Llamasoft does TxK for Sony Vita

[Whiteball]

Really glad that you both seem very happy in your work now with these new toys. It's good too that you can see some real positives in front of you.

[fog]

It certainly sounds like development is the most fun it's been in a while.

Jeff Minter @llamasoft_ox 2h

Dear god I love this system

And the Llamasoft & Sony mutual appreciation continues

Shahid Kamal Ahmad @shahidkamal 2h

Dear God, I love Jeff Minter! @llamasoft_ox

[Jest of EVE]

Working on this is an absolute joy for me at the moment. I know where I want to go, and the hardware is lovely. And I don't have that feeling of "well it's only going to make 50p on the app store at the end of the day" that sucks the joy out of everything. I feel like I've actually got a little space to step back and actually make something beautiful rather than just desperately bang out stuff as fast as I can and that makes all the difference, and makes me want to work harder .

Bloody good news that, let's hope it fills the kettle a few times. Thanks for the interesting replies, fellas.

[Mark]

Great to hear that you're enjoying the process once more. Look forward to seeing it come together.

And I got a Vita last week (lovely piece of kit), so I'm good and ready for it when it ships.

[Governmentyard]

Fucking hell, cheer up lads, eh?

[RiK]

Anyway yeah this Vista thing so far as the really nice feeling of a really fresh thing

[gilesgoat]

Anyway yeah this Vista thing so far as the really nice feeling of a really fresh thing

"Mia vista non essere buona, io confuso Vita con Vista" ...

[PVB]

Test pic (not gameplay!) of the pixel-shatter system:

[tufty]

argle blargle I can't see what's going on! 2/10

<ducks>

[Yak]

actually in real play the screen remains mostly pretty clear. The pixelshatter load in normal play is no heavier than it was in T2K and the playfield remains quite readable. Also the pixelshatter parts come and go quite fast so nothing is obscured for very long. That screenshot was me cranking up a load of stuff as a load test so it's busier than normal. And it took me quite a few captures to actually grab a frame with that much going on in it.

The screenshot utility is actually dead handy as it's very useful to be able to minutely examine a still frame for any tiny oddnesses. And it gives me a nice trail of images throughout development that'll be nice to use on my dev blog to show how things progress.

Maybe I'll put up a little video soon so as to give an idea of what it's like in motion.

[nyarla]

i really like the look so far.. beautifully soft but also really sharp (and even more so on the little vita screen i bet!). lovely

[The ghost of raids past]

Will look even better on a 30 Inch PC Monitor and it wont be supporting the Evil Empire either

[Yak]

Will look even better on a 30 Inch PC Monitor and it wont be supporting the Evil Empire either

I haven't said I'll be doing a Linux version...

[tufty]

Maybe I'll put up a little video soon so as to give an idea of what it's like in motion.

wanty wanty want :)

And I think by "evil empire", he was referring to Sony.

[The ghost of raids past]

Maybe I'll put up a little video soon so as to give an idea of what it's like in motion.

wanty wanty want

And I think by "evil empire", he was referring to Sony.

Indeed I was, Sony are by far the most hostile corporation to their own customers. Thats the problem with having a content producer and a producer of content players in the same house.