''Audioshield'' is a 2016

music video game A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs. Music video games may take a ...

created by Dylan Fitterer for the

HTC Vive HTC Vive is a line of Virtual reality, virtual and mixed reality Virtual reality headset, headsets produced by HTC, HTC Corporation. The brand currently encompasses headsets designed for use with Personal computer, personal computers as well a ...

. The game generates levels based on music supplied by the player. In the game, the player blocks incoming notes with a shield of a matching color. ''Audioshield'' received mixed responses for its gameplay.

Gameplay

The player uses the HTC Vive's handheld motion sensing controls to operate two shields, colored blue and orange. The player uses these shields to block incoming orbs of the corresponding color. Sometimes the player must block purple orbs by holding both of the shields together. The level generation is done in a similar way to Fitterer's previous

Audiosurf ''Audiosurf'' is a 2008 music-based puzzle video game created by Invisible Handlebar, a company founded by Dylan Fitterer. Its track-style stages visually mimic the music the player chooses, while the player races across several lanes collecting ...

series. The user supplies the song, and the game generates a series of orbs to match the beat of the song. Songs can be stored locally, and they could run through YouTube Streaming before YouTube blocked this feature as it violated its license policy.

Reception

Metacritic Metacritic is an American website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created ...

, ''Audioshield'' received a "generally favorable" score of 81 based on five critics. Some praised ''Audioshield'' for its innovative approach to the music game genre, while others opined that the game lacked replayability, even with a large variety of songs.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://audio-shield.com/ 2016 video games HTC Vive games Indie games Music video games Single-player video games Video games developed in the United States Windows games