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Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Doorknob@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Incredibly sad news. You'd always see her popping up in places you wouldn't expect, YouTube comment threads, discord servers. I followed her mastodon posts and it was heartbreaking to read her posts about looking after Jennell in her final months, but she was so upbeat and warm as well in her interactions with people. Her work is of course legendary and Jennell too made some of the Quake maps that I still play to this day.

I do like to think though that is nice that the two of them are reunited. RIP Burger Becky.