Yak wrote:We intend for the game to be cheap as chips too. Probably 400 points. I want lots of people to be able to enjoy it, and to get those extra Neon effects out there.
That's handy; I have 600 points just sitting there waiting to be spent .
rowan wrote:Actually I can't tell what's going on at all. Could you enlighten me?
A triangle things shoots stuff. Signifiers point out were enemies are or where they will be. You shoot enemies. It looks trippy. It wins best everything award at Edge ceremonies. End of.
400 points you say?! Double Awesome - that's just within the "ahh fuck it, let's have some of that then!" category rather than having to think hard about it
Yak wrote:It's intended that it'll be a progression, though, rather than just another iteration of TxK, and so as you move through the game it'll expand from shooting on one edge of a surface to shooting on two edges (a bit like in Laser Zone) and eventually 4 edges, in a manner somewhat akin to Hell Gate.
You've got shares in the manufacturer of the 360's controller, haven't you, you cunt! Hellgate destroyed 2 fucking joysticks in my house, I'll have you know.
Seriously, it's looking (and sounding) more and more ace by the minute.
Simon
"massive retard™", "full of shit™", "tiny bitch™", "retarted™", "a bit of a one trick pony™", "petty™", "simple minded idealistic twat™", "miserable humourless fucker™"
Publication is a way away yet. I'm still only just getting the initial, Tempest-y levels going right now (although we have tech in hand for doing the Laser Zoney ones, I just have to modify the code to create another instance of the Furry Walker Thing and use some of Giles' new surfaces).
What has taken time is getting everything to sit right in Neon. There's a balance between "ohmygoat my eyeballs are falling out!" and "I actually need to see what the heck I'm shooting" which takes time to find. Most games aren't operating so close to that particular threshold, so some research has been needed. It's starting to work now though.
Forgive me if it's an obvious question or if you have answered this before but as Neon is involved will this game be tripping out to the music stored on my 360?
Pounding backgrounds while giving it some Depeche Mode is grabbing me by the balls!
And the 400 points pricing is shrewd! people will just buy because it's so cheap and then you're evil world domination plans are launched!
Llamasoft will topple EA in a few short years...The furry skynet is upon us!
Basically the game is predicated on the Neon engine, so anything we already do with Neon in terms of audioreaction is a given, we can hook it all up so that it responds to whatever you are playing on your ox360 when you play.
In addition we have certain game-originated trigger envelopes that allow us to hook stuff into how you are actually playing.
We hope that the balance between these two groups of external stimuli, and the manner in which they will be hooked up to the parameters that generate the environment, will be satisfying.
Oh fucking aces.... I'm getting a 'lazy one' thinking of this!
GW-RE has reawakened my base 'slaughter' mode gaming of yore so I'm itching to enjoy this!
I'm dribbling for this!
And guessing that this new phase of llamasoft is firing the yak up like he was 20 years ago
A game a year would be teh mutts nutts!
And be happy I'm giving you so long! In the old days I was chomping at the bit a month after getting any of your games!
Seriously tho.... Does all this xbox live arcade bring the early days back to you Jeff? The nature of it just seems to sit well with small one or two man teams bringing out games that were impossible to release even a year ago? People were so quick to knock the big bad Microsoft but I think when it comes to oxbox and the 360 they have been frankly amazing in their methods. The live arcade concept is a stroke of genius and it has brought Llamasoft right back into the games world... I imagine there has probably been some dark days in the past because you arent the kind of person to join a large team working in a cubicle somewhere. And where in todays world does a Llamasoft fit in? Live Arcade is dragging you back where you belong.... doing what you do so well. And Giles being part of the flock as well must really complete the circle as far as your lifelong passion for gaming is concerned....
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