Podcast Interview: Developer of Audio Surf, IGF 2008 Finalist

Audiosurf
Dylan, developer of Audiosurf, talks about developing the game.

You can download the podcast here…
http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/audiosurf-podcast.mp3

or listen to it here…
http://www.indiegamepod.com/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/audiosurf-podcast.mp3

Show Notes:
Audio Gameplay…

Process was a lot of experimentation. Messed with the music idea for 8 years.
Did a First Person shooter based on sound

Once the prototype “felt” good, then knew it was the right design.

Had a lot of usability tests to catch a lot of the issues that caused confusion among players.

Once tweaked, sent it off to IGF

Finding out that was nominated was amazing experience

Wanted to make something that was compelling and different.

To start doing something compelling is very hard…but it’s easy to do something different.
If you do enough different things, you’ll find something compelling.

Used Quest3D as a tool to develop the game, really useuful.

Take care,
Action