Interesting, though I confess when I saw the title I first thought of The blind swordsman game from Evildog which is written in flash and has awsome mechanics, find the db page Here.

While on the one hand it's good the game is being produced sinse any exposure of audiogames is a good thing, plus I don't believe there are any current audiogames for that device, at the same time I'm really! disappointed with what the release says:

Not only is the bog standard left/right/center target thing really! behind the times, but I'm disappointed if this is being billed to a sighted public as some sort of new and revolutionary innovation in audio, or indeed representative of what audiogames are like.

One of the really impressive things about games like Pappasangre and Audio deffence on the Iphone is that they manage to be really great introductions to audio both in how easy they are to pick up and play, (and how engaging the sound design and acting are), but also in that they're not just the bog standard hear it, hit it style of button mashers and are far better at showing things like required spacial awarenes, tactical gameplay requiring the player's judgement,  and first person positioning of sound sources.

So, while I've got nothing against the project, I wonder if someone who can work the comments etc should possibly make the developers aware of what else is on offer, after all if people are thinking bog standard arcade style boppit type games are the latest thing in audio, how will they ever move on to games like gma tank commander much less something like Swamp?

Mmmm, crashmaster, did you listen to the youtube trailer? or indeed read my above comment.

This Blind swordsman is a totally different game from the Evildog one (the one in flash that has the db page), and is, I believe simpler than that.

The Evildog game actually impressed me sinse while it was turn and hit, the parry ad attack system required some quite detailed timing and learning and got very tough with the reflexes, especially on some of the nastier enemies like the knight. It's still an action game, but not just a reaction game, and the rather nice story and voice acting was a bonus too, albeit what shines in the Evildog Blind swordsman is the way ssimple mechanics can be so tough.

Hi Scot and welcome to the forum.

I confess I wasn't fully aware of the circumstances with the vr gameplay, and unfortunately basic, reactive audiogames have sort of been the bane of the genre.

I do find the idea of analogue physical movement combined with fully immersive audio an interesting one however, sinsjust as a person in mormal space tracking sounds will use their bodily position to estimate where sound sources are relative to them, so the same is true for analogue physical control in audiogames thus providing an extra layer of information not possible with basic keyboard inputs.

As to games to try,  you mention Pappasangre, however have you tried Somethinelse other title Audio defense zombie arena? It's a pure arcade zombie shooter where you are surrounded by zombies an need to kill them with various weapons. What however makes it unique are firstly the fact that the zombies have been coordinated for tactical play, eg, if you take out one of the farty zombies that explode it'll take out some of the others, and the weapons you have are best used to complement each other. Secondly, you control the game with the gyro on your iphone and a set of headphones, meaning you need to physically turn! towards the zombies and shoot.

I was quite impressed how I found my physical movements matching gun techniques in the game, for example I quickly learnt that instead of trying to turn my hole body to take out zombies close buy, I was better holding my phone between two hands and moving it like a gun to take out different targets, and only moving my feet when dealing with threats behind.

Swamp is certainly something I would highly recommend as well. It is  the first ever fully online audio multiplayer fps, in which players are in a town  over run by zombies and must slay them. it has cooperative missions, loot, solo quests, different sectors and all sorts of fun stuff, however one very unique thing is the use of mouse for analogue control of your movements and shots, so many techniques from strafing to circling are possible.

There is a huge variety of other games available, from audio stratogies like Time of conflict and
Castaways to Flight simulators, racing titles, and even a couple (literally a couple), of audio rpgs, although there are destressingly many arcade reaction titles too, however in terms of their interesting control methods, audio defense and Swamp would be my first recommendations.

use the "gamelist" link on the front of site to find the database entries for the games.

Hth.

I'll be interested to see what happens next in terms of audio Vr, indeed Aprone the developer of swamp is I believe working on similar projects currently.

@Musical professor, a Vr, or virtual reality  headset is usually like a set of goggles with earphone attachments (sometimes it's literally a helmet). Vr games then take advantage of head positioning to show different graphics, or in the case of this game play appropriate sounds.

They used to be a big thing in the mid to late 90's, and were advertised by arcades as major attractions, obviously now however with the google glasses and much better and smaller portable technology, there are smaller and more convenient virtual reality devices available that you can use at home, though sinse I don't myself have a Samsung device I'll not be able to try this one either, indeed one major problem with working out audiogames that require hardware addons is people are obviously less eagre to spend on the addon itself if there are few games for it, and then developers don't make audiogames for that addon meaning more games aren't made meaning people don't spend etc.

It's one reason why I find Aprone's See monkey project an interesting one sinse he's specifically avoiding this by making the See monkey headset cost far less than such addons usually do, be compatible with Swampp as well as his future titles and including as much documentation as possible so other developers can write games for the device though I don't believe anyone has as yet.