Jeff Minter
Jeff Minter
Jeff 'Yak' Minter is an independent English video game designer and programmer. He is the founder of software house Llamasoft and has created dozens of games during his career. Minter's games are often arcade style shoot 'em ups. They often contain titular or in-game references demonstrating his fondness of ruminants. Many of his programs also feature something of a psychedelic element, as in some of the earliest "light synthesizer" programs including his Trip-a-Tron...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionGame Designer
Date of Birth22 April 1962
Compunet was fantastic. You could upload these little demos of what you'd been working on, and it was a really nice social scene - years before the Internet.
Once you get over the hurdle of how to get something on the screen, it's not that difficult to make apps and share them with your friends.
PlayStation consolidated the second wave of gaming. There was a slack period before it came when nothing much was happening.
I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.
The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you.