People that listen to the podcast know about my love for Space Giraffe. (What??? You’re not listening? Shame on you)

Anyway, Jeff Minter gave us Tempest and Space Giraffe and now he’s working on his next project, GridRunner++.

Sweetness

If you’re not familiar with GridRunner, you can check out a PC or Mac version at Llamasoft.

Work-wise, I’m now into the redesign of GR++ for XBLA. I already have it running modified for the different aspect ratio and working off the x360 pad as opposed to the mouse, and I’m changing and extending the gameplay; it’ll be a much more involved game than the PC-only predecessor.

I’m getting all the gameplay working first then I’ll overhaul the graphics; we’ll likely go for algo generated 3D shapes rather than the hand-drawn sprites of the PC original.