Voidrunner

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8,852 likes 1 talking about this. Voidrunner is an online multiplayer flight combat game in exotic, epic landscapes.

Voidrunner

Voidrunner

Commodore 64 - 1987

Also available on: ZX Spectrum

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1987, the year Voidrunner was released on Commodore 64, as well as ZX Spectrum. Made by Llamasoft Ltd. and published by M.A.D., this action game is available for free on this page.

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Commodore 64 Version

ZX Spectrum Version

Year:1987
Publisher:M.A.D.
Developer:Llamasoft Ltd.

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.WebsiteJeff Minter (born in 22 April 1962 in ) is an English video game and who often goes by the name Yak. He is the founder of Llamasoft and has created dozens of games during his career, which began in 1981 with games for the. Minter's games are often arcade style which contain titular or in-game references demonstrating his fondness of (, sheep, etc.). Many of his programs also feature something of a element, as in some of the earliest 'light synthesizer' programs including.Minter's works include the (2004) which is built into the console, and the video games,. Contents.Game development career Pre-commercial career (early years) Minter had expressed an interest in programming computers from a young age.

He wrote the game Deflex for the in 1979. However it would not be until a long illness during the school year that Minter's talents would develop in any meaningful way.

Following a three-month stint in which Minter was restricted to lying on his back and was confined to his bed between November 1981 and January 1982, boredom led him to take up computer programming in earnest to pass the time.Upon recovery, Minter teamed up with Richard Jones, a fellow pupil, and together they started writing their own games on their school's Commodore PET. They soon parted ways. Jones went on to commercial projects, some of them in the software market (e.g., ).Commercial 8-bit games In 1981 Minter started independently writing and selling video games for the, the first machine he owned. Some were made for software company dk'tronics. These titles were sold as a package but this was not available for very long, as Minter left the company following a royalties dispute.

He formed a partnership with his mother, Hazel Minter. Together they developed and commercially produced 20 games for the,. Having been studying physics at the, success in the programming industry prompted him to drop his studies and take up video game development full-time.The following year, he founded the Llamasoft. His first Llamasoft game was a clone for the called Andes Attack (US version: Aggressor). In Andes Attack, little llamas advanced upon and attacked the player instead of the spaceships from Defender. As a fan of Defender, Minter would it again as Defender 2000.

Through the Brighton-based software house, Salamander Software, Minter had his games written for the Spectrum and other home microcomputers. It was Mr S.A. Tenquist who was responsible for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 16K version of. The conversion was released and published for Christmas 1983 by Ltd., UK. Jeff Minter's original Commodore version was written in a week and marked his first commercial success both in the UK and in the US.Minter went on to develop a number of classic games, all written in, for the later home computers (such as the, and ) which were marketed mainly by word of mouth and by the occasional advertisement. These games included: Gridrunner, Abductor, Matrix: Gridrunner 2, Hellgate, Return of the Mutant Camels, Laser Zone, Mama Llama, Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time, Voidrunner, and Iridis Alpha.Post 8-bit work.

Minter developed and the second for the game system.In 1989, Minter helped in the production of the console.Minter also worked for. For Atari he produced Tempest 2000 (1994) on the. It was a remake of 's 1981 classic,. Minter also produced (1995) on the Jaguar, remaking 's 1980 classic,.

Listing Minter in their '75 Most Important People in the Games Industry of 1995', called him the Jaguar's 'leading developer'. Minter also produced the ( VLM-1) for the add-on. For VM Labs, Minter designed related software for the chip including the creation of the and the video game,.Minter then wrote games for the platform, some of which also had PC conversions (using a customised Pocket PC emulator). During this time, Minter released three games: Deflex, (a reinterpretation of his own 1984 game, Hover Bovver), and the PC/Macintosh game (the third title in the Gridrunner series). Jeff Minter atIn 2002, he began work on a for the Nintendo to be called. Using the newest version of his, the VLM-3 or, Unity was to combine the two main threads of Minter's prior career: light synthesis and classic arcade style shooting. Minter was involved in writing this game for 's throughout 2003; however, the project was cancelled in December 2004.

Neon has since been reprogrammed and significantly expanded and is used in media visualisation.In 2007 Minter released, an action video game with similarities to. Space Giraffe was released for Xbox 360 through.In 2008 it was announced at the that designers at Llamasoft were working on the visualisation aspects of the Xbox 360 version of, called. The game was released in 2008. In December 2008 was released for the.In September 2009 he released for Windows-based PCs as a digital download.The Minotaur Project In 2010, frustrated with the delays surrounding the release of his titles, Minter was keen to return to a style of game development where games could be produced and released quickly. The platform was chosen and Llamasoft announced that a series of games would be produced under the banner The Minotaur Project. The idea behind the series is that Llamasoft would develop a game in the style of a past computer or console but without the constraints of the original hardware.On 5 January 2011 he released for, (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), and.On 2 March 2011 Llamasoft released their second iOS game,.

Minotron: 2112 is a remake of the / game (which was inspired by the coin-op video game ). This section needs expansion. You can help.

( December 2012)In online forums and informal game credits pages Minter usually signs as 'Yak', which is, in his own words' a pseudonym chosen a long time ago, back in the days when tables on coin-op machines only held three letters, and I settled on Yak because the is a scruffy hairy beast – a lot like me;-).' Since 2015, Minter has used the name 'Yak' relatively rarely, usually signing as 'Stinky Ox' or 'Jeff '.He lives in Wales with his partner Ivan 'Giles' Zorzin, four sheep, two goats, two llamas and a dog. Although Minter is synonymous with Llamasoft, Zorzin is jointly responsible for the recent titles.Minter likes Indian food, particularly chicken vindaloo.

Sheep are his favourite animal; he has kept them as pets for many years. This section of a needs additional for. Please help by adding. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially or harmful.Find sources: – ( June 2014) Second- and third generation games.

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Defenda. Bomb Buenos Aires (VIC-20, 1982;, 1988) a.k.a. Aggressor, Bomber, Blitzkrieg. City Bomber (, 1982).

Gridrunner (, VIC-20, ZX Spectrum, 1982;, 1983). Matrix: Gridrunner 2 (VIC-20, 1982; Atari 8-bit and C64, 1983;, 1986). Rat Man (VIC-20, 1982). Rox III (VIC-20/ZX Spectrum, 1982). Super Deflex (ZX Spectrum, 1982). (Atari 8-bit and C64, 1983) a.k.a. Advance of the Megacamel.

Headbangers Heaven (ZX Spectrum, 1983). (C64, 1983; Atari 8-bit, 1984). Laser Zone (VIC-20/C64, 1983; C16, 1986). Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time (VIC-20, 1983; C64, 1984) a.k.a. Meta-Llamas.

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Revenge of the Mutant Camels 2. Voidrunner (C64, 1987)Fourth generation games. (Amiga/Atari ST, 1988). Super Gridrunner (Amiga, 1989; Atari ST, 1991). (Amiga/Atari ST, 1990). Photon Storm (Amiga/Atari ST, 1990).

(Amiga/Atari ST, 1991; PC, 1992). (Amiga/Atari ST, 1991; PC, 1994). Hardcore (Atari ST, 1992)Fifth generation games. (, 1994). (Atari Jaguar, 1994) a.k.a. VLM-1.

(Atari Jaguar, 1995). Llamazap (, 1995). (, 1996) (credited only for Tempest 2000). (, 2000). (Nuon DVD, 2000). (PC, 2002). (PC, 2002)Sixth generation games.

(, Cancelled)Seventh generation games. (Xbox 360, 2005) a.k.a. VLM-3. Super puzzle fighter ii turbo pc. (Xbox 360, 2007; PC, 2008). (/, 2008; Xbox 360, 2009). (PC, 2009)The Minotaur Project., (2011) Represents the., (2011) Represents the., (2011) Represents the., (2012) Represents the., Represents arcade games of era.

First Minotaur Project title to be released on the Mac., Represents the platform. Llamasoft's first vertical scrolling shooter., Puzzle game and a remake of one of Llamasoft's earliest titles., Sequel to GoatUp. Platformer game with level editor built-in.Eighth generation games. (, 2014). Minotaur Rescue VR (, 2014).

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'75 Power Players'. November 1995. 'WCES: The Calm Before the Storm'. Once again, Jeff Minter's efforts paid off, though, and his Virtual Light Machine which comes packed into the Jaguar CD's hardware unit delivers a psychedelic enough experience for any audio CD-playing, Jaguar-owning hippies.

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