Heart of Neon - a teaser for a film about Llamasoft

[Rubisco]

Ah! Never saw this so never responded, sorry- The thing I wanted to note is that, at the time, the bits on display were 100% white middle-aged guys.…
… it's still very heavily weighted that way. I'm not looking for an artificially-enforced diversity, but it does kind of stick out when you realize how uniform the people that we've seen are.

I suspect that is Llamasoft's traditional demographic. I would be surprised if more than two or three percent of this forum's membership fell outside of it.

That's no excuse, few gamers of colour could afford a C64 in the 80s because of the hangover from slavery and colonial oppression. I demand that reparations are made and every middle-aged BAME person in the UK can apply for a free C64 and Jeff's back catalogue. Then make a documentary about their experiences.

[Chunk]

Silly question: if you back and the target isn't reached, do you lose your money and not get the Blue Ray?

[Misfit]

Silly question: if you back and the target isn't reached, do you lose your money and not get the Blue Ray?

No.

They only take your money if the target is met.

[Chunk]

Silly question: if you back and the target isn't reached, do you lose your money and not get the Blue Ray?

No.

They only take your money if the target is met.

Great, thanks for that.

Damn though ... so it's not looking like it'll get funded.

[d0kk]

Yeah, the Kickstarter campaign didn't reach its goal, which is fine. It didn't seem impossible when I launched and there was a lot of interest, but there was never enough exposure for the kind of audience traction I needed. Oh well. A win would have meant I could focus on the film knowing everything was funded, but as it stands my fundraising will be on-going while I work on the project at the same time. So the project continues regardless. There's more details at https://wwwheartofneon.com

ANYWAY - the real reason I'm here is I don't know where else to post this question: Does anyone on on here happen to have screengrabs of the old Llamasoft app pages on the Apple App Store back around 2012-ish? I'll take anything. There are images on the internet that were used on the App Store, but I'm really looking for the text from those pages. If anybody has ANYTHING let me know, or shoot me an email. It's a longshot, I know, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

Cheers!

[rowan]

Does anyone know if anything's going on with this lately?

I made a donation some time back but I don't think the value's been updated at heartofneon.com for some time now.

Hope d0kk and everything's OK.

[cj2003]

Good question, I also gave a donation by paypal to keep it going.

I know he’s playing Llamasoft-games on twitch daily and also have a patreon running. Looks like it’s there the updates about progress are found.

Edit: https://www.patreon.com/heartofneon

[d0kk]

Not sure where else to put this. I just came across this photo on Elf Qrin's website.



I'm assuming Elf took the picture, so I'm looking for permission to reproduce this in the film. There's no contact info on the website except for a PGP public key, which... well, may as well be DNA as far as I'm able to parse that usefully. A shrewd disincentive for the casual spammer.

Is Elf on here? Or failing that does anyone reading this know Elf and have a way to get a message to them on my behalf?

[d0kk]

Oh yeah, while I'm here, I encourage people to sign up for the Heart of Neon newsletter. I'm generally awful at maintaining lots of online updates, as evidenced by my absence from YakYak. Apart from Twitter, which I can well appreciate isn't for everyone, I put it all in a newsletter. Posted to your inbox mostly on a weekly basis.

https://www.heartofneon.com/#newsletter. I don't spam, I don't forward contact info to anyone, and your email isn't linked to any other info, so apart from a getting a newsletter signing up won't bring you any grief from me.

I've published over 70 of them at this point. Browsing through the old posts is an interesting read...

fwiw I just recently interviewed Peter Connelly. He recorded it at his end, and the media is just arriving with me via Dropbox today. You heard it here first.

[d0kk]

Not sure where else to put this. I just came across this photo on Elf Qrin's website.

Steve Morton pointed me to the archived Grunting Ox blog, so I know where it was taken now. Does anyone know who took the picture? I'm hoping against hope that there's a higher resolution version of this photo somewhere, because this is in terrible shape. I can make Jeff look a bit better but I can't save the details in the rest of the photo. All that text is forever illegible.

if anyone has the original of this, do let me know

Cheers!

[venusian]

Have you sent Elfqrin a PM on here? His profile says he was last here only a couple of days ago.

[d0kk]

Have you sent Elfqrin a PM on here? His profile says he was last here only a couple of days ago.

done.

[d0kk]

While I'm about it, I need photos or video of the massive Microsoft booth at the 2005 E3 when they launched the Xbox 360. I'll take anything, but what I really need is a photo of the huge screen suspended over the Microsoft floor showing promos + such.

Peter Connelly, EP at Microsoft, is in the film, and he talks about seeing Jeff playing Neon on that screen at E3. In the film that caps the 360 Neon journey. Plus TV screens are a bit of a motif in the film, so to be able to see that particular screen at the booth will be an important moment.

Anybody have any media of the 2005 E3 event? If not, do you perhaps know of someone who does? Any advice you have in that direction will be greatly appreciated!