Unity Preview - Jeff Minter's Latest Trip?

Posted by simoniker on Friday May 30, 2003 @08:31PM from the llama-drama dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a new preview of the abstract Gamecube shoot-em-up, Unity, over at TotalVideoGames.Com. Unity is being created by the infamous Jeff Minter at his one-man ungulate-loving Welsh development house, Llamasoft - Minter is especially well-known for his psychedelic shooter remakes like Tempest 2000 and his interactive VLM ('virtual light machine') programs for the Atari Jaguar and the ill-fated Nuon. Fortunately, Unity is being made for a non-dead platform, and has help and backing from Peter 'Populous/Black+White' Molyneux's company Lionhead. On a related note, iainsimons points to a rare public appearance by Minter to talk about Unity - at an Indian restaurant in Nottingham, UK, no less. We hope there's no llama curry on the menu.

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Nuon - Pure Minter Yak! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-31 02:43 · Score: 2, Interesting

I still use my Nuon DVD player everyday. There's something fun about having a DVD player with Jeff Minter code built into the chip.
The Nuon is an amazing chill-out box. The VLM is built-in, and (IMHO) much trippier and fluid than the Jaguar version (and it's got joystick control! That is, if you can find a Nuon joystick!)
It's also got some great homebrew stuff:
- Bomb by Andreas Binner (a very fun, cartoonish Bombuzal clone)
-several whacked out apps by Tim Prezzano (Ambient Monsters! A strange underwater journey, and an Atart2600 pacman port)
- and some future stuff by Skah_T that looks amazing.
Screens at http://www.nuon-dome.com/download.html
It looks like Unity will finally allow the Gamecube to surpass the Nuon as the ultimate chill-box!! Sweeeeet..