As a part of the Day of the Devs stream, Digital Eclipse has revealed the following recreation of their Gold Grasp Sequence. This one is concentrated on Jeff Minter, entitled Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story.

The Gold Grasp Sequence formally began with The Making of Karateka, however the format was first piloted for Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration. Somewhat than simply being collections, the titles are interactive documentaries constructed across the video games they include. On this means, better context and, subsequently, a better appreciation may be fashioned for the topics.

Jeff Minter is a veteran of recreation design. He started his profession within the early 1980’s, creating video games for 8-bit microcomputers just like the Sinclair ZX81 and the Commodore Vic-20. Quite a lot of his early video games have been clones of standard arcade titles, which was an especially frequent apply and place to begin for programmers on the time. The sport he’s maybe finest identified for is Tempest 2000, a 1994 title for the Atari Jaguar and sequel to David Theurer’s 1981 arcade title, Tempest. Tempest 2000 is commonly cited as one of many only a few legitimately nice video games on the Atari Jaguar.

Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story will spotlight Minter’s profession by means of 42 video games throughout 8 platforms. Whereas this does embody a number of ports of the identical video games (three separate variations of Gridrunner), we do get Tempest 2000 in addition to Revenge of the Mutant Camels ‘89, which was meant for the canceled Konix Multisystem. Damned cool stuff.

I’ve stated it earlier than, however Digital Eclipse’s strategy to recreation collections is transformative. It’s such an efficient means of preserving these video games, giving gamers an opportunity to be taught some historical past of the online game business whereas additionally attempting out the video games for themselves.

Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story is ready for a 2024 launch. I haven’t been capable of finding any introduced platforms, however judging from earlier releases, it’s most likely going to be on PC and most consoles.