Most students like to play video games, but Georgia Tech students Holden Link, Cory Johnson and Ian Guthridge have built and are selling their own. Their game, Audiball, was launched during the first week of Xbox Community Games in November.
The game uses either the Guitar Hero or Rock Band guitar controllers to create tunes and move balls from one target to another and eventually to a goal. The player uses the colored fret buttons to pick which target to shoot the balls from. The more goals scored, the more the tune changes. The player shoots multiple balls at once to score combo points, which changes the tune even more. As the player progresses, the levels get trickier with some levels using gravity to pull down the balls and others having multiple ball launchers and moving obstacles.
Destructoid:
"Audiball is a competent puzzle game with a refreshing style. Its uninspired visuals, breakneck speed, and occasionally cluttered levels made me quit playing for lengths of time. Its problems are triumphed by its victories -- the large amount of good levels, challenging puzzles, and decent playing time are factors that not every XNA game possesses. For 200 Microsoft Points, it's hard to find a reason not to buy this game if you're a puzzle fanatic armed with a plastic peripheral."
Quote from site:
"Indiecisive Games have announced that Audiball, their debut title for the Xbox 360 is planned to premiere with the launch of the Xbox Live Community Games channel on November 19 at the low price of 200 Microsoft Points, fulfilling the service's burning need for a quirky rhythm-action-puzzle-based music game".
sounds interesting and it is great to see use of the Guitar.
Now if someone would only come up with some BIG BUTTON controller games
