Mutant camels, intergalactic llamas and the world's first space sheep all indicate the presence of Jeff "The Yak" Minter, a games programmer who hacked his first code on a Commodore Pet, circa 1979. He's now working on Space Giraffe for Xbox Live Arcade. This looks quite a lot like an enhanced Tempest, but you need to play it differently....
So why mention him here? He's the subject of a six-page interview at Gamasutra.
This covers a lot of the same ground as The Hairy One's Google Tech Talk video, given a month ago. The video takes much longer -- an hour -- but you get to watch him play Space Giraffe, which makes much more sense than reading about it. (The action starts half an hour in.)
You also discover that Jeff is rubbish at shooting mutant camels, which will offer some people a little comfort, albeit a couple of decades too late....
