Dot MaetrixMay 29

So this is a thing that is VERY VERY much nowhere near done yet, but I want to share what I've got so far. It's a list of as many retro games as I can find which had a trans person on the dev team or otherwise involved in some way, along with a quick summary of who and what they did. It's partially an attempt to counter the narrative that trans people are some New Thing that's only just showed up on the gameing scene and also society in general, which sometimes these kinds of lists can accidentally imply, and also it's just kind of a fun bit of HEY LOOK AT ALL THIS COOL SHIT TRANS PEOPLE DID. I've found over 170 games so far, with quite a lot I'm still to properly go off on.

(Edit: That's over 300 (!) games now. Thank you SO much people who've pointed me at stuff I've missed. I'll be working on trying to play all of these and write up stuff about the ones I haven't really said anything about yet.)

https://dotmaetrix.neocities.org/classictranslist

A List Of Games By Trans People Before 2010

Show threadSusan CalvinMay 29
@DotMaetrix have you got "everything ever written in BBC Basic" because they all had Sophie Wilson to thank for the environment?
Show threadDot MaetrixMay 29
@Susan_calvin and considering her work on ARM architecture, every GBA game and every mobile game.
Show threadSusan Calvin
@DotMaetrix I had that at one more remove but yes. BBC Basic was such an amazing interpreter.
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Show threadDot MaetrixMay 29

@Susan_calvin While I was looking stuff up for this I also learned that Jamie Fenton, as part of her work on the Bally Astrocade, wrote the BASIC for that console as well.

so yeah, trans people writing BASIC is a thing that happened at least TWICE in the early days of computing

Show threadTrans RescueJun 4
@DotMaetrix @Susan_calvin
At least 3 times. I implemented a BASIC for the Apple ][