The Polynomial - Space of the music
Dmytry Lavrov Developer
Dmytry Lavrov Publisher
2010-10-15 Release
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
Mostly Positive
(440 reviews)
The Game includes VR Support
Public Linux Depots:- ThePolynomial-linux-depot [100.84 M]
The Polynomial Update Released
Updates to The Polynomial have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
New features:
- Massive improvements to the music analyzer, now visualizes even better for larger variety of music types.
- New music customization option: use a slider to choose between animation to the beat or animation to the melody (and voice), or any mix of beat and melody. As with any other parameters, the effects are immediately visible, letting you tune it just right for your taste.
- Configurable controller binding
- set up your game controller's sticks and buttons and sliders just the way you like, in Controls panel.
- Enemy flight improved, better flight and attack patterns.
- Enemies collide and bounce off each other.
Fixes:- Fixed crash/hang when adding music files in fullscreen (reported for ATI cards under Windows 7 64-bit).
- Fixed 2 rare crash bugs during gameplay.
- Fixed a bug that caused current playlist not to autosave when appending music from another playlist.
- Fixed continuous asking for restart on some multiple-display setups.
- "Difficulty" announcement active only in level 0 now.
- Numerous game engine improvements for improved performance and stability.
[ 2010-11-26 21:11:00 CET ] [ Original post ] Experience the music in a new way. Feel it pulse around you.
The Polynomial is a 3D space shooter with unique, mathematical scenery that animates to the music. And this is not some boring mathematics. This is fractals. There are worlds to explore, ugly enemies to kill, pretty allies to protect, bonuses to collect, and scores to beat (if you are into this sort of thing). It also includes arena editor and a non-shooting mode in which you can simply explore and rock out to your music. The game comes with 50 minute soundtrack; you can also import your music and playlists or even use the microphone input. There is a great variety of options that you can adjust for your own ultimate visual experience.
Key features:
- Dynamic universe animated to music of your choice or microphone input.
- 50 minutes of original soundtrack.
- Unique 3D graphics and effects.
- Highly configurable visuals, music, and image post-processing.
- Full featured editable music playlist.
- Support for anaglyph 3D glasses and the common 3DTV formats.
- Joystick support.
- Built in arena generator and editor.
- 35 hand-picked arenas.
- 4 music visualizers to choose from.
- Innovative scoring function.
MINIMAL SETUP- OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. fully updated
- Processor: Intel Core 2 1.8GHz. AMD Athlon 2GHz. or betterMemory: 1GB RAM
- Memory: 1GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or better. ATI Radeon HD 2000 series or better. with 256MB video memory (512 MB recommended). Intel HD cards may hang up or have very low framerate.Hard Drive: 100MB
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