As you probably know, Nine Inch Nails recently released a 36-track instrumental album under a very flexible business model. I won’t keep you occupied with the details; rather, I’ll throw up a video of me playing through Ghosts, track 9, off of volume I of IV (which has been released for free under Creative Commons), in Audiosurf. I even managed to set the world record for Pro in this run!

This game is called De Blob. According to The Wikipedia: “de Blob was originally developed as a free downloadable game for the Windows PC by eight students studying Game Design & Development at the Utrecht School of the Arts and one student studying Game and Media Technology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.”. I’ll take their word for it, and you should too.
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