Jeff Minter interview - Game development since the early 1980s- Skrolli @ Assembly 2019
27Jeff "Yak" Minter has been doing games since the early 1980s and still goes on strong. Jeff and his colleague Ivan "Giles" Zorzin joined the Skrolli magazine in Assembly Computer Festival 2019 talking about their history, experiences in game development and the modern times as well. What these two awesome guys are up to now? Welcome to our very relaxed Q&A session headed by Finnish games journalist Jukka O. Kauppinen.
See also: Jeff & Bandersnatch: https://youtu.be/sIGfoW7jUn4
From Wikipedia:
Jeff Minter (born in 22 April 1962 in Reading) is an independent British video game designer and programmer who often goes by the name Yak. He is the founder of software house Llamasoft and has created dozens of games during his career, which began in 1981 with games for the Sinclair ZX80. Minter's games are often arcade style shoot 'em ups which contain titular or in-game references demonstrating his fondness of ruminants (llamas, sheep, camels, etc.). Many of his programs also feature something of a psychedelic element, as in some of the earliest "light synthesizer" programs including Trip-a-Tron.
Minter's works include the music visualisation program Neon (2004) which is built into the Xbox 360 console, and the video games Gridrunner, Attack of the Mutant Camels, Tempest 2000, and Polybius.
Bandersnatch
In December 2018 Minter appeared in the film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch where he played Jerome F. Davies, the author of the titular Bandersnatch novel who murdered his wife.
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