00:00Jeff Minter is an indie video game legend.
00:08He's been around the industry for many years.
00:11Jeff is an example of a self-made man.
00:14It is very interesting to see someone who's never really fallen into the trap of wanting to conform to what the industry thinks anyone should be.
00:22Everyone else was just a company or product and Jeff was Jeff.
00:27He did what he wanted to do for four decades on his terms and that's unprecedented.
00:35He's got this vision of what he wants to make and he's been dogged chasing this forever.
00:42I mean Minter makes games out of love.
00:46They harken back to the early 1980s Arkane games which was experimental game.
00:51It's very fast and very skills-based and we've lost touch with that.
00:56He just makes games. That is cool. That's what he does. Making money out of games. It's a very different skill.
01:03You hear about the high-profile people who are doing video games making millions of money.
01:07But for 99.9% of the people who are doing it, you don't make any money at all.
01:11The business side of things, yeah. It's crippling.
01:17And then on top of that, completely out of the blue, comes his cease and desist.
01:25I was even wondering whether I'd even do games ever again because it was just so damn depressing.
01:31For him to continue for so many years is not just a testament to his durability. You have to be obsessed with the art of it.
01:41I didn't want to give it up.
01:44I think for anybody today, looking at what Jeff had done, the inspiration comes from the fact that he, come hell or high water, found a way to make his vision come out of his head, goes through the keyboard, onto the screen.
01:55There are times when I've been a bit fed up with the games industry. I've been lucky that I have another thread of my career, something that deepened my heart from when I was 11 years old.
02:05He made an awesome set of technology that you could play as an instrument.
02:11And it was just an absolute game changer.
02:16I don't think anyone before that time had anything near it.
02:21We wanted to smuggle this performance thing into, like, the hands of everyone in the world.
02:28That was the plan.
02:30It's the thing the world needs right now.
02:32Get on it. Like, job's not done.
02:35It's just become one of the big stories of his career.
02:39But he has to find an audience.
02:41Can he do that?
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