Wow... Rez I never new that existed. I like this quote from a review I checked out "if you like a more 'spiritual' feeling in your shoot em ups, this will impress you and suck you in like a giant brain-hoover" That's really kind of spooky because as a kid playing R-type2 and xenon2 way back on the amiga I wanted musical weapons so bad I could see the potential back then. Sound that kills and riffs for each weapon. Weapons that exploded into smaller riffs that worked as music. I'm gonna check that out on rental. My first computer program I wrote a text based racing game.. it was pants but I could see computers had so much potential.

Maybe 15 years from now I will be checking out some audio only game. Rez has given me hope... Thanks.

Music track by Orbital Phylosophy by Numbers... excellent start to the track and the source of inspiration for looping musical menu's. The vocals are your options and choices. You can select the choices as they are presented to you by a simple voice command 'access'. The vocals fade to music after two loops then only loop again occassionally never too often so as to become annoying and you can change this anyway to suit your ability to remember. You can have the vocal options fade back in any time there is just music playing by issuing the voice command 'repeat'. Will this work? Depends on the syle of the game. FPS not a chance but this game isn't anythink like FPS... it's a game like X that will build slowly but in your head using your imagination. From nothing in the begining it will eventually fill your brain like having to think 9 moves ahead in a game of chess. Like all good chess games AI can step in so if your not in the mood it will play itself and you can just enjoy an audio experience.

I see indirect control by accessing and changing the AI behaviour of the 'entities' that inhabit the universe collecting AI script from different parts of the universe assimilating and compiling new AI. In the begining there isn't much... there is space and there are strange musical noises like some artist has actually used recording from space radio telescopes to make planet music I read. That's a cool begining to my game. You can investigate each noise focusing on different musical sounds. Sounds are like locations and the voice command 'focus' changes your direction. Geting there takes time and traveling is musical and different directions in £D space have different audio qualities. £D doen't work on a 2D screen yo end up almost ignoring the Z dimension and playing the likes of homeworld almost as you would any other RTS title. Anyway you can navigate so you can explore and you can discover and you know which diection you are headed and probably what speed... information garbled at first materialises at each location. Statistical data start to flow and brain starts to hoover up facts thinking 1 chess move ahead brain engaged and memory loading. Planets, moons, solar systems sythesised by vocals using fractal mathematics or some other clever techniques to create the illusion of an infinate universe. Fractal maths right... that's how Elite had galaxies in 32k RAM and something like 6000 named planets per galaxy.

That's all I can think right now.