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heart of neon

a documentary film about a life in videogames

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ABOUT THIS PROJECT

WHO IS JEFF MINTER AND WHY SHOULD I CARE?

Jeff Minter is an artist in the medium of video games. He has managed to stay independent for four decades in a business space where multinational corporations dictate the terms. It is an industry where huge companies buy out smaller operations to increase market share, where the best an up-and-coming developer can hope for is to become a foot-soldier for a big international game label. This is not that story.

Jeff's career is an example of a better way, an unprecedented progression from pioneer to legend, born out of love. It is a model for a sustainable video game career as an independent. Jeff has been designing and programming games since the dawning of home video game entertainment. He has released over 100 video game titles under the banner of his development company, Llamasoft, which he formed back in 1982. He is without doubt one of the most significant and influential videos game developers in the history of home video games, and yet very few people know who he is.

Jeff Minter's story deserves to be told.
 



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Jeff & Giles

Meet Llamasoft
Jeff Minter
The Stinky Ox
 

Video game veteran, Jeff has been making idiosyncratic arcade-style mayhem for nearly forty years. He wrote Deflex for the Commodore PET in 1979, and has been exploring the psychedelic heart in the video game technology ever since.

Ivan Zorzin
Giles The Goat
 

Programmer, electronic engineer, chef, musician, lover of fluffy animals, Ivan's technical prowess and attention to detail perfectly complement Jeff's boundless knowledge of video game design and spirit of digital adventure.

About the Filmmaker




Paul Docherty
d0kk
 

Starting out as a video games graphics designer in the 1980s, Paul has worked in film and television now for over a decade. He has edited documentaries such as FACING FORWARD: A STUDENT'S STORY for PBS, and JODOROWSKY'S DUNE for SONY PICTURES CLASSICS. His animation has also appeared in such television documentaries as GENESIS: TOGETHER AND APART, and LENNON NYC.

HEART OF NEON is Paul's first feature documentary as director.








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