Trippy Space Giraffe video is "giraffetastic!" [update 1]

by Ross Miller on Oct 18th 2006 7:58AM

Let's be honest, Jeff Minter's Space Giraffe is nothing more than an updated Tempest 2000 (also Minter's creation), itself a remake of 1981's Tempest. The upcoming XBLA rail shooter brings to mind Geometry Wars and Rez in a big way, and this work-in-progress video includes licensed music and intentional Engrish. There isn't much about Space Giraffe that is original or innovative ... but still it looks like insane fun.

Let none of that stop you from enjoying some ultra-trippy video, set to the tune of Aphex Twin (Warning: NSFW). The YouTube video is pretty shoddy in quality, so we recommend going to Xboxyde for a slightly crisper experience.

"Congraturation! You success! A winner is you! But our giraffe is in another castle!"

[Via Xbox 360 Fanboy]

[Update 1: So, as it turns out, Richard David James has yet to multiply himself through meiosis or any other similar process. Ooopsies, singularity has won.]

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Tags: jeff minter, JeffMinter, Llamasoft, Microsoft, Space-Giraffe, xbla, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (22)

I hope it doesn't look that messy on the big screen...

This looks totally intesting, well it plays anything like Tempest 2000 for the Jaguar it will ROCK!!! Keep the NEW XBLA stuff coming!!!

It's Aphex Twin, not Twins. Richard David James is just one man.

I'm so getting that.

Maybe its because I havn't had my coffee yet, but I think playing that for more than 3 minutes would make me nausious. Oh, and those cliches when you pass a level . . its not realy funny when you do it on purpose. Lines like that are only good when they aren't meant ot be funny. That just sounds realy realy forced.

Why is everything compared to Geometry Wars? I totally hated that game. But on the otherhand, this one looks totally cool.

As hakobus pointed out, he's one genious, not two.

His music saved my life.

Thank you Hakobus for pointing that out, I thought I was gonna be the only one to notice that.

@Awol & Hakobus:
What's the track called, and which album is it from? Haven't really followed his work since 'I Care...' and 'Richard D James', but I like the sound of this one.

Tempest 2000 on the Jaguar is one of the most fun, intense games I have ever played. This one, though, looks quite distracting and hard to play. I hope he includes Tempest 2000 or 3000 as a bonus.

@ElD

It's Milkman on Richard D James. David Firth made a cartoon about it. Kind of an odd choice for a game though.

Is it just me or does that game look too damn confusing. I can't see an enemy bullet or your own bullet. How the hell can u dodge stuff you can't see, its just like millions of rainbows and explosions and god how can anyone see that stuff.

Saying "nothing more than an updated Tempest 2000" makes it sound like a bad thing. Tempest X (or whatever it was called) on PS was one of my favorite games. I can't wait for this to hit!

Girls, keep in mind this game isn't even half done. The sound effects were just added last week and are mostly temp. The music track is definitely temp.

This game will be BAD ASS.

The Youtube video is old. The one on Xboxyde is of a far more complete game. They're totally different, but the post makes it sound like they're the same thing just encoded differently.

Seriously, just delete the reference to Youtube (and Aphex Twin, since he's only in that one).