Heart of Neon - a teaser for a film about Llamasoft

[d0kk]

You saw it here first...

http://vimeo.com/310850660

[Rhythm]

Awesome stuff!

[Whiteball]

Very nice indeed.

[TFO]

Nice.
Can’t wait to see the full thing

[gribbles]

Yes. YES. YES!!!

Really looking forward to this. Well played.

[rowan]

That looks great, very nice to see what you're doing after your initial posts a while back

[skip]

Cannot. Fucking. Wait.

Are you okay with this being shared/promoted? I have a retro social media ‘following’ of ~2.5k people that would love to see this (and a website where I can write stuff about it).
Is there an ETA?
Do you need any paraphernalia (as in I have probably one or more hundreds of pages of Lamasoft related stuff from throughout the years that I could scan).

[d0kk]

Cannot. Fucking. Wait.

Are you okay with this being shared/promoted? I have a retro social media ‘following’ of ~2.5k people that would love to see this (and a website where I can write stuff about it).
Is there an ETA?
Do you need any paraphernalia (as in I have probably one or more hundreds of pages of Lamasoft related stuff from throughout the years that I could scan).

Yes, absolutely share and enjoy..! The ETA currently is September. I've been filming and editing off and on since August 2017, with myself as a one-man film crew and post-production crew recording interviews, capturing Jeff & Giles in action, and putting the whole thing together. It's been entirely self-funded so far, so in March I'll need to do a bit of fundraising to get to the finish line making a professionally mastered print of the film for festival screenings, as well as to underwrite some travel to record final interviews with people a bit harder to get to. The Kickstarter campaign will have lots of exclusive merch as an incentive for people to give generously, as well as some other online events where I'll make a complete spectacle of myself in the name of art.

As far as additional materials, I'm always on the look out for scans of reviews of Llamasoft projects (light synth stuff too) - I'll take the bad reviews as well as the good, since a big part of Jeff's story is how his work is not always mainstream and easy to digest. Also I'm especially keen to see the really old classified ads Jeff published back in the really early 8-bit days (much harder to track down).

Anyway, I'll keep everyone on here posted as things progress, and I don't doubt I'll seek your opinions as we get closer to the finish line

Onward and upward..!

[WiteWulf]

You might want to have a chat with Spazhammer, as he’s got contacts at the National Videogame Arcade in Sheffield. I’m sure they’d be interested in showing it somehow.

[RiK]

Really looking forward to this.

For me it was always about the LightSynths rather than the games, back in the 80's when I first met Jeff I even had the ColourSpace logo painted on top of my old TV.

Jeff's 'KML' Macro language in Trip-a-Tron inspired a big part of a special final-year project I did at college called 'LightMage' and years later when chatting to Jeff about it I discovered the rather awesome coincidence that was actually one of the names he'd considered for T-a-T... - Cue Twilight Zone music..

See: http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?p=711952#p711952

And that project was pretty much the reason I got the very first job I applied after graduation, and which I stayed at for 12 years until a near-death experience was the catalyst to me getting out of the rat-race.

So yeah, it's fair to say Jeff's work had a pretty fucking major influence on my life..

[Jamesac]

Looking forward to watching this quite a bit, but do you mind a single critique based on the little I've seen of the trailer?

[jawafour]

I've only just stumbled across this... a film on the gaming life of Jeff and Giles?!?

Sorry if it has already been spoken about, but I couldn't immediately see a thread and it feels like it needs one!

Tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/HeartofNeon1 ... 4979026944

Website: http://www.heartofneon.com/#about-film

Amazing! .

[jawafour]

Oh! Thank you for moving my post to this thread... I hadn't realised that the thread existed :-) .

But... I wonder if it would help if we did mention it in the "main" Bleatings section? As the forum is perhaps quieter than in years past, it may be a bit lost in here? The film looks terrific and it would undoubtedly be of great interest to Llamasoft fans and gaming enthusiasts... lets shout about it!

(Sorry if I appear to be treading on any toes; I am not trying to do so and I only wish to raise awareness of this great project!).

[WiteWulf]

Regulars know to use the "View active topics" feature to see new and updated stuff.

[Harlequin]

Regulars know to use the "View active topics" feature to see new and updated stuff.

We know about it. Not all of us use it.