The Zone 2 (Prototype)

In this iteration, the same year the other "thezone" was made, i explored the game "astroids", i wanted the same camera angle, and wanted "music" to be central to the game. In a literal sense. Under the hood everything was automatic, no more manual map making needed! This however limited the genres that you could play. The best music genres where genres with a very clear beat. Genres like pop or classical music would often break the automated process and result in endless spawning of enemies, or the screen would turn nearly black (the enemies light up to the beat and fade in quiet parts of the song)

Overall not very playable. But the idea and mechanics are there. Just not a single drop of fine tuning has been done as the project got abandoned in favor of a real finished project.