Jeff Minter to stop making games due to poor Space Giraffe sales?
Jeff Minter, founder of software studio Llamasoft and most known for llamas-laden shoot ’em ups, just posted a short update over at his personal blog detailing his frustrations about the fans’ reactions to Space Giraffe.
The game has been released on Microsoft‘s Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA service) for a couple of months now but the current sales state and reception are not what Minter had in mind when he first came up with Space Giraffe. More on this after the jump!
Jeff Minter, founder of software studio Llamasoft and most known for llamas-laden shoot ’em ups, just posted a short update over at his personal blog detailing his frustrations about the fans’ reactions to Space Giraffe.
The game has been released on Microsoft‘s Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA service) for a couple of months now but the current sales state and reception are not what Minter had in mind when he first came up with Space Giraffe. He said:
Not seeing a lot of reason to continue even trying to make games, at this point, when a remake of Frogger, one of the worst games in the history of old arcade games, can outsell Space Giraffe that we put so much love and effort into, by more than ten to one, in one week.
OK, we get the message. All you want on that channel is remakes of old, shite arcade games and crap you vaguely remember playing on your Amiga. We’ll shut up trying to do anything new then. Sorry for even trying.
Prior to this, it was revealed back in October that Jeff Minter is currently re-designing GridRunner for release on XBLA as well. We are quite uncertain if this latest development will affect other Minter’s projects.
Via Stinky Goat
