British video game designer
Jeff Minter
(born 22 April 1962) is an English 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
ZX80
.
[2]
Minter's games are
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
.
[3]
Game development career
[
edit
]
Pre-commercial career (early years)
[
edit
]
Minter began programming computers at a young age. He wrote the game
Deflex
for the
Commodore PET
in 1979.
[4]
However it would not be until a long illness during a university year that Minter's talents would develop in any meaningful way. Following a three-month stint due to a sudden eruption of
pericarditis
, in which Minter was restricted to lying on his back and was confined to his bed between November 1981 and January 1982, boredom led him to take up computer programming in earnest to pass the time.
[5]
Upon recovery, Minter teamed up with Richard Jones, a fellow pupil, and together they started writing their own games on their school's Commodore PET.
[6]
They soon parted ways. Jones went on to commercial projects, some of them in the software market (e.g.,
Interceptor Micros
).
Commercial 8-bit games
[
edit
]
In 1981 Minter started independently writing and selling video games for the
ZX80
, the first machine he owned.
[7]
Some were made for software company dk'tronics.
[2]
These titles were sold as a package but this was not available for very long, as Minter left the company following a royalties dispute.
[4]
He formed a partnership with his mother, Hazel Minter. Together they developed and commercially produced 20 games for the
ZX81
,
VIC-20
,
Atari 8-bit computers
,
ZX Spectrum
, and
Commodore 64
. Having been studying physics at the
University of East Anglia
, success in the programming industry prompted him to drop his studies and take up video game development full-time.
[5]
The following year, he founded the
software house
Llamasoft.
[8]
His first Llamasoft game was a
Defender
clone for the VIC-20 called
Andes Attack
(US version:
Aggressor
). In
Andes Attack
, little llamas advanced upon and attacked the player instead of the spaceships from
Defender
. As a fan of
Defender
, Minter would
remake
it again as
Defender 2000
. Through the Brighton-based software house, Salamander Software, Minter had his games written for the Spectrum and other home microcomputers. It was Mr S.A. Tenquist who was responsible for the ZX Spectrum 16K version of
Gridrunner
. The conversion was released and published for Christmas 1983 by
Quicksilva
Ltd., UK. Jeff Minter's original Commodore version was written in a week
[9]
and marked his first commercial success both in the UK and in the US.
Minter went on to develop a number of games for the
Commodore 64
,
Atari 8-bit computers
, and
Atari ST
which were marketed by word of mouth and
magazine
advertisements. These included
Gridrunner
,
Abductor
,
Matrix: Gridrunner 2
,
Hellgate
,
Hover Bovver
,
Attack of the Mutant Camels
,
Revenge of the Mutant Camels
,
Return of the Mutant Camels
,
Laser Zone
,
Mama Llama
,
Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time
,
Sheep in Space
,
Voidrunner
, and
Iridis Alpha
.
Post 8-bit work
[
edit
]
Minter developed
Tempest 3000
and the second
Virtual Light Machine
for the
Nuon
game system.
In 1989, Minter helped
[
vague
]
in the production of the
Konix Multisystem
console.
Minter worked for
Atari
[2]
and
VM Labs
. For Atari he produced
Tempest 2000
(1994) on the
Jaguar
. It was a remake of
Dave Theurer
's 1981
Tempest
. He followed it with
Defender 2000
(1995) on the Jaguar, a remake of the 1981 arcade game. Listing Minter in their "75 Most Important People in the Games Industry of 1995",
Next Generation
called him the Jaguar's "leading developer".
[10]
Minter also produced the
Virtual Light Machine
(
VLM-1
) for the
Jaguar CD
add-on.
[11]
For VM Labs he created the
VLM-2
and
Tempest 3000
.
[12]
Minter then wrote games for the
Pocket PC
platform, some of which also have Windows conversions:
Deflex
,
Hover Bovver 2: Grand Theft Flymo
(a reinterpretation of his own 1984 game,
Hover Bovver
), and
Gridrunner++
.
Jeff Minter at
Assembly 2004
In 2002, he began work on a
music video game
for the
GameCube
to be called
Unity
. Using the newest version of his
VLM
, the
VLM-3
or
Neon
,
Unity
was to combine the two main threads of Minter's prior career: light synthesis and classic arcade style shooting. Minter was involved in writing this game for
Lionhead Studios
throughout 2003. The project was cancelled in December 2004.
Neon
has since been reprogrammed and significantly expanded and is used in
Xbox 360
media visualisation.
[13]
In 2007 Minter released
Space Giraffe
, an action video game with similarities to
Tempest
.
Space Giraffe
was released for Xbox 360 through
Xbox Live Arcade
.
In 2008 it was announced at the
Tokyo Game Show
that designers at Llamasoft were working on the visualisation aspects of the Xbox 360 version of
Space Invaders Extreme
.
[14]
The game was released in 2008. In December 2008
Space Giraffe
was released for Windows.
In September 2009 he released
Gridrunner Revolution
for Windows as a digital download.
The Minotaur Project
[
edit
]
In 2010, frustrated with the delays surrounding the release of his titles, Minter was keen to return to a style of game development where games could be produced and released quickly. The
iOS
platform was chosen and Llamasoft announced that a series of games would be produced under the banner
The Minotaur Project
.
[15]
The idea behind the series is that Llamasoft would develop a game in the style of a past computer or console but without the constraints of the original hardware.
On 5 January 2011 he released
Minotaur Rescue
for
iPhone 3GS
,
iPhone 4
,
iPod Touch
(3rd generation), iPod Touch (4th generation), and
iPad
.
[16]
On 2 March 2011 Llamasoft released their second iOS game,
Minotron: 2112
.
[17]
Minotron: 2112
is a remake of the
Atari ST
/
Amiga
game
Llamatron
(which was inspired by the coin-op video game
Robotron: 2084
). An iOS version of
Deflex
was also released although this was not specifically labeled as being part of the Minotaur Project.
On 17 September 2011, Llamasoft released
GoatUp
, their first platform game.
[18]
On 27 January 2012
Caverns of Minos
was released
[19]
followed on 24 March by
Gridrunner iOS
.
Super Ox Wars
, a shoot-em-up based on
Ikaruga
, was released in July 2012; the final game in the series,
GoatUp 2
was released in March 2013, unique in that it is the only Llamasoft title to feature a
level editor
.
Minter then announced his intention to abandon mobile development due to lack of discoverability, low turnover, and the dominance of
free-to-play
and
video game clones
; he ultimately declared that, after accounting for his time, the Minotaur Project made a net loss.
[
citation needed
]
Minter stated on Twitter than "Returning to iOS would be like returning to the scene of a mugging"
[20]
and "I would advise any dev valuing integrity and sanity to just get the hell out".
[21]
As a result, the Minotaur Project games were not updated for 64-bit versions of iOS and were removed from the App Store while existing copies became unplayable on updated devices.
The code framework for the Minotaur Project games enables them to be rebuilt for both Mac and PC versions.
[22]
Gridrunner was released for the Mac in August 2012.
Return to console games
[
edit
]
In April 2013 it was announced that Llamasoft had signed a deal with
Sony Computer Entertainment
to create a
tube shooter
for the
PlayStation Vita
called
TxK
.
[23]
The game would be Llamasoft's fourth tube shooter in two decades and was described as the spiritual successor of 1994's
Tempest 2000
for the Atari Jaguar. As Minter explained in his development blog the project goals were to create a more traditional, straightforward and accessible tube shooter than
Space Giraffe
, to improve on the flaws from
Tempest 2000
and
Tempest 3000
, and to evoke the neo-retro aesthetic without being cheesy.
[24]
TxK
was released on 11 February 2014, by digital download through PSN.
[25]
At the beginning of 2015, Minter was threatened with legal action by
Atari
, claiming that
TxK
was too similar to
Tempest 2000
- a game that Minter himself wrote, but Atari owned the rights to.
[26]
This raised several issues, including Atari claiming that Minter that had illegally copied material from his own source code and violated design copyrights on his own design traditions.
[27]
Sony was unwilling to support Minter and as such future versions of
TxK
were blocked from release, although the PS Vita version remains available.
[28]
Minter and Zorzin's first publicly available game for a modern home console,
Polybius
, was released on the
PlayStation 4
on 9 May 2017.
[29]
The game features extensive support for the
PlayStation VR
headset, based on Minter's experience building the unreleased VR version of
TxK
. Shortly after release, Llamasoft were contacted by
Trent Reznor
of the band
Nine Inch Nails
, asking to use visuals from
Polybius
as the basis for the music video for the song "
Less Than
"; the video was released on 13 July the same year.
In August 2017,
Atari, SA
issued a press release, announcing a partnership with Llamasoft to develop
Tempest 4000
on the
PlayStation 4
and
Xbox One
video game consoles
and
Windows
-based
personal computers
.
[30]
It was released in July 2018.
[31]
In March 2018, Minter announced that the framework for the Minotaur Project had also been ported to the
PlayStation 4
and stated an intention to release enhanced versions of the Minotaur Project games as console games in bundles under the name
Minotaur Arcade
. In December 2018, Llamasoft released
Minotaur Arcade Volume 1
on Steam.
[32]
This contained much enhanced versions of
GoatUp
and
Gridrunner
with support for playing on the
Oculus Rift
but also playable in 2D. A PlayStation 4 version of
Minotaur Arcade Volume 1
was released in October 2019.
[33]
Minter revisited the enhanced Minotaur Arcade framework to produce an original game,
Moose Life
, released on Steam in August 2020
[34]
and on Playstation 4 in February 2021.
[35]
In December 2022, Minter announced that he had been contracted to produce a complete and up-to-date version of Atari's abandoned 1982 prototype arcade machine
Akka Arrh
, the original version of which had become available to the wider public as part of the recently published collection
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration
. In 2023,
Digital Eclipse
announced that they would be compiling 42 of Minter's games and releasing them as
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story
, the second entry in their
Gold Master Series
.
[36]
Other appearances
[
edit
]
Minter appeared in the interactive film
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
, released in December 2018. The film is based around the 1980s video game industry in the United Kingdom; Minter played Jerome F. Davies, the author of the titular
Bandersnatch
novel, who murdered his wife.
[37]
Minter also contributed to the documentary film
From Bedrooms to Billions
.
[38]
Minter appears extremely briefly as a background character in
Ashens and the Polybius Heist
.
Personal life
[
edit
]
In online forums and informal game credits pages Minter usually signs as "Yak", which is, in his own words
a pseudonym chosen a long time ago, back in the days when
high score
tables on coin-op machines only held three letters, and I settled on Yak because the
yak
is a scruffy hairy beast ? a lot like me ;-).
[39]
Since 2015, Minter has used the name "Yak" relatively rarely, usually signing as "Stinky Ox" or "Jeff
Minotaur
".
He lives in Wales with his partner Ivan "Giles" Zorzin, four sheep, two goats, two llamas and a dog.
[40]
Although Minter is synonymous with Llamasoft, Zorzin is jointly responsible for the recent titles.
[41]
Minter likes Indian food, particularly chicken vindaloo. Sheep are his favourite animal; he has kept them as pets for many years.
[42]
Games
[
edit
]
Second- and third generation games
[
edit
]
- Deflex
(
VIC-20
,
Commodore PET
)
[43]
- Centipede
(
ZX81
, 1982)
[44]
- 3D Labyrinth
(VIC-20, 1982)
[45]
- Abductor
(VIC-20, 1982)
[46]
- Andes Attack
(VIC-20, 1982)
[47]
a.k.a.
Defenda
- Bomb Buenos Aires
(VIC-20, 1982;
[48]
Atari ST
, 1988) a.k.a.
Aggressor
,
Bomber
,
[49]
Blitzkrieg
- City Bomber
(
ZX Spectrum
, 1982)
[50]
- Gridrunner
(VIC-20,
Atari 8-bit
, ZX Spectrum, 1982;
C64
, 1983)
- Matrix: Gridrunner 2
(VIC-20, 1982; Atari 8-bit and C64, 1983;
C16
, 1986)
- Rat Man
(VIC-20, 1982)
[51]
- Rox III
(VIC-20/ZX Spectrum, 1982)
- Super Deflex
(ZX Spectrum, 1982)
[52]
- Turboflex
(Atari 8-bit, 1982)
[53]
- Attack of the Mutant Camels
(Atari 8-bit and C64, 1983)
[54]
a.k.a.
Advance of the Megacamel
- Headbangers Heaven
(ZX Spectrum, 1983)
[55]
- Hover Bovver
(C64, 1983;
[56]
Atari 8-bit, 1984; Galaxians/Scramble hardware, 2022
[57]
)
- Laser Zone
(VIC-20/C64, 1983; C16, 1986)
- Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time
(VIC-20, 1983; C64, 1984) a.k.a.
Meta-Llamas
- Revenge of the Mutant Camels
(C64, 1983)
- Rox 64
(C64, 1983)
[58]
- Traxx
(VIC-20/ZX Spectrum, 1983)
- Ancipital
(C64, 1984)
[59]
- Hellgate
(VIC-20/C64, 1984)
[59]
- Psychedelia
(VIC-20/ZX Spectrum/C64/
MSX
, 1984), light synthesizer.
- Sheep in Space
(C64, 1984)
[60]
- Batalyx
(C64, 1985)
[61]
- Colourspace
(Atari 8-bit, 1985), light synthesizer.
- Mama Llama
(C64, 1985)
[62]
- Yak's Progress
(C64, 1985) - compilation of eight previously released titles.
[63]
- Iridis Alpha
(C64, 1986)
[62]
- Made in France II
(C64, 1987)
- Return of the Mutant Camels
(C64, 1987;
[64]
Atari 8-bit, 1988) a.k.a.
Revenge of the Mutant Camels 2
- Voidrunner
(C64/
MSX
, 1987)
[65]
Fourth generation games
[
edit
]
- Trip-a-Tron
(Amiga/Atari ST, 1988)
- Super Gridrunner
(Amiga, 1989; Atari ST, 1991)
- Defender II
(Amiga/Atari ST, 1990)
- Photon Storm
(Amiga/Atari ST, 1990)
- Llamatron: 2112
(Amiga/Atari ST, 1991; PC, 1992)
- Revenge of the Mutant Camels
(Amiga/Atari ST, 1991; PC, 1994) enhanced re-release
- Hardcore
(Atari ST, 1992)
[66]
Fifth generation games
[
edit
]
Sixth generation games
[
edit
]
Seventh generation games
[
edit
]
The Minotaur Project
[
edit
]
Eighth generation games
[
edit
]
- TxK
(
PlayStation Vita
, 2014)
[77]
- Minotaur Rescue VR
(
Oculus Rift
,
Windows
, 2014)
- Polybius
(
PS4
,
PlayStation VR
, PC,
Oculus Rift
, 2016)
[78]
- Tempest 4000
(PC,
PS4
,
Nintendo Switch
,
Xbox One
,
Atari VCS 800
)
[79]
- Minotaur Arcade Vol. 1
(combines voxel-based remakes of
Gridrunner iOS
and
GoatUp
) (PC,
PS4
)
[80]
- Moose Life
(PC,
PS4
)
[81]
- Akka Arrh
(PC,
PS4
,
PS5
,
Nintendo Switch
,
Xbox One
,
Atari VCS 800
)
[82]
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