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.
Had a good chat with him at Eurogamer nice guy
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Worth a play, it’s quite slick.
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First go score: 254,731.
Ace game.
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Given how much I’ve played this the past couple of weeks I should be doing better but…
2,565,035
GO!
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I believe it is; as they say, “On” 4,179,746
Granted I did make it so that’s probably not fair.
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Up a bit: 2,839,819
I’ll get you, Hale. *cackles*
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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.
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Really nice looking game with a good soundtrack but lacking any semblance of innovation to speak of from what I can see.
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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.
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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)
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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
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Awesome fun. The game seems to reward you for not using bombs which I think is neat.
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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.
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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 >: (
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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…
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Try turning off Distortion and Ambient Occlusion in the video settings. That should get your framerate up by a fair bit.
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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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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)
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