The Designer’s Designer

This is an article about the work of Danielle Bunten Berry (nee Dan Bunten) who created several of the most influential games of the 8-bit era, including Seven Cities of Gold and M.U.L.E. I remember playing both of those on my Commodore 64 as a child and absolutely loving them.

She was a remarkable visionary in terms of multiplayer games. It's really sad that she died just as the Internet was taking off. Over the ten years since her death in 1998 we've seen multiplayer games played over the Internet go from a small niche thing to completely dominating the industry, but she was trying to do this stuff in the 80s and early 90s!