Jeff Minter

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jeff Minter
Occupation	Game Designer
Date Of Birth	Apr 22, 1962(1962-04-22)
Age	62
Birthplace	England
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Jeff Minter Biography

Jeff Minter is one of the most popular and richest Game Designer who was born on April 22, 1962 in England, England, United Kingdom. British indie game designer who was the founder of the software company Llamasoft.

He was a founder of a successful indie software company, much like Yuji Naka.

Minter had expressed an interest in programming computers from a young age. He wrote the game Deflex for the Commodore PET in 1979. However it would not be until a long illness during the school year that Minter’s talents would develop in any meaningful way. Following a three-month stint 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.

In 1981 Minter started independently writing and selling video games for the Sinclair ZX80, the first machine he owned. Some were made for software company dk’tronics. These titles were sold as a package but this was not available for very long, as Minter left the company following a royalties dispute. He formed a partnership with his mother, Hazel Minter. Together they developed and commercially produced 20 games for the Sinclair ZX81, Commodore 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.

He was raised in Reading, England.

Jeff Minter Net Worth

Jeff Minter is one of the richest Game Designer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jeff Minter 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He sold his first independent video game in 1981.

He was known for creating arcade games like Space Invaders Extreme, Space Giraffe, and Neon.

Jeff Minter (born in 22 April 1962 in Reading) is an independent 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 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.

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In 2002, he began work on a music video game for the Nintendo 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 Peter Molyneux’s Lionhead Studios throughout 2003; however, the project was cancelled in December 2004. Neon has since been reprogrammed and significantly expanded and is used in Xbox 360 media visualisation.

Facts & Trivia

Jeff Ranked on the list of most popular Game Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Jeff Minter celebrates birthday on April 22 of every year.

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.