While 3GHz consoles are being unveiled and multi-million dollar game productions are announced, CEO and Chief Scientist of Nurve Networks LLC, Andre' LaMothe has different plans, a little less mainstream and definitely more low-tech but just as promising for the future of gaming. In an interview to GameGossip.com he revealed his plan to bring game development to the masses. His weapon in order to achieve that is the XGameStation Video Game System development kit. The kit comes with an assembled XGameStation console, a blank, ready-to-use game cartridge, a CD containing all system software and tools necessary to develop for the system, and of course, an extensive eBook that explains how the system was designed and how it works from the ground up. Everything from basic digital logic to computer engineering to circuit board design to operating system kernels and APIs are covered, in precise detail. Never before has such a mammoth collection of knowledge, insight and practical techniques for both hardware and software been concentrated in a single place, with such an accessible entry level. This kit is aimed at everyone from seasoned engineers to absolute electronics newbies.
Yes but what is it?
Like all revolutionary ideas, the XGameStation is equal parts fantasy and reality. On the one hand, it addresses a real problem that has existed for years-- that no hobbyist game programmer or hardware hacker has a unified, inexpensive platform they can actually build, take apart, and own exclusively. On the other hand, it will power a next-generation synergy of hardware, software, imagination and creativity of unparalleled proportions.
Read on to find out what Andre' LaMothe himself had to say about this to GameGossip.com while for those of you that need more detail there is a detailed IRC chat transcript available if you follow the download tab above.
