Jeff "I'll stop making games because Frogger is better than Space Giraffe" Minter is getting impatient. According to the bearded animal fancier, Microsoft has been sitting on his latest work, Gridrunner +++, for months, and he's not happy.
"We sent it off to [Microsoft] months ago, but they've just not said anything - we're just waiting for them," explained Minter when asked for a release date. "Basically I'm going to carry on with the PC version of it if I don't hear from them soon, because they're just sitting on the demo we sent them three or four months ago. We haven't heard a thing."
It might have something to do with the fact that Space Giraffe was a flop, something which Minter naturally blames on Xbox Live: "The thing with Xbox Live is that you have to basically get a lot done in the first couple of weeks, then the game goes into a bit of obscurity after that.
"We actually had some very favorable reviews of Space Giraffe, and if you look around, most of them aren't bad. It's just most of them came out too late, and by the time the better reviews came out, the game was already off the front page [of Xbox Live]. So it was just a bit spoiled for us, really."
I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that the game was confusing and likely drove off many clueless buyers with its incessent lights and endless braying. Nothing like that at all.
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10:54 AM on 12.16.2008
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Personally I still hated the demo, though, so never bought the thing.
Of all the games that were released last year, Space Giraffe was probably the one I looked forward to the most, but was the one I was also most disappointed in. I had trouble with the controls... I had trouble following what I was doing as the levels progressed. Overall, it wasn't a game that I wanted to play beyond a few tries.
That doesn't mean it's a bad game. But it turned out much different than I would have imagined.
Also, I really don't understand the comparison or grudge that Frogger sold better. Frogger is a KNOWN entity, that has SIMPLE gameplay, and appeals to anyone who played the game in arcades. Space Giraffe on the otherhand is like Tempest on LSD, but without the simple controls and gameplay.
I really have a lot of respect for Jeff Minter, and would like to see more titles from him, but I'm also hoping that he makes something a little more accessible.
They're shitting on it whiping their ass with it and flushing down the toliet to Join Yaris.
Jeff Minter is a talentless Hack
Anyways, can't wait to check out this one.
Good to hear it's coming to PC... and since Space Giraffe is being ported, too, my 360 going RROD earlier this year doesn't seem so bad after all. :)
(I'll still miss playing EDF; but oh well..)