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Audiosurf cover artvsPac-Man 256 cover art

AudiosurfvsPac-Man 256

Audiosurf leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Pac-Man 256 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
AudiosurfPac-Man 256

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Pac-Man 256 leans harder on variance: power-up and maze-hazard randomness

Optimization4 vs 3

Audiosurf leans harder on optimization: Block-matching color strategy learnable per song.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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Pac-Man 256