Gridrunner. Revenge of the Mutant Camels. Tempest 2000. Llamatron. In the British gaming universe of the '80s and '90s, nobody made games like Jeff Minter.
Play the history of one of the weirdest, wildest game developers to ever exist -- a man who loves shooters and sheep, lasers and llamas -- in Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, now available for $29.99 USD (or equivalent) on Steam, GOG, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch.
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- Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2236680/Llamasoft_The_Jeff_Minter_Story/
- GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/llamasoft_the_jeff_minter_story
- Xbox: https://www.xbox.com/games/store/llamasoft-the-jeff-minter-story/9P87DP4KTFKG
- PlayStation: https://store.playstation.com/concept/10008403
- Nintendo Switch: North America | Europe
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GOING TO GDC? Editorial director Chris Kohler would love to tell you how Digital Eclipse is preserving and celebrating video game history in Gold Master Series documentaries like Llamasoft and The Making of Karateka, remakes like Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, and original games as a developer and publisher. (They're doing such a good job of it, Atari acquired the studio last fall!) To book a GDC appointment: Please email media@digitaleclipse.com with a couple of times that work for you on Wednesday 3/20 and Thursday 3/21.
Prepare to journey back in time to an era of cassette tapes, photocopied zines, and README.TXT -- an era in which a kid with a Commodore VIC-20 and dreams of radioactive sheep could become one of Britain's best-known game makers. A virtual museum of design documents, 42 classic games from 8 different platforms, and all-new video features from the director of the upcoming film "Heart of Neon" tell the fascinating story of a true independent game designer.
- The acclaimed originals. Play all the Minter classics you've heard of (and several you probably haven'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-of-life features that make them more fun than ever before.
- Gridrunner: Remastered. Digital Eclipse has updated Jeff's signature shooter masterpiece with thrilling modern graphics and sound, while still running the core of the Commodore 64 version for 100% gameplay accuracy.
- Light synthesizers. Explore two of Jeff Minter's earliest light synthesizers, Psychedelia and Colourspace, with all-new options and features optimized for controller-based play.
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story is the second installment in Digital Eclipse's Gold Master Series, which archives video game history in a uniquely interactive, playable format. The series' first entry, The Making of Karateka, is available on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation. Sign up for the Digital Eclipse newsletter to receive updates on the Gold Master Series and more.
About Heart of Neon
Heart of Neon (https://www.heartofneon.com) is a feature documentary about legendary game designer and programmer Jeff Minter, a computer artist whose influential career has endured almost the entire history of home video game entertainment. Directed by industry veteran Paul Docherty, the film Heart of Neon is not only a unique insight into the video games community, but is also a celebration of the joy that comes from making and playing captivating digital art. Docherty contributed over an hour of all-new video featurettes to Digital Eclipse's Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story.