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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Well it looks like the first images of Jeff Minter's XBLA game is up here (warning, profane language ahead).

I was always held some hope for Unity, and loved the twists and turns it took in development. Ultimatly it was crushed and Minter went to work on the visualisation program that the 360 uses (which is not as shallow/bad as it appears upon first inspection).

The screens look good and I am looking forward to this one now too.
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dessgeega · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:34 pm Post subject:

it looks tempest-like.

i should play tempest 2000 later.
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Mr. Mechanical · Friendly Stranger Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 1276

It looks like Neon (Minter's audio-visualizer app that's on the Xbox 360 dashboard). Well, more like Neon: The Game.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I love the specifics as to why he kept profanity there. XBLA is becoming a very interesting platform all on its own, really.
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ApM · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:50 pm Post subject:

Hover Bovver:

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dessgeega · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:28 pm Post subject:

i just broke 700,000 points in tempest 2000.

holla!
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J.Goodwin · . Joined: 31 Jul 2006 Posts: 297 Location: North Shore, MA

I contend that Neon is a game. Of sorts.
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GSL · Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:02 am Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:03 pm Post subject:

so according to yak the hairy, the game is officially the next iteration of tempest, he just can't call it that because atarigrames owns the copyrights.

new screenshots too!

this . . . sort of makes me want to start to think about considering possibly getting a 360 - maybe.
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Mr. Mechanical · Friendly Stranger Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 1276

I just downloaded the Gridrunner++ demo. It is teh hot sex! Liek omg mate!

But really, yeah. It's awesome. There are only five stages in the demo, but you can warp to world six (and presumably beyond that I hope). I might have to buy the full version if it's not too much.

edit-Actually, I think the demo is just five random levels or something, not the first five. It starts you out on level 2, then the next one after that is 6, so I assume it's a smattering of the overall levels and there aren't any hidden warps in the game. And here I thought I'd found something all on my own. ;_;

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:27 pm Post subject:

pro-tip: arse on fire edition.
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Mr. Mechanical · Friendly Stranger Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 1276

Oh snaps, many thanks!

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Gridrunner++ gives me a feeling of sensory overload and general bewilderment. It's like a simulator that lets me know what it's like to be my mum playing any videogame ever.

(having said that, I like it a lot.)

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

HOT DAMN!!

highlandcattle · . Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 30

Yeah I'm looking forward to this aswell, I'm just hoping that the 360 drops in price and then that there is some alternative method of playing the damned games because I don't wanna sign up with Xbox live and give money to MS. I never have and I never will!

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

In the UK, the 360 just dropped to £199.

Not like that much matters to me, as I can't afford it as a student, won't have a TV, and tend to wait out for other consoles releases first.

But still, Assassin's Creed has been announced for it, so that's even less of a reason to get a PS3 as far as I'm concerned.
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

hitman + hash eaters = profit????

simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Yes, if either Hitman or the hash eaters could run up walls.

dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

man you should see those hash eaters when they're really going at it

dhex · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:44 pm Post subject:

hassan i sabbah get?
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

oh wait! them stoners are coming to PC as well! I win! Microsoft and Sony do not!

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J.Goodwin · . Joined: 31 Jul 2006 Posts: 297 Location: North Shore, MA

When I first played Hitman (Silent Assassin), I wasn't terribly impressed. Then I figured out that it wasn't an action game or even really a stealth game. Love that series now. Blood Money is a bit unforgiving though (you had more lattitude in previous games when you were going for SA ratings...Blood Money feels like you have to do everything exactly so or you fail, and the game is a lot more punishing than previous installments if you make a mistake, it's actually difficult to impossible to finish stages once you start shooting in a lot of cases).
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

So what would you define it as, puzzle? Strategy?

I'm hoping AC turns out to be a little more PoP than Hitman, but with reduced combat and greater focus on escape.

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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:33 am Post subject:

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Jeff Minter is an inspiring man.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Mr. Mechanical · Friendly Stranger Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 1276

You know Jeff Minter drops a lot of acid. He has to.

A lot.

ApM · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject:

Dude has his own sheep farm.

You have to respect that.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Minter has put a gameplay video up on YouTube.

All it tells me is that the YouTube community is filled with worthless bastards and that it looks dang pretty and fun and I want this game.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Can anyone make out exactly what he is saying? Dess and I were trying to figure it out last night. The most info I got out of it is that at the begining he talks about how you can get Neon (the visualisation program in the 360) like effects out of it. Then at the end he says somehting about how he has to tweak it yet so you don't get over load like towards the end there. He also says something about things being very basic.

All and all, I hardly saw what he was shooting at 80% of the time.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

He's saying that the enemies shown won't be the end result and that shading and such are still at a rough stage. Levels will also be ajusted to avoid overload.

It's true you can't see much, but he is filming the screen itself.
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dessgeega · Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 1:32 am Post subject:

new videos in this thread. yak demonstrates the tutorial stages in one and "rinses" them for points in the other.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

It's become a cliche to say a game is like '(x) on acid' but in the case of Jeff Minter's games it's literally true.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Is there a release date yet?
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"