Influential British developer Jeff Minter, whose four-decade profession spans the likes of Tempest 2000, Polybius, Space Giraffe and Revenge of the Mutant Camels, would be the focus of the following interactive documentary from the parents behind the roundly glorious Making of Karateka and Atari 50.
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story will hint Minter’s output throughout eight platforms from the Sinclair ZX81 by to Tempest 2000 on the Atari Jaguar, with Digital Eclipse contributing new sport Gridrunner Remastered, a revamped model of Minter’s Commodore 64 shooter.
Alongside greater than 40 playable video games will probably be two of Minter’s gentle synthesisers to play with, plus a beforehand unseen demo of Attack of the Mutant Camels ‘89 for the unreleased Konix Multi-System online game console.
As with Digital Eclipse’s earlier interactive docs, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story will characteristic interactive timelines crammed with improvement supplies, design paperwork, pictures and movies tracing Minter’s distinctive inspirations and video games, together with commentary from Minter himself.
While Digital Eclipse aren’t any strangers to amassing online game historical past – having put out collections of basic Disney video games, SNK and Street Fighter titles, Mega Man, and TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection amongst others – Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story will probably be their second instalment within the Gold Master collection of interactive docs, which debuted earlier this 12 months with a take a look at Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner’s bold Karateka.
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story will probably be launched subsequent 12 months. A characteristic documentary movie about Minter, Heart of Neon, has additionally been within the works for a number of years, with director Paul Docherty contributing over an hour of footage to the playable doc.
