skorotkiewicz/psycho-odin

PSYCHO is a game that turns any song you own into a playable 3D racing track. Before the ride starts, it listens to the whole song and analyzes its rhythm, spectrum, dynamics, and tempo, then builds a complete closed loop course out of that analysis. Quiet parts of the song become calm climbs in cool colors, while loud, energetic parts become fast descents in hot colors, and the track always loops back smoothly to where it started. Once the track is generated, you race down it, steering with the mouse or keyboard, collecting matching colors to build a score multiplier, dodging hazards, and grabbing boosts for a temporary double score bonus. The background sky also reacts to the music with glowing shapes and rays. Every completed run is saved with your score and time, and the game tracks personal best runs per song. The game is written in the Odin programming language using the raylib graphics library, and supports Linux, macOS, and Windows. It accepts common audio formats including WAV, MP3, OGG, and FLAC. The first time you load a song, the game performs a deeper analysis to build its track, and saves that generated map to a local cache folder based on the song's content, so later plays of the same song start instantly. Installing it involves either using a build tool called just, which handles downloading the Odin compiler automatically, or building directly if you already have Odin and raylib installed. Settings like mouse sensitivity, maximum speed, music volume, and visual effect strength can be adjusted in a configuration file, and most of them can also be changed live during a run with keyboard shortcuts. This is aimed at players who enjoy music-driven arcade games and want a personal, generated racing experience built from their own music library, inspired by the older game AudioSurf.