Jeff “I’ll stop making games becauseFroggeris better thanSpace Giraffe” Minter is getting impatient. According to the bearded animal fancier, Microsoft has been sitting on his latest work,Gridrunner +++, for months, and he’s not happy.
“We sent it off to [Microsoft] months ago, but they’ve just not said anything – we’re just waiting for them,” explained Minter when asked for a release date. “Basically I’m going to carry on with the PC version of it if I don’t hear from them soon, because they’re just sitting on the demo we sent them three or four months ago. We haven’t heard a thing.”
It might have something to do with the fact thatSpace Giraffewas a flop, something which Minter naturally blames on Xbox Live: “The thing with Xbox Live is that you have to basically get a lot done in the first couple of weeks, then the game goes into a bit of obscurity after that.
“We actually had some very favorable reviews ofSpace Giraffe, and if you look around, most of them aren’t bad. It’s just most of them came out too late, and by the time the better reviews came out, the game was already off the front page [of Xbox Live]. So it was just a bit spoiled for us, really.”
I’m sure it had nothing to do with the fact that the game was confusing and likely drove off many clueless buyers with its incessent lights and endless braying. Nothing like that at all.
