Jeff Minter XBLA Game in dev...

[expletive]

I'm not super excited by this but i figured some might get a kick out of it...

Jeff Minter, the man behind the Xbox 360's music visualiser, and the legendary Tempest series, has revealed on his blog that he will be creating a brand new, visualiser-inspired Xbox 360 Live Arcade game, which will be available later this year for an unknown number of Microsoft Points.

http://www.xequted.com/news/1906/jeff-minter-working-on-new-xbox-live-arcade-game.html

 

[Dural]

It would be cool to see an updated Tempest and Defender on XBLA ala Tempest 2000 and Defender 2000, though I'm not sure who has the rights to those games.

 

[ChryZ]

Why can't I stop imagining the talks between the Microsoft suits and Minter like a scene from "The Big Lebowski"

MS: Are you employed, sir?
Minter: Employed?
MS: You don't go out looking for a job dressed like that? On a weekday?
Minter: Is this a... what day is this?

 

[Farid]

XBLA Llamatron?

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Too much like Geometry Wars I think, unless he goes for a different style. Perhaps a 'Harrier' style into the screen Llamatron?

 

[MrWibble]

Note that Minter was not "the man behind ... the legendary Tempest series." However he was author of several successful remakes/sequels.

 

[Platon]

Why can't I stop imagining the talks between the Microsoft suits and Minter like a scene from "The Big Lebowski"

MS: Are you employed, sir?
Minter: Employed?
MS: You don't go out looking for a job dressed like that? On a weekday?
Minter: Is this a... what day is this?

:smile: ...

 

[Sis]

:smile: ...

Do people have the opinion that Microsoft employees where suits? Because that was the old IBM stereotype. I believe the required dress code for MS folks is polo shirts and dockers.

 

[Platon]

Do people have the opinion that Microsoft employees where suits? Because that was the old IBM stereotype. I believe the required dress code for MS folks is polo shirts and dockers.

Ohh... I am sure I am wrong about MS employees and have a steroetyoe that is not really true. It is just the reference to the Big Lebowski made me actualy smile. What a great movie, and yes I could picture my self that converasation although I "know" that it is most likely wrong...