what is this why is it just a static piece of --- Oh, cool. Really needs some kind of "hang on, loading" for the initial preloader.
Sadly it didn't work too well with my Leap. I mean, aside from the basic gorilla arm problems, I found that I got a TON of framerate hiccups and sometimes it just totally ignored it.
edit after playing some more, with a high score of 70.
I also have some issues with the game itself. The thumping beat and the "run on shift" behavior makes me feel like this is a game that wants to be about zooming down a tunnel at high speed, but it defeats itself - the barriers are way too close to be able to run through them unless you see that an entire path segment has holes in the same places, and it's just too damn hard to see them half the time. And I say this as a person who has loved playing Jeff Minter's "Space Giraffe", which is basically a Tempest variant dropped inside a music visualizer with the intensity set to 11. I am a life support system for a visual cortex,and I think these gates are hard to make out - I think this means there's something wrong. If they had a white sheen or something this would be more playable.
The scoring seems to encourage MOVE FAST ALL THE TIME too - you get 1 point for moving through a gate, and 2 for running.
Also the visuals worked against the gameplay for my first few plays. The detailed, realistic corridor with cables hanging down made me assume that "down" meant "crouch" and "up" would mean "jump" - which I assumed is pretty much a momentary thing that has to be hit at the right moment to make it through a gate. It took me like five plays to work out that, no, I'm actually just kinda flying through this corridor here. If the tube had been abstract I think I wouldn't have made that assumption.
Also when I play on keyboard with it fullscreen, the keystrokes seem to keep on falling through the game now and then; I hear error beeps over the music when I hit a key sometimes. (Safari, OSX 10.8.4.)
Sadly it didn't work too well with my Leap. I mean, aside from the basic gorilla arm problems, I found that I got a TON of framerate hiccups and sometimes it just totally ignored it.
edit after playing some more, with a high score of 70.
I also have some issues with the game itself. The thumping beat and the "run on shift" behavior makes me feel like this is a game that wants to be about zooming down a tunnel at high speed, but it defeats itself - the barriers are way too close to be able to run through them unless you see that an entire path segment has holes in the same places, and it's just too damn hard to see them half the time. And I say this as a person who has loved playing Jeff Minter's "Space Giraffe", which is basically a Tempest variant dropped inside a music visualizer with the intensity set to 11. I am a life support system for a visual cortex,and I think these gates are hard to make out - I think this means there's something wrong. If they had a white sheen or something this would be more playable.
The scoring seems to encourage MOVE FAST ALL THE TIME too - you get 1 point for moving through a gate, and 2 for running.
Also the visuals worked against the gameplay for my first few plays. The detailed, realistic corridor with cables hanging down made me assume that "down" meant "crouch" and "up" would mean "jump" - which I assumed is pretty much a momentary thing that has to be hit at the right moment to make it through a gate. It took me like five plays to work out that, no, I'm actually just kinda flying through this corridor here. If the tube had been abstract I think I wouldn't have made that assumption.
Also when I play on keyboard with it fullscreen, the keystrokes seem to keep on falling through the game now and then; I hear error beeps over the music when I hit a key sometimes. (Safari, OSX 10.8.4.)