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Jeff Minter Xbox 360 interview
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Kleegamefan
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I agree.......
Minter, unlike Molyneaux, does not try to make himself overrated. He's done great stuff in the past and, no matter what you say about him, is quite a genius coder.
Gridrunner++, a revamp of an old Speccy Llamasoft game, is a fantastic little thing and well worth a try. It'd be ace on the DS.
Gridrunner++, a revamp of an old Speccy Llamasoft game, is a fantastic little thing and well worth a try. It'd be ace on the DS.
ToyMachine228
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I still have the Unity gameplay demo video on my computer...NEVER FORGET.
Apharmd Battler
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Thanks for the link!
Kleegamefan
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VerTiGo said:
Over-rated by whom?
There is some buzz by longtime gamers when he speaks...but it's not like we go gaga. I've heard he's a great programmer. I really like Tempest...but other than I respect him for being a prominent figure in the industry. Few people have accomplished what he has. What I'm saying is that he deserves all the respect that he gets. On the other hand...I don't see anyone putting him on a pedastel.
Hitler Stole My Potato
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etiolate said:
You make me want to go out and buy another Xbox just for the hell of it.
Ok maybe I am not seeing something, but that video looks just like my windows media player visualization. What's so special about this again? Are we supposed to sit in front of the screen and stare at that stuff? Because unless that comes with 2 or 3 hits of acid, it just doesn't do anything for me.
Pudding Tame
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jimbo said:
Dude, it's built into the 360 as a nice little extra, so why all the hate? Use it or don't. I think it would be a nice way to unwind after a rough day at work, sit in the recliner listen to some relaxing music streaming from my PC, watching the VLM for a few minutes. It's also something nice to put on the TV when you have a party.
Jeff Minters a genius - he goes out with his chaps and gets a bit of curry and beer, goes home to his farm in Wales to chill out with his pets in the beautiful countryside, sleeps a little, wakes up at 2am, codes until the sun rises, goes to sleep again, repeat it all the next day.
Hes basically a coding and mathematical monster compared to the atrocity of Trevor McFur and other horrible early Jaguar games Jeffs games were a masterpiece of pixel pushing and he deserves all the respect he gets.
There are few people in the world on his level, who can sit down and bang out a whole game from Start screen to High Score screen in a weekend on an unfamiliar architecture. So the difference between his games and others is his ability to single handedly create something which is not only unique, but also includes a level of polish and hand crafted magic which is much too rare in games these days.
Hes basically a coding and mathematical monster compared to the atrocity of Trevor McFur and other horrible early Jaguar games Jeffs games were a masterpiece of pixel pushing and he deserves all the respect he gets.
There are few people in the world on his level, who can sit down and bang out a whole game from Start screen to High Score screen in a weekend on an unfamiliar architecture. So the difference between his games and others is his ability to single handedly create something which is not only unique, but also includes a level of polish and hand crafted magic which is much too rare in games these days.
jimbo said:
If you actually read the interview you'd see that it's not just a passive show, users can interact with Neon with all four controllers, each controller modifying different layers (whatever those are). And it seems to be more than just simple manipulators as he specifies the use of many buttons on the controller. It's not worth $50 by itself by any means, but that's why it's coming bundled with the system and makes for a nice little extra.
It sounds half VJ software, half visualiser, and as much about manipulating the visuals in realtime as watching them.
Interesting that Unity had a similar thing built-in as well, and that they once took a GC to a club in London and used it to do the visuals
Atleast something good has come out of the whole Unity fiasco.
Interesting that Unity had a similar thing built-in as well, and that they once took a GC to a club in London and used it to do the visuals
Atleast something good has come out of the whole Unity fiasco.
People should do some research!
It's his 8-bit games that made him a legend. Nearly everything he did had really interesting ideas, and things you hadn't seen before - Hellgate, Ancipital and Iridis Alpha especially. His games were some of the most experimental you could get back then.
He'd earned his stripes far before his 'remixes' of Tempest and Defender.
It's his 8-bit games that made him a legend. Nearly everything he did had really interesting ideas, and things you hadn't seen before - Hellgate, Ancipital and Iridis Alpha especially. His games were some of the most experimental you could get back then.
He'd earned his stripes far before his 'remixes' of Tempest and Defender.
Beer Monkey
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Tell me the name of the guys who did the remixes of Battlezone, Centipede, Pong, Frogger, et al.
Minter can do some great games, even if they aren't always wholly original. And sometimes he misses the mark.
I think there's a decent shot that we'll see some great psychedelic games from him in the future, and if some are derivative, I could care less.
And the light show is free, so no bitching.
Stinkles said:
How many of his games did you play then? Cos a lot of his 8-bit stuff is pretty unique, and most of his games included very interesting ideas for the time - controlling 2 or 4 ships at once in a shoot 'em up by separating horizontal/vertical movement, simultaneous splitscreen control, the use of the sides of the screen in Ancipital etc. Considering the limitations of the 8-bit machines, he was very experimental and showed a really good understanding of what makes a good game. Anciptal, Hover Bovver, Iridis Alpha, Hellgate, Laser Zone, Hellgate ... all very interesting games for their time. And even his games like Gridrunner and Sheep In Space which were directly inspired by the arcade games of the time still managed to introduce their own ideas into the mix.
And Attack Of The Mutant Camels owed more to Empire Strikes Back on the VCS than it did Defender
DJ Sl4m said:
The man is not overrated, he's one of the originals of the UK games industry. And it's not really surprising that he hasn't adapted to an industry where the average game has a huge team and a huge budget behind it when he started in a time when you did everything your self.
If I was him I'd probably stick to light synths as well. Atleast that is something still do-able by himself, and he can do what he wants with it.
I played almost everything he ever did, but again, GAF noise drowned out the point - he's FAMOUS for ripping off Defender, not for his quirky control schemes. And his innovative games, while cool at first, didn't stand the test of time at all - they were experimental and neat, but mostly too experimental.
Stinkles said:
It was a piss-take version of Empire Strikes Back, not a rip-off of Defender!
He got famous for making a load of offbeat games that featured excessive amounts of animals in them. You may not think they've held up, that's your opinion. I happen to think those games had a lot of interesting ideas in them, and there was no one else doing things like he was at the time.
That's as good a reason to be famous as any in my books. Shouldn't you be on Archer Maclean's case or something?
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