"Nine Inch Nails' latest video taps into gaming legend". ^ "Sample the ludic psychedelia of Polybius".
"A video game called Polybius is actually coming out. On December 21st, 2018, the game was released for PC. Īs of November 7, 2018, the game page on the Steam store is live, with a Q4 release date, playable in VR or non-VR.
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Llamasoft later described the version of the game used in the video, a custom build running on the PC with user configurable effect sequencing. On July 13, 2017, industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails released a music video for the song " Less Than", featuring a woman playing Polybius. Runner, Zarch and quite possibly NanoTek Warrior. Minter also cited influence from multiple other classic games including Space Harrier, After Burner, the 1983 vector game Star Wars, S.T.U.N. He said it was instead based on his interest in the ability of video games to induce the psychological state of flow (also called "being in the zone") and his own observations of positive psychological effects as a result of playing VR games, most notably the unreleased VR version of TxK. He later more realistically stated that the game was inspired by the urban legend, but does not attempt to reproduce its alleged gameplay.
In early marketing, co-author Jeff Minter claimed to have been permitted to play the original Polybius arcade machine in a warehouse in Basingstoke. Polybius was added on the PlayStation store on Tuesday May 9, 2017. In 2016, Llamasoft announced a game called Polybius for the PlayStation 4 with support for the PlayStation VR. Although designed as a VR game, Polybius is fully playable in 2D on a standard PlayStation 4, and also includes support for 3D television output. The game's play was designed to minimize virtual reality sickness by the use of continuous forward motion with limited abrupt changes and no interruptions to gameplay other than controlled breaks at the end of each level however, the game does include intense visuals. Llamasoft's Polybius is a fast-paced 3D shooting game with elements of racing games.