Rebecca Heineman, legendary game designer, Interplay co-founder, programmer, and the first formally recognized US Space Invaders champion, died at 62 in October
Heineman's cancer fundraiser is now collecting for her funeral. — Game developer Rebecca Heineman has died after being diagnosed with cancer last month.
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@brianfargo
Brian Fargo
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Rebecca Heineman sadly passed away. Known her since the 80s when I'd drive her to work, one of the most brilliant programmers around. A real gut punch earlier today when she messaged me: “We have gone on so many adventures together! But, into the great unknown! I go first!!!” :( …
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@scottapogee
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A game industry legend died a few mins ago, Rebecca Heineman (@burgerbecky), taken away by aggressive lung cancer. She oversaw the porting of Wizordum to the Mac OS most recently for Apogee. My local friends would often have dinner with her and I loved her industry stories and
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My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away. — Fuck cancer. — Friends, let's not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
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Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died
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Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died
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“Burger Becky”, Rebecca Heineman, has died from cancer. She was 62. :-(
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Rebecca Heineman, creator of Bard's Tale 3, Dragon Wars and the person who ported Doom to the 3DO, has passed.