XBLA: Space Giraffe Alpha testing stage
Jeff Minter, gaming legend (Tempest 2000,Attack of the Mutant Camels, Llamatron, and the Xbox 360 media visualization.. thing), has posted on his blog about his up coming XBLA game Space Giraffe.
Space Giraffe is "to Tempest what Llamatron was to Robotron", which means, basicly, Tempest ....on acid!
Jeff posted on the blog:
I'm really loving playing it. The last couple of nights we've had full on sessions on the big plasma and it just looks *lovely*. And it's wonderfully shooty, you get to blow a lot of stuff up very prettily without it being forbiddingly difficult, once you get your head round a couple of key concepts that make it not-just-Tempest-y :). I'm only at level 32 now, plenty of time to make the later levels really hard if I want to, plenty of scope for challenging new enemy types, but I want at least these early levels to be a nice fat slice of sweet gaming cake that *everyone* can sink their teeth into once they get the gist. And I think I've got that. It's really nice.
The game has been sent to MS HQ for testing and to get the "green light" to finish the game. Jeff's previous game Unity, for the GameCube (a REZ type game) was cancelled after a long development period, lets hope this does not happen again.
