space giraffe = tempest on steroids

December 15th, 2006 comments stumble it! digg it! by: technabob

Space Giraffe is the latest game from Jeff Minter’s Llamasoft, creator of such classics as Tempest and it’s various derivatives as well as the cool light show visualizations you see in the Xbox 360’s music player.

A video has now surfaced, showing work in progress on the game, and it looks like it could be the first live arcade game to give Geometry Wars a run for its money.

The game play definitely is reminiscent of Minter’s classic Atari vector-based arcade game, combined with the trippy psychedelia that he’s well known for these days. The game is still in development, but should be hitting Xbox Live Arcade some time in 2007.

[via videogamesblogger]

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