AaaaaAAaaa!!! Dev Formally Announces '1... 2... 3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby)'

I just purchased and downloaded the alpha; after about 20 minutes of fooling around, it's pretty fun. Remember, it's an ALPHA; there are some unstable elements, but the basic motions of selecting a level to play are stable, as long as you remember to place the song files in the "Music" directory; DO NOT make subfolders, because the game will try to load the subfolder as a directory, and then generate an error. Also, do not open the file named "._Dejobaan Games -- Drunken Robot Pornography -- Mechanix Mix.mp3", as that's just an empty hidden 4K file (an iTunes thing, I think). You can open the one without a "._" at the beginning of the filename, that's the free music track included with the alpha. Throw some MP3/WAV/OGG tracks into the "Music" subfolder and start playing.

The gameplay itself is rather nice. It does control a bit like Aaaaa!!!, but instead of the mouse movement rotating your character, it aims the targeting reticle, and also tilts the camera view around a little. This means that there's no rotation, but I like this as it means less disorientation, and you're not running into the "gimbal lock" issue that was inherent in the "always looking down" gameplay of Aaaaa!!!, and sometimes made it a little hard to maneuver. Fly near stuff to get kisses, shoot away anything that can be shot so you can fly through dense clouds of cubes, and watch out for the rotating scissor wedges. If you bash into something, it won't end your run as in Aaaaa!!!, but you'll lose the kisses multiplier that you had accumulated.

So far it's really fun, though I'm already imagining levels with transitioning hue and intensity, or even morphing between draw styles.

Awriite, OGG support! Even though it's a format that was effectively killed by, prior to Tremor, requiring more FPU time to play, and the highest-market-share media players not supporting it natively, I still have quite a collection of Ogg Vorbis encoded tracks.

As for the name, it makes sense with the theme song, but it's like the same kind of issue with AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity: how are we supposed to talk about the game among our friends?

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http://www.shackpics.com/files/MarkTwain_xxsh9qvmgqs20jth5bs3.jpg

Will not buy unless we can drop actual babies.

I hope he keeps up this naming convention, can always tell when a game is his.

Awesome.

I do hope that this implies you can use AAC as well. The guys that did Beat Hazard had to patch it with $1 DLC (for the Apple decoding license) but that's fine by me.