Geometry Wars Evolved

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In Geometry Wars, you’re a bedazzled spaceship flying in an outer-space graphical plane (with the cheesiest techno as your theme music), spraying deadly Skittles at the geometric Jawbreakers trying to destroy you. As the game progresses, the enemies get faster, more vivid, and stick to you like sugar. Every kill adds to your score, and as the score rises, so does the caliber of your firepower. By the time you get to the 100,000-point mile marker, the screen is a disarray of colorful distractions, increasing the difficulty of homing in on any single object. It’s like taking acid during astronomy class. – C.B.

This article appears in June 16 • 2006.

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James graduated from Columbia University in 2000 and moved to Austin a year later. Ever since, he has followed the arts and video game scene in ATX, editing and writing stories for the Chronicle along the way. Over his more than 20 years with the paper he has climbed the "corporate" ladder from lowly intern to managing editor.