]

This game is automatically better then audiosurf because I can run it. Also, loving the graphics.

[Hideous]

And kudos for righteously rejecting C++. You must be the coolest D programmer in the world.

Kenta Cho. I think.

[muku]

And kudos for righteously rejecting C++. You must be the coolest D programmer in the world.

Kenta Cho. I think.

Yep, you're right. Actually I read a while back that many of these Japanese shmup developers used D. I'm a bit puzzled as to why it hasn't yet caught on with game developers in the West as much, it's so obviously cleaner and more productive than C++...

Also, uh, thanks, azeo

[increpare]

Yep, you're right. Actually I read a while back that many of these Japanese shmup developers used D. I'm a bit puzzled as to why it hasn't yet caught on with game developers in the West as much, it's so obviously cleaner and more productive than C++...

I'll have to add it to my list of languages to develop a game in (I'm actually guessing that it's similar enough to C++ that I'd be able to convert most small-scale projects from C++ to D without too much trouble).

[muku]

Yep, you're right. Actually I read a while back that many of these Japanese shmup developers used D. I'm a bit puzzled as to why it hasn't yet caught on with game developers in the West as much, it's so obviously cleaner and more productive than C++...

I'll have to add it to my list of languages to develop a game in (I'm actually guessing that it's similar enough to C++ that I'd be able to convert most small-scale projects from C++ to D without too much trouble).

Yeah, I guess you would. One thing that tripped me up at first was that its semantics for class objects are closer to Java than C++ in the sense that for a class Foo,

Code:

Foo x;

actually declares a Foo reference x (which is initialized to null); so that takes a bit of getting used to. Though there are also structs which have value semantics as we're used to from C++.

At any rate I wouldn't want to miss its slew of useful features anymore (automatic GC, delegates, a foreach loop, built-in associative arrays, auto-typed variables, insanely powerful meta-programming...).


Also I'd love it if you picked it up because then I'd finally have someone to pester about compiling my games on Mac OS

[Hideous]

I think I have no choice but to look into D. Atleast after programming class has ended this year

[shrapnel]

At any rate I wouldn't want to miss its slew of useful features anymore (automatic GC, delegates, a foreach loop, built-in associative arrays, auto-typed variables, insanely powerful meta-programming...).

Heh, nice.  These are many of the things I love about Ruby.  Python probably fits the bill, too, though I don't have any experience with it.

I'm not stalking you, I swear.

[Killbunny]

Can you please change the download link.
WillHostForFood is balls.