By John Walker on October 10th, 2011 at 4:43 pm.
Rob Hale’s bemusingly frantic Waves has just released a demo. It’s a three minute burst of the Crunch Time mode, which you can get from Squid In A Box’s main site, here. The full game is out soon, and will be $10 either from Squid (DRM free) or via Steam. But in the meantime, you can finally get your hands on the explody colour confusion.
10/10/2011 at 17:08 Sirico says:
Had a good chat with him at Eurogamer nice guy
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10/10/2011 at 17:26 Jim Rossignol says:
Worth a play, it’s quite slick.
10/10/2011 at 17:27 Lewie Procter says:
First go score: 254,731.
Ace game.
10/10/2011 at 18:17 RobF says:
Given how much I’ve played this the past couple of weeks I should be doing better but…
2,565,035
GO!
10/10/2011 at 19:00 Rob Hale says:
I believe it is; as they say, “On” 4,179,746
Granted I did make it so that’s probably not fair.
10/10/2011 at 20:55 RobF says:
Up a bit: 2,839,819
I’ll get you, Hale. *cackles*
10/10/2011 at 20:59 SvDvorak says:
I’m guessing you’ve tweaked the scoring a bit, I don’t really think my beta score of 74,575,310 is attainable any more… but I did get 3,546,446 on my “first” try (settings were all wrong so restarted half-way the real first try) so we’ll see. And I had other things to do tonight…
EDIT: A little while later: 5,076,029.
10/10/2011 at 17:35 TotalBiscuit says:
Really nice looking game with a good soundtrack but lacking any semblance of innovation to speak of from what I can see.
10/10/2011 at 18:09 MythArcana says:
This looks like a sleek, smart and sexy version of Geometry Wars or similar. Hex grids, seas of particles effects, blooms of saturated color…count me in.
10/10/2011 at 18:28 LukeAllstar says:
I was interested in this game some time ago after seeing the first screenshots and the first video footage on indiedb
after the demo i can guarantee that i will buy that shiny thing as soon as i can on steam
Looks fantastic and looks like it can provide a good amount of fun (even the one demo level i replayed 3 times was a good amount of fun)
10/10/2011 at 18:39 moarage says:
can you use custom tracks like in beat hazard
the controls are way tighter and more reactive than beat hazard, so it would be awesome
10/10/2011 at 18:41 Terics says:
Awesome fun. The game seems to reward you for not using bombs which I think is neat.
10/10/2011 at 19:02 Rob Hale says:
If you want a highscore then bombs are the secret to getting it. Unlike other shooters they aren’t a last resort but the key to chaining together large combos.
10/10/2011 at 23:51 Xirvus.rei says:
Really looking forward to this game, it’s going to really satisfy that Geometry Wars itch; especially since Geo Wars 2 never came out on PC >: (
11/10/2011 at 00:36 Danny252 says:
Three things came to mind.
1. SO PRETTY. For the ears as well as the eyes.
2. So resource hungry. Seriously, guys? Too laggy for such speedy play, for me =/
3. So used to the other way of defining top down controls – where W is “go where mouse is pointing”. The amount of times I hit S only to smash right into the hexagon that I was shooting at…
11/10/2011 at 00:50 Rob Hale says:
Try turning off Distortion and Ambient Occlusion in the video settings. That should get your framerate up by a fair bit.
11/10/2011 at 14:41 Danny252 says:
Yeah, I did that first thing – it’s still pretty bad. I know my PC isn’t exactly a monster, but top-down (albeit with some 3D) “shooters” shouldn’t be this bad.
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11/10/2011 at 03:39 iSoLateD1 says:
This game is pretty good with 3d vision. It makes the game a touch easier. Will buy on Steam if the price is right. ($4.99 or less)