Remember this?
Well they’re making a game out of it
http://www.dejobaan.com/aaaaa/
Looks fun. And the name is sure to make it first in all the listings.
Didn’t we do all this in Pilotwings 64?
It seems like the sort of thing you’d buy at Wal-Mart for $19.99.
This is out on Steam now for $15 (edit: and Impulse for $14.25, too), with a demo on both through Steam and at their site above (apparently it’s not available on Steam in Europe).
It’s pretty much what you saw in the teaser videos – jump off a building and try to land at the bottom, scoring as much as you can along the way by ‘hugging’ and ‘kissing’ buildings (get near them once to tag it for a ‘kiss’, but stay close to it for a sustained period for a series of ‘hugs’), hitting glass plates, flipping off protesters, and spraying graffiti (though I don’t think I’ve gotten to the latter two yet). It’s all about maximizing your score by trying to find the best routes and taking appropriate risks (swing wildly about and you can reach more buildings and scoring spots, but you’re more likely to bounce or crash).
There’s been a decent variety to the levels so far, with some taking place on a mountain as well, where you have to make sure you keep enough lateral momentum not to crash into the mountainside while still keeping close enough to ‘hug’ it. They can get fairly hard too, with some taking me numerous attempts just to land safely at all, or only scoring one or two stars when I thought I’d done fairly well.
There’s also some kind of surreal dystopian twist to the world it takes place in, seen through things like news updates at the level select screen (reported by the most disinterested DJ ever) and ‘meditations’ you unlock, but that’s just background flavour so far.
Steam has this on sale for $7.49 for next couple days. It got really good reviews.