chinnyhill10 wrote:
GovernmentYard wrote:
chinnyhill10 wrote:
Given the cult of personality around him and his rather mediocre but pretty games, I'm surprised he hasn't done a Kickstarter.
The preference is for making games, not making pitches. I'm not sure it's fair to talk about a cult of personality. If you don't like Jeff's games as much as some people, that's fine, but intimating that he's using whatever means to elevate himself to some unfair or undue status is pretty insulting. If Jeff was any good at self-promotion, the iOS titles would have been more widely known about for a start.
I have 3 of the iOS titles on my phone. Goat Up, Minos and Super Ox wars. Minos is a rip off of an old Atari game, Goat Up is faintly amusing and Super Ox Wars is a Tesco Value Xenon 2 with headache inducing graphics.
He just keeps turning out mediocre sheep/goat/llama obsessed games with graphics like you are on an acid trip and we all know he is capable of so much more.
Horses (or Llamas) for courses then I guess, if you don't like psychadelia. Can't say any of it's like any acid trips I've enjoyed but there we go. The animal eccentricities of his games have been their trademark since Andes Attack, which was defender with Llamas in 1982.
I didn't like Goatup much, but it's the best of that ilk of game I've played, even if the sequel makes the original look like a simple proof-of-concept exercise. Caverns of Minos I loved, it's hardly fair to call it a rip-off. It's an obvious tribute, and a funny and playable one at that. Equally, Ox Wars is a huge hat-tip to Star Soldier, which brings in bullet hell and polarity based scoring, per Ikaruga. These are love letters to long-forgotten classics, not ripoffs.
I dunno, man - obsession, ripoffs, cult of personality... you seem pretty annoyed with him. He just likes doing retro stuff with animals in it, and always has. And remember Campbell's theorem - for every bad Llamasoft game there's an amazing one.
If anyone has an Android and would like to play the iOS gridrunner (which has the C64 and Vic-20 versions included) then it's donationware - download here then pay what you like...
http://minotaurproject.co.uk/Minotaur/donate.php It will need side-loading and there's also the windows version of the PPC game Gridrunner++ on there, though I think it falls over a bit from Vista onwards.