Explore the origins of a British legend with Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story on PC & Consoles.
Get ready to travel back in time to the era of cassette tapes, photocopied zines and README.TXT – an era when a kid with a Commodore VC-20 and dreams of radioactive sheep could become one of Britain's most famous games companies.
As announced at IGN FanFest, Digital Eclipse's interactive documentary Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story will be released on March 13th for PC, Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch.
About Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story
Gridrunner. Revenge of the Mutant Camels. Tempest 2000. Llamatron. In the British gaming universe of the 80s and 90s, no one made games like Jeff Minter.
Plays the story of one of the craziest and wildest game developers ever – a man who loves shooters and sheep, lasers and llamas. A virtual museum with design documents, 42 classic games from 8 different platforms and brand new video features from the director of the upcoming film “Heart of Neon” tell the fascinating story of a real, independent game developer.
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story includes:
The highly praised originals. Play all the Minter classics you know (and some you probably don't) – Sheep In Space, Andes Attack, Attack of the Mutant Camels, Matrix, Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time, Hellgate, Laser Zone and many more – now with new quality features that make them even more fun than ever before. Gridrunner: Remastered. Digital Eclipse has updated Jeff's shooter masterpiece with exciting modern graphics and sound, while retaining the core of the Commodore 64 version for 100% gameplay accuracy. Light synthesizer. Explores two of Jeff Minter's earliest light synthesizers, Psychedelia and Colourspace, with all-new options and features optimized for controller-based play.
About the Gold Master Series
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story is the second installment in Digital Eclipse's Gold Master Series, archiving video game history in a unique interactive, playable format. The first part of the series, The Making of Karateka, is available on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox and PlayStation.
About Heart of Neon
Heart of Neon (https://www.heartofneon.com) is a documentary film about legendary game designer and programmer Jeff Minter, a computer artist whose influential career has spanned nearly the entire history of home video game entertainment. Directed by industry veteran Paul Docherty, the film Heart of Neon not only offers a unique look into the video game community, but also celebrates the joy that comes from making and playing immersive digital art. Docherty has over an hour of brand new video featurettes for Digital Eclipse's Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story.
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