History VideoGame / AudioSurf

An indie videogame developed almost solely by Dylan Fitterer and available for purchase on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} for a low price.

Website/YouTube won't stop until every single song in the world is ridden. And before we forget, [[TheWikiRule yes]], [[http://audiosurf.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page there is a wiki for the game]].

* SequelDifficultySpike: Audiosurf 2 is significantly more difficult, due to both gameplay and aesthetic reasons. On the gameplay side, Audiosurf 2 is much better at handling very fast songs, giving you far less reaction time than its predecessor. On the visual side, modding support allows for visually cluttered tracks that make it hard to identify upcoming blocks before they're on top of you. Furthermore, in Mono mode, the grey blocks that you had to avoid in the previous game are now black with grey edges, making them much harder to identify from a distance.

* GameMod: Thanks to Audiosurf 2's Steam Workshop integration, there are endless new gamemodes to play and skins to use, turning the game's already endless replayability UpToEleven.

Throw ''F-Zero'' into a ''Klax'' track and make it a [[MusicalGameplay music game]] in much the same vein as ''[=FreQuency=]'' and ''Amplitude'' (by Harmonix of ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' and ''VideoGame/RockBand'' fame), gauge performance by implementing an online scoreboard for ''every single song played'', and design the game so that it can take almost any audio track in most common formats and [[MusicPlayerGame generate a playable track out of it.]] Y'know, the sort of game that is probably a controlled substance in several countries. The genre is hard to pin down, but can broadly be described as a PuzzleGame.

* MusicPlayerGame: TropeCodifier.

Throw ''F-Zero'' into a ''Klax'' track and make it a music game (though not a RhythmGame in terms of timing button presses) in much the same vein as ''[=FreQuency=]'' and ''Amplitude'' (by Harmonix of ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' and ''VideoGame/RockBand'' fame), gauge performance by implementing an online scoreboard for ''every single song played'', and design the game so that it can take almost any audio track in most common formats and [[MusicPlayerGame generate a playable track out of it.]] Y'know, the sort of game that is probably a controlled substance in several countries. The genre is hard to pin down, but can broadly be described as a PuzzleGame.

* DifficultySpike:
** Any Elite character on Ironmode.
** Happens a lot in-song too- Radioactive by Kings of Leon goes insane when there is a chorus.
** Same happens in Shut Up and Explode by Boom Boom Satellites - while never exactly a cake walk, it goes scarlet close to the end.
** Bioxeed music (from ''{{VideoGame/Dystopia}}'' or otherwise), tend to start off slowly then go intense as soon as the main part of the song kicks in.

The ability to play any song is the game's unique selling point. Rather than being restricted to whatever tracks and artists the developers could buy, you can just go with anything in your CD collection. If your music collection sucks, then there's also the in-game "radio" system where the developer selects a bunch of indie tracks suggested to or discovered by him; plus the fact that the game comes with the [[VideoGame/HalfLife2 Orange]] [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Box]] [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} soundtrack]] bundled with it for free. Yes, that includes ''[[{{Earworm}} Still Alive]]''.

* GeniusProgramming: The creation of a game that can generate a level from ''any audio clip in existence'' can only be described as such.

Some people at the GameFAQs community have tried figuring out a plot to this game. [[http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=944577&topic=43077598 This topic]] comes closest to what the plot actually is. Then again, [[DisneyAcidSequence with an acid game like this]], who needs plot?

* ExcusePlot: Some folks over at GameFAQs came up with one [[http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=944577&topic=43077598 here]].

* SequelDifficultySpike: Audiosurf 2 is significantly more difficult, due to both gameplay and aesthetic reasons. On the gameplay side, Audiosurf 2 is much better at handling very fast songs, giving you far less reaction time than its predecessor. On the visual side, modding support allows for visually cluttered tracks that make it hard to identify upcoming blocks before they're on top of you. Furthermore, in Momo mode, the grey blocks that you had to avoid in the previous game are now black with grey edges, making them much harder to identify from a distance.

Throw ''F-Zero'' into a ''Klax'' track and make it a music game (though not a RhythmGame in terms of timing button presses) in much the same vein as ''[=FreQuency=]'' and ''Amplitude'' (by Harmonix of ''GuitarHero'' and ''RockBand'' fame), gauge performance by implementing an online scoreboard for ''every single song played'', and design the game so that it can take almost any audio track in most common formats and [[MusicPlayerGame generate a playable track out of it.]] Y'know, the sort of game that is probably a controlled substance in several countries. The genre is hard to pin down, but can broadly be described as a PuzzleGame.

* LetsPlay:
** Step One: Go to Website/YouTube.
** Step Two: Search for "Audiosurf".
** Step Three: Spend a weekend watching runs.

A sequel called ''Audiosurf 2'' is currently available for early access on Steam. Unlike the original game, the sequel takes its title rather literally with the player now playing as a cyber-wakeboarder who, in addition to picking up blocks similar to the original games Mono mode now must use the tempo of the song to launch himself into the air and do flip and grab tricks. [[http://blog.audiosurf2.com/ Check out the development blog here.]]

Website/YouTube won't stop until every single song in the world is ridden.

An indie videogame developed almost solely by Dylan Fitterer and available for purchase on {{Steam}} for a low price.

Throw ''F-Zero'' into a ''Klax'' track and make it a music game (though not a RhythmGame in terms of timing button presses) in much the same vein as ''[=Frequency=]'' and ''Amplitude'' (By Harmonix of ''GuitarHero'' and ''RockBand'' fame), gauge performance by implementing an online scoreboard for ''every single song played'', and design the game so that it can take almost any audio track in most common formats and [[MusicPlayerGame generate a playable track out of it.]] Y'know, the sort of game that is probably a controlled substance in several countries. The genre is hard to pin down, but can broadly be described as a PuzzleGame.

Throw ''F-Zero'' into a ''Klax'' track and make it a music game (though not a RhythmGame in terms of timing button presses) in much the same vein as ''[=FreQuency=]'' and ''Amplitude'' (By Harmonix of ''GuitarHero'' and ''RockBand'' fame), gauge performance by implementing an online scoreboard for ''every single song played'', and design the game so that it can take almost any audio track in most common formats and [[MusicPlayerGame generate a playable track out of it.]] Y'know, the sort of game that is probably a controlled substance in several countries. The genre is hard to pin down, but can broadly be described as a PuzzleGame.

A sequel known as ''"Audiosurf 2"'' is currently available for early access on Steam. Unlike the original game, the sequel takes its title rather literally with the player now playing as a cyber-wakeboarder who, in addition to picking up blocks similar to the original games Mono mode now must use the tempo of the song to launch himself into the air and do flip and grab tricks. [[http://blog.audiosurf2.com/ Check out the development blog here.]]

See also ''BeatHazard.''

* AlternateRealityGame: Is one of the Potato Sack: 13 indie games that form the bulk of the material of Creator/{{Valve|Software}}'s "[[http://valvearg.com/wiki/Valve_ARG_Wiki PotatoFoolsDay]]" ''Videogame/{{Portal 2}}'' ARG.

** And if you want the Elite throne on ''any'' popular song, it's nearly impossible to do so if you use Ninja Mono.

** Any Elite character on Ironmode. On some songs (*coughthroughthefireandflamescough*), any character on Ironmode, period.

* BetterThanItSounds: It really ''is.''

A sequel known as ''"Audiosurf 2"'' has been announced. Unlike the original game, the sequel takes its title rather literally with the player now playing as a cyber-wakeboarder who, in addition to picking up blocks similar to the original games Mono mode now must use the tempo of the song to launch himself into the air and do flip and grab tricks. [[http://blog.audiosurf2.com/ Check out the development blog here.]]