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So it’s been picked up on the indie gaming sites and beyond that Jeff Minter is working on a new game. I thought this was interesting in as much as the guy is an interesting character and I respect his seniority and work in the industry. Also, talking with some some other programmers around the office I heard some strange rumors when he was submitting early builds of neon to our group.

Rumor #1: There were some llamas that popped up and we made him take them out. Rumor #2: There are still llama shapped buffers/backplanes used in the visualizer.

So tonight I followed a jump to his blog where he posted some test particle screenshots. These shots came out before the vids that clearly show he’s doing a very tempest-like game. Now if you go and read the comments a fellow going by the name alanc5 asks him if he’s just doing another tempest clone and Jeff flies off the handle. Alan has posted some retorts on his blog. I feel that Minter could have handled this much better than he did. Luckily nobody knows or cares about any of the stuff I’m working on so I will likely not have to prove that out ;)

Jeff is doing another tempest-y type thing which is boring but fine really yet he never did admit the guy called him out on it before he even showed off the game play. Alan might apparently have a history of goating Minter but at least he doesn’t back down even when the whole yakyak forums come crashing down on him. I feel kinda bad for the guy.