and so it begins again, I wonder what Jeff will make next?

[Markie]

This is always a very exciting time, finding out anything about what might come next, although in these days it's often not until near release the title is announced.

Going back some years to the NOTB newsletter days Jeff of course had the freedom to talk about the next project, if memory serves the details surrounding Ancipital got me the most excited and it turned out equally so, what a amazing game, never completed, around 86% complete I think, still play it to this day, it's a fab blast :-)

So, next, we always rattle the idea's around, I know RiK wants desperately to see Andes Attack, I'm easy but would love to see the old characters return in whatever form Jeff might like, even a smaller game to help fill the void of the long big coded games ... Some Ancipital! or a cracking Attack of the Mutant Camels III, wow, could be incredible!

Whatever comes next, I hope the length of time to get it out is a little shorter than before, but then Giles has his work cut out porting everything which I know is a huge labour session ...

[merman]

I’d love to see more of the iOS/Minotaur Arcade games revisited.
Or a Batalyx-style mini game collection.

[Markie]

a Batalyx-style mini game collection.

Oh hell yes! 6 Multi games all linked :-)

1) AMC III
2) Laser Zone II
3) Hell-Gate II
4) Andes Attack
5) Matrix II
6) ColourSpace relaxation mode

[Deckard]

First would be an iOS repack for the switch - Loved loved loved Minotaur Rescue but barring that as Atari have access to it now - a reimagining of Berzerk would go down very nicely and as Jeff loves his old skool samples is there anything more evocative of old arcades than Otto barking out -



Funny enough it was a game I was never good at for some reason...I think I always wanted to kill everything rather than just lure stuff out...

[Markie]

Replacing those characters with some Llamasoft ones would be a great start! :-)

[Foozwah]

I’d love to see more of the iOS/Minotaur Arcade games revisited.

So much this. While Akka Arrh is still my current most-played Llamasoft game, it's a rare week where I don't dive into Minotaur Arcade Vol. 1 on PS4 for some Gridunner/GoatUp action. Those updates were absolutely superb and perfect for "just one more go" type play.

First would be an iOS repack for the switch...

Also much this. Even as (relatively) straight ports from iOS, with no gussying up whatsoever, having those games available again in portable form would be like several Xmases combined for me...

[Markie]

I guess it would e nice if Jeff had time to code a smaller game in between the big games :-) Keep us fans entertained!

[WiteWulf]

I have a suspicion that, based on the success of Akka Arrh, the now-not-so-twitching-corpse-of- Atari may be letting him loose on some bigger titles...

As an aside, if you want to try and keep up with Jeff's musings, I'd recommend getting on Mastodon and following him here. He's a lot chattier than anywhere else that I'm aware of (and there are a fair few other YYers, past and present, on there).

https://toot.wales/@llamasoft_ox/110157032170427086

https://toot.wales/@llamasoft_ox/110157172164389372

https://toot.wales/@llamasoft_ox/110186350449078844

[Whiteball]

Well, if we are talking Atari, I would love to see what the guys could do with I, Robot.

I've always thought about a mash-up of Shamus exploration 'corridors' and Robotron for the larger 'rooms'.
I think Jeff even mentioned something similar in a blog post once. Now that would be ace.

Alas, there are so many things they could do, but whatever it is you know it's going to be great.

[mb3018]

If they ever talk Atari into doing Tempest 4000 VR, I wish they would do Tempest 2000 VR as well.

[Jamie]

Personally I'd like to see some kind of Digital Eclipse type anthology release with all of the old stuff emulated, like the recent Atari 50 compilation. Interviews and archive videos too. Along with a couple of reworked titles done by Jeff. That would be cool.

[Deckard]

Absolutely this.

[Markie]

Any news peeps? Snippets?

[Foozwah]

Just Jeff's occasional posts on Masto about how he likes doing stuff with floaty, wibbly text. (In the context of tinkering on the distinctive title font for The New Thing.)

[Markie]

All very quiet ...