Audiosurf - Rhythm/Racing PC Game Arrives Friday ($10)

[Manny Calavera]

I was going to post this in the gaming thread but figured it would just get buried.

via Shacknews:

IGF Nominee Audiosurf Curls onto Steam with Achievements, "Still Alive"
by Nick Breckon Feb 11, 2008 12:17pm CST


Valve today announced that Dylan Fitterer's innovative rhythm-racing title Audiosurf is now available for pre-order on Steam.

Audiosurf is a simple racing game that allows users to import their own audio tracks. The game then analyzes the tracks and integrates the rhythm information into the race course in the form of tempo-synced blocks, which players collect for points.

The Orange Box soundtrack will come free with the title, including Jonathan Coulton's hit Portal track "Still Alive." Audiosurf will also be one of the first Steamworks-supported games, with plenty of achievements built-in to the radical pipeline.

An award finalist at the Independent Games Festival, Audiosurf will be available on Steam this Friday, for a price of $9.95. Pre-ordering will shave a totally tubular 10% from said fee. A public beta is currently available at FileShack

If you have a working PC you can't go wrong with buying this game for $10 ($9 pre-ordered). It's amazingly addictive and highly replayable. And the Steam achievements and (hopefully) fully functional leaderboards should make it even more ridiculous. Audiosurf + Authechre = love.

 

[Manny Calavera]

Here's a video of someone playing "Still Alive" on Audiosurf. It's kind of your "reward" for beating Portal, so if you haven't beaten the game you may not want to watch: