Jeff Minter bringing space giraffes to XBLA

What's with the "C U Next Tuesday" stuff?? I don't understand the random profanity. Does it "fit" into the game somehow?

Oh, inside joke. I see now.

I'm in.

Like that Minter/Molyneux co-prod game Unity, this is destined to be only one thing -- vaporware.

Don't they mean "Good Acid trip"??

Because that looks nothing like a bad one.....

I'm so buying this! I loved Tempest 2000 -- played it on my Jaguar all the time (that and AvP).

You've got to admit, the game looks absolutely intense. Would be nice to get a video of the action before making any assumptions though.

Anyone volunteer to take hallucinogens and find the giraffe for us?

looks more like a good acid trip.

Tempest 2000/3000 got rave reviews. I would love to see what we can come up with on 360...now were is my 360 Rez?

Horse Smegma?

BRILLIANT

Earlier today, purely by coincidence, I had commented on another site how I would love to see Jeff Minter's Tempest 2000 find it's way over to XBLA. Needless to say I'm excited to hear about Space Giraffe. Also wish Unity had made it to market.

"Don't they mean "Good Acid trip"??

Because that looks nothing like a bad one....."

I was going to say the same thing. A bad acid trip would be something like seeing scary shit that freaks you out.

Is that the score up in the corner? If so, bonus points for HUD creativity and integration.

That looks awesome! And according to the man himself, it'll be cheap too, at 400 MS points. Can't wait for this one, definitely one to play whilst intoxicated.

I think that stuff like Space Giraffe, Rez, Geometry Wars and maybe even Electroplankton are the modern equivalents of what used to be called "video games" back in the 70s and early 80s...all these other "games" with pseudo-real-world settings and so forth should be called something else...anyone follow me here?

I thought the same thing as Metaly (#12). If the rest of the game is presented as slick as the score is in the upper left corner, then I'll be a happy camper.

Jeff Minter is the God of acid-twitch games.

God, I can't wait.

ive never understood why people rave about his work so much and this just looks like eyecandy that every1 will say they like to be fashionable.i dont rate it.

Lamatron and Revenge of the Mutant Camels were great on my Atari ST.
The two player Revenge was great fun. You'd get the Lama to mount the Camel (!) and leap through the air blasting everything in sight.
I also remember something about when dead turning into a tombstone which could bounce along mashing things until you grabbed another life (?)

Contrary to Mr. Johnston's utterly baseless assertion above (which he has simply pulled out of thin air aprops of *nothing*, without doing any research as to the state of development of the game or our ambitions for the project) the game is far from being "vapourware"; it will indeed be produced for both XBLA and the PC.

Development is already at a reasonably advanced stage and we forsee no problems at this time in bringing it to a timely conclusion. We are, after all, making a nice, carefree, trippy shooter rather than attempting some mega-epic, and I am having a considerable degree of fun making it }:-).

Fantastic, #21. Loved all your Atari Jaguar work. Any chance we'll be getting some llama love for the Wii?

The game needs some awesome music like Tempest 2000 (Jaguar version) had (and is still one of my favorite features of the game).

Hell, they should re-release Tempest 2000 with the original music but in hi-res.