Space Giraffe gets closer to Xbox Live Arcade release

James Orry Updated on by

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According to a recent post on the developer’s blog, Space Giraffe should be submitted to Microsoft today in alpha form – a critical stage in the game’s progress.

We’re going for an alpha release to MS on Wednesday, then as soon as possible after to our alpha team, at which point I’ll get a lot more feedback which I am looking forward to,” reads the blog post. “The release to MS is a little bit scary because we effectively get the go/no go for the whole thing on this submission, but damn me if it doesn’t look gorgeous and I think it plays really nicely so I would be very surprised if we have any problems there.

For those unfamiliar with Space Giraffe, the game has been created using an enhanced version of the Neon Xbox 360 light synthesizer visualisation software built into the console. Gameplay is kind of hard to describe but it appears to be very much in the same camp as the old-skool classic Tempest.