Who is the most important woman in game development history?
Roberta Williams
>only made 6 games between 1978 and 1983Not really. River Raid was fun, though.
>>12469681https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rieko_KodamaRieko Kodama is basically the japanese version of Carol Shaw
>>12469681roberta williams and it's not even close
>>12469692>She was also a fan of Dungeons & Dragons and the character Raistlin Majere from the Dragonlance series. She played the D&D table-top games and read the novels. She enjoyed the way dragons are portrayed with different personalities in western fantasy, which is different from dragons in Japanese culture. Kodama said that her favorite video game was Final Fantasy IV.I could have saved her
>>12469681I wanna sniff her farts
>>12469701Saved her from what? Liking FF4?
>>12469704Leukemia
Woberta Rilliams
Burger Becky.
>>12469685She came to my mind first before anyone else. This question almost seems like Ken made it to see if people thought his wife was better than the other hoes. Because no one did as much for women games as her. The ones before were barely anything.
>>12469685The obvious and correct choice.
>>12469717Her grit in porting Doom to the 3DO in just a few weeks is seriously badass.
>>12469717That's a crossdresser
>>12469685>>12469697>>12469709>creator of sexporn the video gamewhy are women like this?
>>12469717Totally blew all the other women in the gaming industry out of the water.
>>12469685The only correct answer
>>12469771She and her husband were young hippie swingers. They lived free, man.
>>12469685It's weird how they're was a phase that she was hated just because she said pc games should be gatekeep. If only we listened to her
>>12469685Definitely Roberta.What an absolute qt in that picture.
>>12469717>she
>>12469685Jane Jensen was her greatest protege. Gabriel Knight was even more focused on sex
>>12469685fippybippy
>>12469882King's Quest VI is my favorite King's Quest and it had both Roberta and Jane as co-designers and writers.
>>12469717>worked on ports (granted, insane shit that shouldn't be possible)>was transEh, their career outside of wonder ports was like... a handful of original games?
>>12469771The Williams knew early on that controversial shit sells.
Brenda Wraith Romero>Climbed the ladder going from game tester to game designer>Created the most successful installment of the Wizardry series>Published multiple books and gave lectures about game design insights>Is a fan of Black Sabbath
Rieko Kodama, Kazuko Shibuya, Yoko Shinomura, Ayami Kojima, and Kinuyo Yamashita.>>12469717Burger was a man named William. Pic related.
>>12470194/thread
>>12470239Why do you want to give a weeaboo the last word?USA USA USA
>>12470294All of the good games and consoles were made by Japanese people
>>12470294Burger was literally a weeb
>>12470346And look where it got him>>12470194Kazuko Shibuya - artistYoko Shinomura - composerAyami Kojima - artistKinuyo Yamashita - composerThose hoes don't even qualify. That's like pushing Bruce Springsteen or Bob Dylan as the most important people for film.Rieko Kodama - alright, she at least designed and produced some shitty games so she qualifies but Roberta straight-up ate Rieko's lunch.
>>12470354Art and music are extremely important aspects of games. This is part of why nobody liked American made Sega Genesis games that looked like shit and sounded like farts.
>>12470354Roberta never made anything worth while. Rieko made the greatest RPG ever made.
>>12469685Point and click shit isn't vidya
Literally everyone's praising some bitch that just worked on shitty adventure games, that's really the best we got?
>>12470409There's 1 tranny too
>>12469681>>12469685>>12470183>>12470194>shits all over these literally whos by designing the core characters of the world's highest grossing media franchise in your path.
>>12469681Would>>12469685Would>>12469717Fucking gross. Glad he's dead. >>12470183Would>>12470194Would in a 6-some>>12470416Would
>>12470423My feminist studies class warned me about people like you
>>12469681that's a man
>>12469717>>12469775Wasn't Burger Bill Heineman the guy who famously fucked up the SNES Wolfenstein port and kept pretending to be ill, so that ID had to drop DOOM for 3 weeks and port it themselves?https://youtu.be/NnkCujnYNSo?t=1482https://www.shacknews.com/article/116698/apollo-11-situations-john-romero-on-porting-doom-and-wolfenstein-3d>So we didn't have bandwidth to do this Atari character, and the SNES port of Wolfenstein. There were only four or five of us back then.>So we contacted a programmer we knew, who had been around forever in the industry. He was as technical as it got. He'd programmed the Super Nintendo, the Mac, the Apple II--everything. We contacted him and he was super-excited about the SNES port. We gave him all the assets, and continued working on our own thing.>We kind of forget about it. Then, it was March of '93 or so. Seven or eight months had passed. Imagineer came back to Jay and said, "Is the Wolfenstein 3D port done yet?" Jay said, "Oh. Shit." He ran to us and said, "Guys, what's the story with the port?" We said, "Oh. Fuck.">We tried to get in touch with the port guy, and for a while we couldn't. Then one day his wife answered the phone and said, "He's sick," and all kinds of bullshit excuses. We hung up and said, "We have to do the Super Nintendo port as fast as possible, because this guy can't or won't do it."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D>The team was busy with the development of Doom, plus their work on Spear of Destiny, and ignored the project for seven or eight months, finally hiring Rebecca Heineman to do the work. She made no progress on the port, however, and the id team members instead spent three weeks frantically learning how to make Super NES games and creating the port by March 1993.Everything checks out: he's been around forever, working on many systems, he was married, neither Romero nor Carmack nor Hall ever mentions him, when talking about SNES port, only this mysterious fuck-up guy.
metroid
remove all women from game design in history and literally nothing of value is lost.
Heather Gibson made good levels in the Tomb Raider games.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWcenr83_o0&t=215s
>>12470150Rebecca is one of the founders of Interplay.
>>12470519His name is William and he will never be a woman
>>12470524She dealt with dysphoria, yet she outshines all the people you’ve been posting about; they only write or draw without coding or managing anything. Burger Becky co-founded Interplay and pulled off magic on her Apple IIGS, earning even Carmack’s respect. For someone like Reiko Kodama to match Becky, she’d need to be a Sega co-founder, gain notable respect from someone influential like Carmack, and have developed something significant.
>>12469771That was Charles Benton. Sierra had nothing to do with the development of the game, they just licensed it because they thought it was good and likely to sell.
>>12470550>yet "she" outshines all the people you've been posting aboutyeah because that anon was posting women, and you are comparing them to a man. apples and oranges.
>>12470550He/Him
>>12470558>>12470571>Chuds simping on nips.I have weaboo fatigue. Still waiting for a solid argument, though.Rebecca Heineman, co-founder of Interplay, is the most important woman in game development history.
>>12470416>spawned a whole generation of closeted furries and obsessed manchildren>saved a struggling monochrome battery hog gray brick>dominated children's cartoons and became an entry point to the anime menace alongside dragonball>endless money printer with handhelds, cards, mobile/console games and whatever the fuck>refuses to elaborate>leavesSorry bros, there's the woman we're looking for. Ain't no way there's another that accomplished so much by shitposting poorly drawn lighting rats.If she married the creator of sonic, she would be crowned the mother/queen of autism.
>>12470574Do you think biological male athletes should compete on women's sports too?
>>12470579>Anon who has no idea what dysphoria disorder is.Yawn.
>>12470582Having a mental illness doesn't make you a woman, this thread is about female game devs not mentally ill men.
>>12470476True but a discussion about the tallest dwarf is still fun.
>>12470585My child, in this post >>12470579 you’re comparing physical sports (body) with video game development and art creation (mental). You can’t refute Rebecca’s achievements, so you’re resorting to pulling the “le woke” card out of desperation.Rebecca Heineman, co-founder of Interplay, is the most important woman in game development history. Not an opinion but a fact.>>12470550 This post has 2 replies and no rebuttals regarding this argument: "For someone like Reiko Kodama to match Becky, she’d need to be a Sega co-founder, gain notable respect from someone influential like Carmack, and have developed something significant."I have weaboo fatigue.
>>12470608Imagine having Japan living rent free in your head so much you start worshipping trannies.
>>12470613>No rebuttals, no counterarguments, and no logic when comparing the physical with the mental.Yawn. I accept your concession.
>>12470550Just because someone says they are something doesn't mean that it's true. For example lots of old guys show up in your favorite game claiming to be 12 years old but you know they're not. Why do you deny reality and feed into people's lies?
>>12470574>womando you know what words mean?
>>12470608This says a lot about America, imagine your best "female" dev just being a man in a drag
>>12470458Trannies are so disgusting how they have to gaslight everything. That account on Wikipedia is misleading, stating that Burger was contacted at the last minute after several idle months.Here someone made a video about Burger's disastrous 3DO Doom port based on Burger's accounthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxF1_wg2d_QIn it YT guy says Burger did Wolf3d SNES port - I bet Burger probably kept saying that for years.He also says the guy who hired Burger to do the 3DO port didn't provide him the source code, because he had no understanding of how to port a game. I bet he thought Burger already had the source code, since he kept saying he did the SNES port - that's why he hired him.Also Burger just admits about sitting around and doing nothing for weeks and ignoring assets given to him and lying about not receiving them.Fortunately for Burger the guy who hired him turned out to be a pedo and went to jail, so he could just put the whole blame on him and lie about these events unchallenged.
>>12470639I'm Asian. kekFirst a strawman, now an ad hominem. You must be 18 years old to post, my child.
>>12470642>I'm AsianAnd??? What the fuck does that have to do with William being American?
>>12470640So he wasn't even a good dev? Lol
>>12470646I got mixed up; from your writing, I assumed you meant I was American because I mentioned that Rebecca Heineman, co-founder of Interplay, is the most important woman in game development history.
>>12470656>this company that croaked because they sucked is actually really important!Nah still think the Final Fantasy girl and the Pokemon girl are way more important on top of being real women.Not even the anon that bought up Reiko and don't give a fuck about FF but Square is more relevant than Interplay will ever be in the great scheme of things, let alone the titan that's Pokémon. Most important """woman""" just for being the co-founder of not even an important western studio like Bethesda or Rockstar seems pretty dumb since you're comparing such a corpse like Interplay to Sega so often, they are nowhere near the same level of relevance, Sega is still alive and actually made consoles and went to fight the giant that's Nintendo
>>12470416Why did she make so few and then 20 years later only made an update Raichu?
>>12470676Most Pokemon have unknown designers. We don't know what Pokemon she might have designed in addition to the ones listed there.
>>12470642Asia isn't a country retard
>>12470743America isn’t one either, yet they still call themselves “Americans.”
>>12469717Burger King
>>12470667Fallout is a pop culture phenomenon even bigger than Final Fantasy, and Interplay’s legacy carries more impact and influence than nu-Square.
>>12469717Looks like you struck a nerve/vr/ weebs on suicide watch.
>>12470812>Fallout is a cultural phenomenon No thanks to Interplay, thanks to Bethesda >More important than Final FantasyYeah, no. Not even New Vegas had the cultural impact of FF7
>>12470458>>12470640>>12470648>The mythical "troons are good at coding" thing is actually bullshit Jaysus
>>12469681Mitsuru Yamane for her great music
>>12470574he was a bloke and you should kill yourself
>>12470608>Rebecca Heineman, co-founder of Interplay, is the most important woman in game development history.He's not a woman, so he can't be the most important woman in game development history. Go back to 5th grade biology class.
>>12470550Every thing I've ever heard about Burger Bill suggests laziness and incompetence whenever he is entrusted with a project, yet somehow it is always reported as "(s)he was rushed! it's a programming miracle it works at all!!"odd...
>>12470408>>12470409Sounds like you got filtered
>>12471068
/v/ tier thread. /vr/ is truly dead
>>12471128/vr/ is a millennial board, while /v/ is a zoomer board, and its quality surpasses /vr/. Their threads are high quality in comparison.
>>12471124Was/were
>>12471132Generational garbage means nothing. This low quality garbage deserves to be eradicated, no objections.
>>12471124I am God. Address me as such. I said it, so it's true.
>>12471128>>12471132/vr/ is just 6th gen /v/
>>12469717You can read all about Burger Becky here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bard%27s_Tale_(1985_video_game)In the development section, we can be grateful for the contribution, but a piece of shit is a piece of shit
>>12469681>woman
>>12469681If writing and storytelling are factored into development I would say Amy Hennig makes a strong case.
>>12471165>Amy HennigShe’s neither Japanese nor an American troon. Is obvious she isn't the most important woman in game development history
I hate people that speaks retardo, like everyone in this thread
>>12470354Retard.
Here Carmack confirms Burger was the guy who fucked them with the Wolf3d SNES porthttps://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1991223027074560398>Masters of Doom has the details, which I don’t trust myself to rehash from memory, but our collaboration on the SNES port of Wolfenstein 3D completely blew up and left us in a bad position, forcing me to drop what I was doing and do the port myself.And here Burger takes credit for the SNES porthttps://youtu.be/DNC83JpCbQw?t=555
>>12471232I like how almost every top reply is someone furious that he "deadnamed" the guy by referring to him as who he was when he met him (before he was trans). They're absolutely fucking mental.
>>12471232>Wow, I thought Bill Heineman was a hot programmerHold up, Queermack is sus?
>Burger mentioned once>Thread derailedThe burger ghost forever haunts this board.
>>12471413More like the /v/-illness. I wish 4chan dies for good.
>>12471413>>12471418A man shouldn't be mentioned in a thread dedicated to women
>>12470608>"You're a weeb, I hate weebs!">Glazes a literal fatass who wrote Sailor moon and Ranma 1/2 fanfiction in spare time
>>12471556Did you seriously fall for that obvious rage bait? It must be tough to live with autism.
>>12471590>I-I was just pretending being retarded
>>12471596I'm not even that retard, retard.
>>12471662you are obese
>>12471693My fat cock has an obese shaft; glad you point that out.
>>12470623being a woman is more than mental you dipshit.
>>12469685>Roberta WilliamsShe's proof that women themselves aren't the problem, it's just the SJW dumb ones.Roberta rules.
>>12469717OP asked for WOMEN.
>>12471815Are females women?
>>12470810Kek
>>12469681>>12469685IMAGINE the bush
>>12471798That monkey compared sports to art and development, kek. Some of you are so retarded, maybe you're the most.>>12471815Burger Becky was a woman.
>>12471838No, he was a mentally dilusional man.
>>12471851She was a woman, Anon.
>>12471854Women don't have balls, faggot
>>12471857>Women don't have ballsIf you lose your testicles in a car accident or during war, does that mean you become a woman? Interesting! 1 testicle = half man?
>>12471881it's called emasculation, which is not transformation
>>12471881Women are born with wombs, men are born with testicles, education failed you Americans
>>12469717Looneytroons aren't women, and everything he did was before he trooned out anyway.
>>12471917That's my issue with Becky, and I won't deadname her.She is using her time as a man when she developed (bad) games and (worst of all time) ports to try to grab some of the clout as a "female game developer" which legitimately just overshadows the actual female devs who were working while being female.
>>12469681Yoko Shimamura.>>12469685Not even close.
>>12469681Kinu Nishimura.
>>12469685>>12469882Also, Lori Ann Cole created the Quest for Glory games together with her husband. Sierra had some good female talents.
>>12469717If we're going to include trans people: Danielle Bunten made M.U.L.E, Seven Cities of Gold and Command HQ. But like with Heineman, she made most games before transitioning.
>>12469685She made scam "games" that couldn't be completed blindly without relying on pure dumb luck.
She doesn't deserve the #1 spot, but Junko Kawano is worth mentioning for her work on Suikoden I, IV and Tactics. She also made Shadow of Memories.
>>12471514but she's a woman
>>12472290/thread
>>12472290You could argue that Americans are responsible for the enshittification of video games because of the Atari 2600 starting Console Gaming.Without Atari you would just have machines which play Pong or Space Invaders, not cartridges played on a video game console
>>12469689River Raid is very important in the evolution of top down shmups - in fact, it could be considered the first great console shmup as we know them: scrolling background terrain with ground targets, the aerial assault theme, and so on are a lineage that leads to Raiden etc. shmups as we know them and very different from the "battle alien formations against a stark space background" type games of Space Invaders, Galaxian, etc.The use of procedurally generated backgrounds by a clever algorithm that fit within the tiny limits of 2600 ROM cart memory was a stroke of genius as well and makes the game seem like a much larger world.As an aside, her husband co invented public key cryptography and is somewhat a legend in CS research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Merkle
Sandy Pfeiffer probably not but I love Qix
>>12471920Heineman getting accolades as a woman programmer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9M8PLPwP3s
>>12472204>scam "games"Wow, you're retarded
>>12471330They literally think that their name changes should be infinitely retroactive. They see it as their "true" name that they "discovered" rather than a new name they adopted.
>>12474460Master System
>>12469685based mommy
>>12469685fpbp
>>12469728She also, you know, co-founded one of the most important studios in the industry, responsible for creating, diversifying, and expanding the graphic adventure game genre, starting the SWAT franchise, and publishing games like Half-Life, TRIBES, and Homeworld.
>>12474894Liberals must lose their fucking minds reading this.
>>12474930You're retarded
>>12474460Exactly why do you have so many problems catering to the psychotic whims of a few insane people?
>>12470550>>12469717>>12470574>>12470582>>12470608Did combine kegen wander out of the Doom general again?
>>12474930I want Mommy and I want milk!>>12475159I want Mommy and I want milk!>>12475263I want Mommy and I want milk!
>>12470476Fuck you i LOVE river raid
>>12470458The craziest thing about this story is how a Japanese company wanted a Super Famicom port of Wolfenstein 3d.
>>12472231*he's a man
>>12475159He's obviously right you stupid faggot, I don't know whether you identify as a liberal or what but you can't sit there and say he's not completely right in what he's said. Maybe you should put roasties or feminazis to be more preciese.
>>12469681None. I hate women and anything they say or create should be taken with a grain of salt.
>>12470576Don't forget that Pokemon Go was developed by (((them))) to spy on you.https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/03/20/pokemon-go-players-data-used-to-train-visual-positioning-ai/In the 21st century, slaves are happy when forced to build their own prison cages.
>>12470608They have separate women chess tournaments for a reason, anon. Look it up. You'll find the same is true for Go, Shogi and most other games of intellect and skill. Vidya competitions also do this. Sexual dimorphism and HBD are real.
>>12469706>Leukemiais that what really claimed her life?
>>12469685The GOAT
>>12475461t. also retardedYou two live in a fucking echo chamber and it's made you stupid
>>12475832Is Roberta wrong?>>12472324Fairchild invented cartredges. UwU
>>12475853>Is Roberta wrong?No, that's not why you're stupid
>>12475864You're not my mom so stop talking like her!!! Sniff. sniff...
>>12474894To be fair she's saying all this from the perspective of being a Sierra co-founder. Who's going to discriminate against their boss? No one is going to slap their bosses' ass and play coy that it was just an accident. Amy Hennig once said something similar and I'd put more value in that since she actually started at the bottom and rose to the top.
>>12475363Can't you just be satisfied with challenging a narrative?
>>12475880Women are simply not oppressed in the way they want everyone to believe. Most women just think that if everyone isn't falling head over heels worshipping them then they're being discriminated against. They don't actually want to be treated as equals to men.
>>12475992I am satisfied with your penis!
>>12469681Roberta Williams probably, technically Ada Lovelace too, seems all videogames use computing.
>>12476404>Ada LovelaceThere's some historical revisionism claiming that she might have been a fake, a prop for Babbage to promote his stuff on account of her being Lord Byron's daughter.
I'm gonna be honest, 90% of women in the industry back in the day knew their stuff. This was not an industry you went into unless you were actually passionate in it.
many will seethe but unironically Zoe Quinn
>>12476460Yeah, sounds like bullshit, people who knew her said she was fucking brilliant
>>12470476you lose street fighter 2, almost all dating sims, a chunk of rpgs, and around half of character design art form about 1999 on.
>>12469821God help me that was difficult to read
that chick who programmed Centipede?
>>12470576youre posting about video games on 4chan, youre the definition of a manchild. get off your high horse, faggot. youre no better than anyone else
>>12476636so nothing of value
>>12476582And there was a relatively minimal social value for doing so, outside of fellow nerds, who back in the day weren't showering you with money just because you were a gamer girl.
>>12470582>dysphoria disordermade-up jewish nonsense created by the pedophile john money
>>12471881female = xx chromosomesmale = xy chromosomesend of story, tranny
>>12470812>Fallout is a pop culture phenomenonkek no its not. get out of your tranny bubble once in a while, faggot
Jade Raymond
>>12469681Probably uhhhLaura croft?Wait, outside of the game? Idk
Stand aside hoes.
>>12469685I agree. She is also pretty cute.
>>12474930Meh, your mind is still stuck in 2014 - 2019
>>12469717>troon>his only known legacy is coding the worst fucking doom port in video game historymy fucking sides
>>12472231I'm pro trans, but everything Burger did (if he actually did it and wasn't a colossal fuck up like I think he now is) was prior to the transition, so it's practically stolen valor AND re-writing history.
>>12470423Rein it in anon. I don't fault you too much because I know the lust drive all too well, but rein it on in buddy.
>>12471826You have fee males which are males you pay to have sex with. They charge a fee.Then there are woe men. These are men who are sorrowful about the state of the aforementioned ones.
>>12469681Your mom LMAOOPs mom contributed to gaming history AHAHAHAHA
>>12475880The truth is that men love working with women. And then there's that one asshole who molests the one chick and ruins it for all the guys.
>>12479467pretty clearly not true, since countries basically have to force it top-down
>>12479393Thank you anon. You have great knowledge.
>>12469717troons aren't real women, stop undermining the effort of real women
>>12481339/thread I guess the tranny brainrot has even reached /vr/.
