Post #2312008

2025-11-17 22:47 UTC

Rebecca Heineman is a goddamn legend among women. She did SO much great stuff, from getting Another World to run on 16-bit consoles not in the least bit designed to handle it, to making sure that the Kinect works when you&#39;re wearing a skirt, to tirelessly keeping the mac gaming scene alive, to making the worst version of DOOM kinda glorious in its own way. And she did so much to boost trans visibility. By being so unapolagetically loud and proud as herself there&#39;s absolutely no goddamn way of counting how many of us she helped clear a path for. She will be missed so goddamn hard!

Replies (6)

@gothodile@furs.social 2025-11-17 23:12

@DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz wait what? this is how I find out she's gone? who's saying so?

Open ##2659208
@todd@mouthf.art 2025-11-17 23:45

@DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz oh man did she pass? I know she was fighting like hell :(.

Open ##2659216
@Natanox@chaos.social 2025-11-18 00:22

@DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz I only learn about her and her awesome work now. Shit, this sucks. 😔 She sounds like an absolute fabulous role model. If anyone here got the necessary creds in Wikipedia perhaps they could update her article under "personal life"? It currently says that "Around 2003 Heineman was diagnosed with gender dysphoria and began to identify as a woman". Not sure if that's a framing she preferred, it sounds awfully backwards and somewhat pathologizing (at least to my non-native german ears).

Open ##2659221
@ezwal@social.lol 2025-11-18 03:19

@DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz Out of This World is one of my favorite games. And she worked on Wasteland too!?!?? Holy crap that is a lot of great games. What a terrible loss.

Open ##2659223
@jhooper@techhub.social 2025-11-18 03:38

@DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz so.... I knew her for her work porting Doom to the 3DO single handedly in a few weeks and knew she was supremely talented. I did not know she was trans. Good for her.

Open ##2659225
@reflex@retrogaming.social 2025-11-18 14:40

@DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz Huge loss, and I didn't realize her wife, a legend in her own right, left us last year. They will both be greatly missed.

Open ##2659226