Space Giraffe Creator On Wii

Llamasoft's Jeff Minter, the creator of the upcoming Space Giraffe as well as classics such as Unity, has expressed interest in developing for the Wii once he's had his fill of Xbox Live.

Speaking in an interview, Minter said,



If you've played a Minter game in the past you don't need SPOnG to tell you that his gameplay-focused development style would be perfect for the pick-up-and-play ethos of the Wii. As he notes, however, there's still that matter of Space Giraffe to get onto Xbox Live.

So where's he up to with that? It's back from testing and looking good, apparently. “All the results I got coming back from alpha test, all the guys just love it to bits. They're all saying that it's better than Tempest 2000, and it's better than anything that we've done," Minter said.

Discussing Space Giraffe (and reinforcing SPOnG's certainty Minter would fit the Wii like a silky glove) Minter likened it to the classics of yore, saying,



But you know what they say, if a Llama stops walking... That is to say that Minter plans to continue pushing his craft forwards. He has ideas about the way music can interact with a game in the manner of Lumines,



Space Giraffe doesn't have a release date yet, but expect to see it in the not-too-distant future for 400 Microsoft points.

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^{Source: Gamasutra}