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Arctic Stud Poker Run

Snowmobile Racing, Small Arms Combat, and Poker--Yes, All at Once (?!@)

Submitted by costik on Sun, 05/06/2007 - 03:00.

Type:

Shareware

System Requirements:

1.8GHz CPU/ 512MB RAM/128MB VRAM/DirectX 9c+

Developer:

Game Refuge

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Demo Allows Seven (7) Days of Unlimited Free Play

In Arctic Stud Poker Run, you tool around a snowy landscape in a snowmobile. You and your opponents start from the same point, and each must end at the finish line, but you aren't constrained to a linear path. At various points in the play area are poker cards, which you can "pick up" by driving through them. When the game ends--after three minutes, that is--the player with the best poker hand who has succeeded in reaching the finish line is the winner.

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Audiosurf is nominated in three categories for this year's Independent Game Festival Awards; grand prize, audio, and technology. It's an interesting combination of a music visualizer and a match-three game, with elements of a racer.

When you start a game, you're asked to select a piece of music, with the application defaulting to your "My Music" folder (but navigable anywhere, including to, say, a CD in the drive). Once selected, it builds a race track from your music track; I'm not clear on the algorithm involved, but "intensity" corresponds to slope. The point here is that the same piece of music creates the same track, so that if you select, say, "It's Better at the Matinee," the track you're presented with will be identical to the track generated by someone else who selects the same song on his own machine.

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