Catching Up With Jeff Minter 32
Gamasutra's Brandon Sheffield has a nice interview up today with Jeff Minter, 50% of the indie gaming force that is Llamasoft. He was the creative force behind the visualization for the Xbox 360, and is currently working on the title Space Giraffe for Live Arcade. They touch on Minter's work ethic, past projects, and a canceled GameCube project that never quite made it out the door. They also, of course, discuss Minter's plans for the future: "One thing I would like to explore in the future is making music more involved with the game, so that the type of music you put on would determine how the level played. Some music might create a more chilled level, whereas heavy metal and heavy techno might be more intense. I've got so many ideas, but we can't do them all on the first outing."
music is a great idea (Score:1, Funny)
What happens when you play some Barry Manilow? Does the toon just curl up and die?
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I think you're confusing Barry Manilow and Barry White. Well, I seriously hope you're confusing them.
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The original poster was correct.
That will teach me to RTFC before I post (mind you, this is slash...)
And when... (Score:1, Interesting)
Doesn't it work the other way around? (Score:1)
Doesn't it work better the other way around, where the pros sync the music to the action?
Re:Doesn't it work the other way around? (Score:5, Interesting)
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ITYM Nuon. Anyway who cares if the Jaguar overall was a flop? I have Tempest 2000 and a hacked spinner controller, I can quite happily let the two become permanently fused to my Jaguar.
Too many ideas... (Score:4, Interesting)
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For instance, nowadays it's okay to be a total dick, whereas back in the day, geeks didn't generally talk shit about people they've never met.
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Plus he's releasing the damn thing on XBLA arcade, where half the point is to have not moved on!
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Hey Jeff, say hi to Ben for me (Score:2)
I owe him 100 quid too
Last bloke I owed money to died so I'm hoping that's not a pattern
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Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy... (Score:2)
...stole way too much of my childhood.
Where's Jack Thompson when you really need him?
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Blending music into games (Score:1)
A more recent example was Rez, which came out on Dreamcast which too relegated it to cult status, and the PS2 version is very rare considering how high the demand for the game remains. Music didn't change the gamepl [wikipedia.org]
Been done (sort of) (Score:1)
Jeff Who? (Score:1, Flamebait)
if anything, was that it said "A Game by Jeff Minter" on the title screen, which was unusual for the day (since credits were not given then).
Otherwise the game was wholly unremarkable.
With all the truly revolutionary games which have been written over the years, why on earth is the very average Mr. Minter acknowledged?
This isn't flamebait. I want to understand why we see
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The Gnu Logo (Score:2)
The GNU Logo [wikimedia.org]?
Suuuure... (Score:1)
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B) Space Giraffe is going to be released within a matter of weeks. His blog and others have vid of the beta working, details of the main code being done, just more levels being added, and the code has been in M$s hands for a month now. (And that info is all available from the wiki link above too)
A Unique Fellow (Score:1)
I did get a signed Tempest 2000 Soundtrack CD out of it as I broke several traffic laws to make sure he didn't miss his plane.