Sony isn’t messing around when it comes to getting indie developers on the PS Vita. , , heck, even might be coming to Sony’s struggling handheld. The device may not be selling like gangbusters, but it’s certainly got a booming library of offbeat fare. Part of this is in part due to the efforts of Shahid Ahmad, SCE’s senior business development manager in the UK. Ahmad continues to bring in new talent like Ahmad’s latest PS Vita coup? Convincing iconic designer Jeff Minter to make a sequel to specifically for PS Vita.
“We happy to announce that we have just begun work on a new game of the PlayStation Vita,” wrote Minter on his studio Llamasoft’s website, “19 years ago saw the release of one of the best games Llamasoft ever made, a game which came to be recognized as one of the best games on an entire system – on the Atari Jaguar. I’ve often thought that one day I would like to revisit that game and do some kind of an updated version on modern hardware.”
“And so that brings us to our new project – on the Playstation Vita. We’re going to base it on the essence of the original . It’ll be the pure, straightforward shooter that maybe you hoped for when you first saw We’re not going to overload you with ultra psychedelia, but we will make it fluid and colourful and awesome-looking on the Vita’s delicious, vibrant OLED screen. We’re going to give you a perfect treat for your eyes, ears and thumbs with a modern extrapolation of one of the best shooters ever made on hardware that’s just perfectly suited for it, and in a way that retains the purity of the original design.”
Minter released the aforementioned in 2007 on Xbox 360, and while the overwhelming psychedelic shooter received many rave reviews, it also earned a reputation for being obtuse and difficult (OXM actually went as far as to name it the Worst Game of the Year). Since then, Lllamasoft has focused primarily on iOS games, like the wholly enjoyable
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