# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeff-minter
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:26:51.068Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeff-minter"
name: "Jeff Minter"
slug: "jeff-minter"
description: "Jeff Minter is an English video game designer and programmer who often goes by the nickname Yak. He co-founded independent video game developer Llamasoft in 1982 and was the sole game designer and programmer until Ivan Zorzin started being co-credited in 2008. Minter has created dozens of games, starting in 1981 for the ZX80, then later the ZX Spectrum, VIC-20, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit computers, Amiga, Atari ST, Jaguar, and other systems. A majority of Minter's projects are shoot 'em ups, often based on games from the golden age of arcade video games such as Defender, Tempest, and Robotron: 2084. Minter has evolved a game design style which combines psychedelic visuals, references to ruminants, and quirky audio samples."
tagline: "British video game designer (born 1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jeff_Minter_-_GDC_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1962-04-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           62.58
  momentum:             2.110874200426439
  historical:           13.40641333333333
  currentAttention:     9.594882729211086
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 44
totalFollowers: 2830
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/llamasoft_ox"
    handle:    "llamasoft_ox"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2812076/"
    handle:    "nm2812076"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/"
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    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAVLr_WIuaF6t_DW3qr0Q1A"
    handle:    "@stinkyox"
    followers: 2830
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jeff Minter"
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    title: "Jeff Minter"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jeff Minter"
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    title: "Jeff Minter"
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    title: "Jeff Minter"
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    title: "Jeff Minter"
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    title: "Jeff Minter"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump