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Lately I've been told to check out Dylan Fitterer's
AudioSurf. The game plays like a WinAmp visualisation with a simple puzzle game on top. (Some of you may remember
Klax.) It can read songs you choose from your HD and creates tracks from them to play on, meaning that the track hops to the beat and multicoloured blocks appear. If you don't know what music is, do not despair, Valve have provided the
Orange Box soundtrack for use in the game.
AudioSurf is fun, for about 30 seconds. Then the gameplay gets so boring that all you can think of is to load the next song. Because collecting coloured blocks while scooting down a threelane just doesn't cut it in the long run.
If you're like me you might just prefer something faster... A game where you can shoot down multitudes of enemies while zipping down a winding tunnel mesh at
lightspeed.
Torus Trooper by Kenta "Saba" Cho does not care about the music you play. But it delivers incredibly fast paced action. And it's free and a lot more fun.
ControlsMovement: Arrow keys | NumPad |
WASD | Joystick
Fire:
Z | Left-
Ctrl |
. Charge Shot / Break:
X | Left-
Alt | Left-
Shift |
/Pause:
PComand Line Startup Options-res x y Screen resolution
-window Windowed mode
-brightness n Brightness (n = 0 - 100, default = 100)
-luminosity n Luminosity (n = 0 - 100, default = 0)
-nosound No sound
-reverse Reverse shoot key and charge shot key
Create a shortcut from tt.exe, in the shortcut properties enter the startup option directly after the path, like this:
"C:\Games\Torus Trooper\tt.exe" -res 1600 1200Hints- Your time is running out in the upper left corner. Shoot boss enemies to gain more time.
- You can also get more time by reaching the next score line. That's the small number counting down in the upper right corner.
- The bigger number top right is your points.
- When you see a boss, charge your shot. This slows you down so you don't zip past him.
- You can destroy the red bullets with a charged shot.
- When you reached a new level you can always restart from there in a new game lateron.
- Barrel roll. Do it.
For the version available here I have replaced the rather generic techno score with silent OGG files. So there's no music, just SFX.
Play your own music in the background or replace the OGG files in sound/musics.
If you want the game including the techno score, download it
here, otherwise below.
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