{"id":776192,"date":"2025-11-30T14:02:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/game-of-the-week-getting-to-know-the-author-in-llamasoft-the-jeff-minter-story?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed"},"modified":"2025-11-30T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:02:55","slug":"game-of-the-week-getting-to-know-the-author-in-llamasoft-the-jeff-minter-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/game-of-the-week-getting-to-know-the-author-in-llamasoft-the-jeff-minter-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of the week: Getting to know the author in Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/game-of-the-week-getting-to-know-the-author-in-llamasoft-the-jeff-minter-story.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/llamasoft-the-jeff-minter-story-review\">This week&#8217;s Game of the Week is Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story<\/a>. It was not a difficult decision, and that&#8217;s no slight to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/pennys-big-breakaway-review\">Penny&#8217;s Big Breakaway, which is a really gorgeous and creative 3D platformer<\/a> that offers nostalgia as well as something new.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways, what&#8217;s great about Penny is what&#8217;s great about Llamasoft too. These are games made by creators whose tastes we have come to understand. I know what I&#8217;m getting from a game Christian Whitehead has worked on. In the future, it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if he got the same kind of treatment Jeff Minter got in Digital Eclipse&#8217;s latest.<\/p>\n<p>I have gotten myself back to front, which is always easy when Minter is concerned. Slow down. Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story is the latest in Digital Eclipse&#8217;s Gold Master series. This is a kind of Criterion approach to video games. With The Making of Karateka we got a deep dive into a specific game, a deep dive that offered a fascinating window into its creator, Jordan Mechner. In Llamasoft, we get the biography of a company, taking us through the classic games of the 80s and 90s and leaving us with a sense of where things went next.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/game-of-the-week-getting-to-know-the-author-in-llamasoft-the-jeff-minter-story?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/game-of-the-week-getting-to-know-the-author-in-llamasoft-the-jeff-minter-story?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Game of the Week is Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story. It was not a difficult decision, and that&#8217;s no slight to Penny&#8217;s Big Breakaway, which is a really gorgeous and creative 3D platformer that offers nostalgia as well as something new. In many ways, what&#8217;s great about Penny is what&#8217;s great about Llamasoft too. These are games made by creators whose tastes we have come to understand. I know what I&#8217;m getting from a game Christian Whitehead has worked on. In the future, it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if he got the same kind of treatment Jeff Minter got in Digital Eclipse&#8217;s latest. I have gotten myself back to front, which is always easy when Minter is concerned. Slow down. 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