Jeff Minter, he of Mutant Camels and Space Giraffe fame, is back with another iPhone title. This one’s called Deflex, and it’s a remake of sorts of Superdeflex, which Minter made in 1982.
Hall of fame video game create Jeff Minter doesn’t make bland games. They’re a festival of old-school graphics and techno music. And he demonstrates his latest, Minotaur Rescue, while wearing a minotaur mask.
That’s because this is a music video as directed by Llamasoft, creators of tripped out, gamer-bewildering titles like Tempest 2000 and Space Giraffe. The song? Electronic musician Tiga’s “Mind Dimension.”
Jeff Minter’s Llamasoft is so very pleased with PC Gamer UK’s 92% review of the PC version of Space Giraffe that they’ve spilled the beans on the release date for their next title, Gridrunner+++.
Llamasoft’s Space Giraffe is, shall we say, one of the more critically divisive Xbox LIVE titles. Its brand of rock-hard psychedelic blasting and crazed art direction splitting gamers into love and hate camps more effectively than Marmite sushi.
It’s been a while since the Space Giraffe kerfluffle where Yak Minter threw a hissy fit in his blog regarding poor scores given to the XBLA psychedelic shooter (and the point where it was compared to Joyce’s Ulysses, but I came across an interesting piece recently that talked about Space Giraffe in reference to (wait for it) a piece of literary theory known as ‘authorial intent.’ The post-structuralist conception is (at least in part) that the critic’s will and opinion always supercedes that of the author. What does this have to do with Space Giraffe? Well, it’s one way to look at why there was such heated discussion over Space Giraffe:
What’s going on here? Something, that’s what. You can find out for yourself on Wednesday, I guess.
