Entries tagged with “Juno Reactor” from Things You Don't Care About

One of the nice things about Steam has been that it allows smaller indy games to find a bigger audience; another is their frequent sales on games that make it impossible to pass some of them up (notice, for example, the recent $9.99 sale on The Orange Box that finally got CK to try Halflife 2).  A while back they had a sale on indy games, and one of the ones I picked up was Audiosurf (at the delightful Deidei's suggestion), which is a "racing game" of sorts, where the game creates a track based on a music file, and then you have to race along it and collect colored blocks.  It might sound a little lame on the surface, but it's a lot of fun once you get into it and start trying to beat the high scores, and the different challenge levels and types of racers give it some added depth.

Well, this weekend I finally got my Linux box set back up as my mp3 server and copied all my old files over from the old fileserver I had, and I decided to try out some of the Juno Reactor tracks I have.  Techno in general tends to make really fun tracks to play -- I have had a lot of fun with BT and Pendulum tracks, for instance.  But neither of those really prepared me for what I was in for.

I can't find a video of the specific track I want to show (which is Samurai), but here is Komit: