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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Aleks Krotoski

Jeff Minter and Lionhead pull the Unity plug

Famed independent developer Jeff Minter has announced that the experimental game Unity, being developed in conjunction with UK power developer Lionhead, has been cancelled.

Although undoubtedly ambitious, and probably OK'd at a time when the industry was at a fiscal high, the game's blend of interactivity, colour and trippy graphics would have provided a unique island of creativity in a miasma of (worthy) sequel releases.

While there are other tremendous software titles which shriek unique (Katamara Damacy, WarioWare, Rez, Vib Ribbon), most of them are Japanese. Where's the UK's indie software spirit?

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