I recently fell down a rabbit hole reading about the game M.U.L.E. and stumbled upon what is probably widely known, but I thought I’d share anyways: the creator was trans. Unfortunately, she died very young due to lung cancer, but she has been honored several times post-humously and seems like an awesome person.
I don’t know, didn’t have much more to say, but thought I’d share this cool person in video game history.
After her transition in fall 1992, Berry stayed out of the video game spotlight, mostly keeping to herself. She felt as though that after transitioning she was not as good at video game development as she had previously been, stating “So, I’m a little more than three years into my new life role as Ms. Danielle Berry, and her career looks to be somewhat different from old Mr. Dan Bunten’s. For one thing, I’m not as good a programmer as he was.”
So infuriating she was shunned by the video game industry post transition, not a shocker though. I am struggling between taking her above comment as internalized personal failure or she is making a jab at the industry for suddenly pivoting their position on her programming skills? If it is the former that is actually really fucking sad.
