Another game inspired by AudioSurf !

[Hibou]

First, let me say that I just LOVE Audiosurf and I play it daily on my lunch hour (Thank you, Dylan, for making this splendid time-waster

As you know, Audiosurf bloc placement is mostly based on the beats.  I wondered if it would be doable to have it work on the melody instead.  So, I built a simple game based on this (it uses the same audio engine as AudioSurf) and from the results, I think there could be potential for melody analysis in AudioSurf.

http://www.hibou.qc.ca/stentor/Stentor-demo-setup.exe

(you can see the top of the screen as if it was a piano with its keys and each note should be heard at the exact same moment that its laser touch the top of the shield)

It is far from perfect, and Audiosurf is still much funnier to play (IMHO), but it does look very good on some music styles (Rock, Metal & Dance for instance, try it on Cliffs of Dovers if you have it !).  Maybe additionnal music analysis algorythm could be made available in AudioSurf, that would be great !

[Pwntastic]

Holy crap! Awesome job, duder!

[ViRUS]

Playing it, loving it, waiting for the 1.0 version ^^

[Lavos^]

I want to see the audio engine you wrote.

SICK game. Encounter on fast rapes me, I only got 80%. It's super hard 'cause there's no gap between the lines.

[FluFFey2]

89% first with video proof with 100% is best.

[LennardF1989]

I want to see the audio engine you wrote.

Any chance you release the source?

BTW. It crashes for me at the moment it lists some MP3 files, and now it memorized the path, so it keeps crashing.

[RandomVillain]

lots of fun, you should keep on working on this concept!

[Lavos^]

89% first with video proof with 100% is best.

Lol na, trying to learn Japanese, no time for this game now.

[Lavos^]

I want to see the audio engine you wrote.

Any chance you release the source?

BTW. It crashes for me at the moment it lists some MP3 files, and now it memorized the path, so it keeps crashing.

It gets all the ID3 tags in the list, so if you're loading a folder with a lot of songs, give it a few minutes. It may be that some of the songs have no ID3 tag, or an unsupported character in it.

[FluFFey2]

Lol na, trying to learn Japanese, no time for this game now.

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I want to see the audio engine you wrote.

Any chance you release the source?

BTW. It crashes for me at the moment it lists some MP3 files, and now it memorized the path, so it keeps crashing.

start->run->regedit-> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stentor and change CurrentPath to a path that hopefully doesn't bug. (might be different if you use windows vista or any other OS than windows XP)
If you knew this and only wanted to report a bug, ignore this

[Zergreth]

It's really nice! Though it still doesn't have that "I am playing the music I am hearing" feeling.

[Pwntastic]

Lennard, you can remove it if you open regedit and go to hkey_users\userguid\software\stentor
there should only be one or two keys in the hkey_users section, so it shouldnt be too hard to figure out which one
then just delete the stentor key or the currentpath key

[Lavos^]

Lol na, trying to learn Japanese, no time for this game now.

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Dunno what you said there.... no translation for fuashikusuzo anywhere and a google result yields nada.

Hmmm... "foreigner" maybe?

[VDZ]

Lol na, trying to learn Japanese, no time for this game now.

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Dunno what you said there.... no translation for fuashikusuzo anywhere and a google result yields nada.

Hmmm... "foreigner" maybe?

Foreigner would be がいじん, wouldn't it?

EDIT: Also, it seems to be two words, one written in katakana, the other in hiragana. 'fuashiku suru'. 'Suru' means to do, to try or to print. I have no idea about 'fuashiku', though.

[VDZ]

Hm, very good game. Best thing about it is, some songs that aren't difficult at all on Audiosurf, can still be difficult in this game. The opposite also holds true; while I can't even dream of getting stealth on 'Ou Mono' from the Paprika OST on Audiosurf, I got an easy 100% on fast with it here.
I noticed a huge difference in particular with Ali Project's songs. I also found that "Motteke Sailor Fuku Metabo Taisku Mix" was rather difficult.

Most important feature it needs is being able to play full songs, of course >.> An online scoreboard like Audiosurf's would also be very nice.

I would also like to compliment the game's creator on adding a couple of functions that Audiosurf lacks; most notably the fact that it previews songs while choosing them, and the fact that it keeps track of your highest score so far on the song.

Good job, can't wait until 1.0.