PSN's new abstract racing game 'Dyad' grabs our attention

by JC Fletcher on Jun 20th 2011 2:30PM

So you've just devoured both PixelJunk Racers games and Art Style: Light Trax. Where do you go now for the next experience in the suddenly-now-a-genre field of abstract racing? Developer ][ Games is working on the next entry in that nascent genre, Dyad, a downloadable game for PS3.

Dyad uses a combo-based system to build speed, instead of simply forcing the player to find a racing line. You must "interact with your enemies in unique and varying ways in order to gain speed," and said interaction seems to involve grabbing onto enemies and then slingshotting yourself from them.

Maybe we're not 100% clear on the concept, but we're pretty sure watching these glowing shapes speed down a tube of light has thoroughly hypnotized us. Watch the video for yourself after the break.

Source: PlayStation Blog

Tags: dyad, playstation, ps3, psn, right-square-bracket-left-square-bracket, rsblsb

Reader Comments (26)

Like the music. I have a feeling I would fall asleep trying to play this.

@Dance Mofo 6955. He was doing the music for Fez, but was mysteriously replaced by Disasterpeace. Then he showed up on this game.

Oh man is that 3d? Because my head might explode.

I haven't played frequency, but this game reminds me of it. I might have thought it was a sequel to Frequency if I hadn't saw the title.

@Slayer15

Your post reminds me of a post I never read before.

I played the really early beta of this at Fan Expo last year! It was a lot of fun. It was on a PC, though. The developer's wife was explaining the concept to me; in the later levels you travel so fast that time is warping around you and you can't even tell if you're going forward or backward. Really mind blowing. I hope it comes out for PC!

Kind of looks like Wipeout.

@Faceless Troll
He mentioned Wipeout as one of his favourite racing games when he announced it on the PS blog

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/06/20/introducing-dyad-for-psn

wow thats crazy i think i almost had a seizure just staring at that video.
although i can see this game looking amazing in 3d.

Seems like same feel as Rez, which isn't a bad thing.

Yup, I can see this melting my eyeballs out of my sockets in HD.

What was the 90s game with a similar flying perspective? Similar to Life Force, but stuff came at you from the center of the screen. Seemed like every arcade had it.

@ValiantEffort I believe you're thinking of Tempest.

@Fausk
Tempest is 1981, though.

Rez and frequency = 2 Top class games, this looks as though it may be within the same realm

It's interesting. I wonder if there was a way to have a game that didn't have a tunnel affect. We always associate progress by moving forward or through something. If we could play with that, I'd definitely be interested in the results.