Digital Eclipse has introduced Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, the second entry in its interactive ‘Gold Master Series’ documentaries.
Arriving in 2024, the compilation will include 42 video games throughout 8 completely different platforms developed by Llamasoft and Jeff Minter. Classics akin to Sheep In Space, Andes Attack, Matrix, Metagalactic Llamas Battle on the Edge of Time, Hellgate, and Laser Zone will all be included, along with a Digital Eclipse-developed remaster of Gridrunner.
Not solely that however Attack of the Mutant Camels may also be included and totally playable. The specific significance of this one is that it was initially deliberate for the Konix Multisystem, a online game system that was in the end cancelled earlier than it was ever launched, thus making this the primary occasion the sport will likely be playable to the general public.
Much like Atari 50 and The Making of Karateka, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story will likely be crammed to the rafters with classic photographs, design paperwork, and interviews to present customers a complete historical past of one of many UK’s most iconic builders.
Here’s a quick glimpse at what Digital Eclipse itself has to say:
Gridrunner. Revenge of the Mutant Camels. Tempest 2000. Llamatron. In the British gaming universe of the 80s and 90s, no person made video games like Jeff Minter. Now, in a brand new interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse, you possibly can play the historical past of one of many weirdest, wildest recreation builders to ever exist – a person who liked shooters and sheep, lasers and llamas.
Journey again in time to an period of cassette tapes, photocopied zines, and README.TXT. An period by which a child with a Commodore VIC-20 and goals of radioactive sheep may change into certainly one of Britain’s best-known recreation makers. A digital museum of design paperwork, playable video games, and all-new video options inform the fascinating story of a real impartial recreation designer.
We’ll have extra data on the discharge date for Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story as quickly as we hear extra.
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