Interplay Co-founder Rebecca Heineman Dies

Rebecca Heineman, co-founder of video crippled institution Interplay Entertainment, has died astatine 62. As Rock Paper Shotgun has reported, her friends and colleagues from nan manufacture collapsed nan news connected their societal media accounts. According to Heineman’s GoFundMe campaign, she was diagnosed pinch adenocarcinoma a fewer months ago. In her past update, she revealed that “all further treatments [were] pointless” and that each donations will spell towards her ceremonial being arranged by her children. Heineman’s past station connected Instagram was a tribute to her woman Jennell Jaquays who died successful 2024 owed complications brought by Guillain–Barré syndrome.

Heineman won nan Atari 2600 Space Invaders title successful 1980 earlier she was offered a occupation arsenic a programmer astatine 16 years aged by Avalon Hill Games. She past co-founded Interplay arsenic Interplay Productions backmost successful 1983 pinch Brian Fargo, Jay Patel and Troy Worrell. Under Interplay, she designed The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate among different games. In 1999, she founded Contraband Entertainment, which worked connected nan Mac OS ports for Aliens vs. Predator and Baldur's Gate II. Heineman besides worked arsenic a elder package technologist astatine Electronic Arts, elder motor programmer astatine Ubisoft Toronto and elder package designer astatine Sony Computer Entertainment America.