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[nnahas]

I was sitting at my desk reading a book when my computer switched to my Earthsim Screen saver ( A earth simulation program that is also a screen saver) and I wondered if it was possible for Audiosurf to become a screen saver.

It could take songs you choose (or one's you've already played through) and just have a a random car moving down the track collecting traffic on a random background and difficulty.

Just my 2 cents. 

[Pwntastic]

I have a sinking feeling that somethign of this nature is in the works, unless im completely wrong about a few files in teh audiosurf folder

[3Destruction]

I would love that.
But should the cars be randomly generated or should they be synced to music?
Set an option for the music-random or a selection of songs (1-10 songs, sequence or random pick)

[Linkerdus]

Sounds good.
However I doubt it'd run flawlessly, things that're this awesome never work properly.
GL though

[Conexion]

Having a 'demo' mode play as a screen saver with some music might be nice... I wouldn't see the point in being able to play it though while it's a screen saver... If you want that, just launch the program.

[SN3S]

Having a 'demo' mode play as a screen saver with some music might be nice... I wouldn't see the point in being able to play it though while it's a screen saver... If you want that, just launch the program.

True, but a dynamic screensaver where you can say, put a few songs the program file's folder, and it would play those tracks while going through a PC controlled demo mode would be an awesome screensaver.

Maybe one where they show highscores from the currently played / most played songs as well?

[Lockett]

If you change the file extension to whatever is used for screensavers(I can't remember at the moment and don't have the time to check), you can set it as a screensaver and it will open up like one automatically.

[Eli Cash]

I believe the extension is just .scr -
- but that would only bring you to the menu. Not play a song automatically.

[kibiz0r]

Dylan could have it detect a command line argument that tells it what song to play -- or playlist, if playlists get implemented.

[Dylan]

Yes - I want to do that. I think it would be even better to integrate it with the windows shell so you could right-click a song file and click "play in Audiosurf". Then I guess it could just use whichever character you played last.

[Eli Cash]

that sounds excellent.

[Stark]

Yes - I want to do that. I think it would be even better to integrate it with the windows shell so you could right-click a song file and click "play in Audiosurf". Then I guess it could just use whichever character you played last.

That's an awesome idea, and something simple like a hotkey bringing up the character menu during the 'camera zoom in' phase would work fine.  Even a side-screeen hotzone that slides a minimalist character select out during the opening would be enough - new players aren't going to be starting that way.