Jeff Minter on X360

[Vandenh]

Looks like Microsoft is doing everything right. The one and only Jeff Minter apparently has made the "light synthesiser" for X360. Check out the Llamasoft website (http://llamasoft.co.uk/neon.php) for some screens and movies.Neon can run purely off audio input or from up to four joypads, each controlling a different display element with incredible ease and precision and generating hypnotic, multi-layered end results that are way ahead of every other piece of audio visualisation software available.
This is just great news for me personally. I am a big fan of anything Jeff does and it virtually guarantees me buying a 360. Imagine all those parties you could organise while projecting this lightshow on some walls. Those movies look great... way beyond anything media players do now.

[manu_pkp]

BUT... Insert Credit said it the best:

"Ask not for whom the bell tolls, Microsoft - it tolls for thee, not me. Jeff Minter, obsessively loved by fans of quirky llama-based games, is apparently making a Virtual Light Machine, a winamp visualization-like program (naturally predating winamp) that syncs trippy visuals with music played, for the Xbox 360. While exciting to those that play games, Microsoft has reason to be concerned. Take note of the two previous consoles to feature a VLM from Minter: The Jaguar. The Nuon. Nintendo and Lionhead Studios were so afraid that Minter's game Unity would bankrupt both companies, that they scrapped it during development. Microsoft's time is limited, so get your 360 before it becomes a collector's item!"

[Nath5000]

BUT... Insert Credit said it the best:

"Ask not for whom the bell tolls, Microsoft - it tolls for thee, not me. Jeff Minter, obsessively loved by fans of quirky llama-based games, is apparently making a Virtual Light Machine, a winamp visualization-like program (naturally predating winamp) that syncs trippy visuals with music played, for the Xbox 360. While exciting to those that play games, Microsoft has reason to be concerned. Take note of the two previous consoles to feature a VLM from Minter: The Jaguar. The Nuon. Nintendo and Lionhead Studios were so afraid that Minter's game Unity would bankrupt both companies, that they scrapped it during development. Microsoft's time is limited, so get your 360 before it becomes a collector's item!"


huh? I dont get it.

[Carnifex]

The quote says that if the VLM is made for the 360 the console is teh d00m3d, since that's happened on previous ones. A joke using superstition. I hope...
What I don't get is how a man obsessed with llamas (maybe it's a fetish) can get so many fans.

[MosBen]

I mean, I'm not quite and expert, but was the visualizer really what bankrupted the Jaguar? I've never even heard of the Nuon, so that can't be a good sign for that console. It just seems to me that there's got to be a huge differences, visualizer aside, between those two consoles and the 360.

[B_Money]

I mean, I'm not quite and expert, but was the visualizer really what bankrupted the Jaguar? I've never even heard of the Nuon, so that can't be a good sign for that console. It just seems to me that there's got to be a huge differences, visualizer aside, between those two consoles and the 360.

Yes, the Jaguar really failed because it had a visualized. Nothing to do with the lack of game support or bad business descisions by Atari. It's all because of the little dancing lights when you use it to listen to music.

[snubber]

Wow. People just don't get sarcasm.

[Sion]

Yes, the Jaguar really failed because it had a visualized. Nothing to do with the lack of game support or bad business descisions by Atari. It's all because of the little dancing lights when you use it to listen to music.


Good job *golf clap*

[mister_slim]

Don't forget that Rez killed the DC, Electroplankton killed the DS, and Lumines killed the PSP.

[LilAbner]

I *loved* Minter's work on the Nuon. Heh.