Litil Divil

The game had relatively positive reception, with common praises going towards the games graphics, sound and humorous art style and tone but criticisms towards certain portions of gameplay feeling like a form of padding.

• Title — Litil Divil • Developer — Gremlin Graphics • Publisher — Gremlin Graphics Philips Interactive Media (US) Rushware (Germany) M.C.M. Software (Spain) MicroByte (Argentina) • Released — CD-I MS-DOS CD32August 1994 Windows OS X Linux24 July 2014 • Genre — Action • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — CD32, MS-DOS, CD-i, Windows, OS X, Linux

The player takes control of a little red devil called Mutt who is trying to retrieve the "Mystical Pizza of Plenty" from the Labyrinth of Chaos. The dungeon consists of a maze navigated from an over-the-shoulder perspective and rooms where Mutt is facing various riddles.

Litil Divil first began development in July 1990, with the Amiga CD32 version releasing after four years in development in August 1994; Litil Divil's release was delayed several times. However, the original art design behind Litil Divil is stated to have happened five years before release. Litil Divil's demo was initially created by Emerald Software, and was being developed concurrently with Plan 9 From Outer Space in 1992 by Gremlin Sheffield, and was named "Little Divil" at the time. Litil Divil was first released for PC on CD, and a later floppy release on PC required frames to be removed from animation and the quality of the music to be lowered due to compression. The One interviewed Tommy Rolfe, one of Litil Divil's programmers, for information regarding its development in a pre-release interview. Litil Divil was programmed by Gremlin Ireland, but work on the game was originally begun by Gremlin Sheffield, which Rolfe said it began five years ago, producing some artwork, sketches and things before it passed to them. One of the original designers for Litil Divil was Heimdall 2 artist Jerr O'Carroll, prior to his departure from Gremlin and subsequent employment with Core Design in 1991. O'Carroll's artstyle is present in Mutt's design. Originally there were five different Mutts who were "competing with each other to get through five levels of Hell"; the development team decided that it would be better to concentrate on one character, and Hell was later changed to Underworld. The plot device of The Mystic Pizza of Plenty was introduced late into development. Steve McKevitt from Litil Divil's publisher Gremlin Graphics named the game, Litil Divil was chosen as opposed to 'Little Devil' because McKevitt's wife has an Irish accent, and "she and her family always say "Ooh, you litil divil" to the kids, when they're naughty". Litil Divil was originally intended for release for the Super Famicom CD drive "in 1990 or 1991", but due to the CD drive's cancelled release, Rolfe states that "while we were waiting around, we thought it might be a good idea to start converting it to the PC CD-ROM. After a year or so we realized that we'd probably never see the Super Famicom CD, so we just went full steam ahead with the PC version". The Amiga CD32 port was impeded by the Amiga's lower RAM; Rolfe states that "we developed Litil Divil originally for a PC with a minimum of 4Mb RAM. So you can see 2Mb isn't really that much when you're creating a graphics-intensive program like Litil Divil... We recently converted Litil Divil for the [CD-i], which has 2.5Mb RAM, so we had already compacted the data down to that level - and for the CD32 we just had to go a little bit further".

A reworked Sega Mega Drive conversion was planned but never released. Likewise, a port for the Atari Jaguar CD was in development by Gremlin Interactive and slated to be published around the second quarter of 1995, but was never released.

Funbox Media re-released the game in DotEmu (PC), Good Old Games (PC) and GamersGate (PC, Mac) on May 11, 2011, June 21, 2011, and March 19, 2014, respectively. OS X and Linux versions were added in GOG.com by Blue Moon Red Owl, the current distributor of the game on GOG.com, on May 9, 2013 and July 24, 2014. Kiss, Ltd. re-released the game on Steam on March 19, 2014 for PC only and Desura for PC, Mac and Linux.