Post by cusideabelincoln on Jul 5, 2011 19:29:39 GMT -5
I was playing Beat Hazard and trying to unlock a ticket for the Steam Summer Camp. Beat Hazard is a fun little game. It's inspired by Asteroids, but it takes your music and tailor-makes levels by analyzing the sound waves. Enemies and weapon fire dance on screen to the beat of your music. So every level - or rather, every song - is different from each other, but each song plays the same way, so you can learn and master levels.
There are different levels of enemies in Beat Hazard, ranging from random rocks to huge ships. They call the big ships "bosses". Well I was going through my music library trying to find a song that would spawn the right context for me to unlock the achievement and the ticket. I loaded up Tenacious D's Beelzeboss and was going along wasting all of the smaller ships. And then the brilliance happen; it helps if you listen to the song to understand the situation. When the rock off battle started in the song, the game determined a boss battle was fitting at that exact time ;D
This little detail is just a stroke of brilliance, charm, and maybe even luck. And it's typically the little things in games which I find are most endearing. Details separate the great games from the mediocre games. In this case, the first half of the Ten D song was a setup to a guitar duel, like the dueling banjos. The Devil duels first in the song, and at that time the game spawns a boss battle. So the protagonists in the song were battling their own boss while I was battling mine in the game.
P.S. Beat Hazard is on sale at Steam right now. Offer ends sometime tomorrow. Any PC should play this game, so pick up. The game has Steam achievements, local and online multiplayer, and 360 gamepad support.
There are different levels of enemies in Beat Hazard, ranging from random rocks to huge ships. They call the big ships "bosses". Well I was going through my music library trying to find a song that would spawn the right context for me to unlock the achievement and the ticket. I loaded up Tenacious D's Beelzeboss and was going along wasting all of the smaller ships. And then the brilliance happen; it helps if you listen to the song to understand the situation. When the rock off battle started in the song, the game determined a boss battle was fitting at that exact time ;D
This little detail is just a stroke of brilliance, charm, and maybe even luck. And it's typically the little things in games which I find are most endearing. Details separate the great games from the mediocre games. In this case, the first half of the Ten D song was a setup to a guitar duel, like the dueling banjos. The Devil duels first in the song, and at that time the game spawns a boss battle. So the protagonists in the song were battling their own boss while I was battling mine in the game.
P.S. Beat Hazard is on sale at Steam right now. Offer ends sometime tomorrow. Any PC should play this game, so pick up. The game has Steam achievements, local and online multiplayer, and 360 gamepad support.
