Gridrunner+++

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Jeff Minter's latest project is a XBOX360 port of Gridrunner++. I can't wait to try it out as I've been a fan of anything Minter does since my Commodore 64 days. He has a recent update on his blog.

But I think things are going well, GR+++ on the ox360 is certainly turning into something that I can say from my own subjective frame of reference seems to be becoming very fun to play. It's taken quite a lot of changes to make it good within that context given the nature of the original GR++ upon which it was based. That was mouse-controlled (and a lot of the game hinged on the precision of that control method) and vertically oriented, now it's widescreen and controlled by two analog sticks. A lot of old stuff has been chucked out and new play mechanics to suit the new controller and environment introduced. My biggest worry was that the difference between the two setups would be so big that there would be no coherent way to evolve one into the other.