When I posted on twitter to share my post on Rebecca Heineman on Matt Chat, I got a reply from her. After a good two minutes of fan girling over it, I read what she wrote. She let me know that Jennell Jaquays was also interviewed on Matt Chat. I have to admit that I didn’t know anything about Jennell Jaquays.
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Magic: The Gathering Introduces First Transgender Character
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
Art by Anastasia Ovchinnikova
I have played Magic: The Gathering before in the past, but I’m not a huge fan of the series. I have played the digital version of the game from time to time. I also have not gotten into the many different novels and short stories written about the franchise. There was one online short story that sparked my attention.
About a week ago the Fate Reforged set was released with the digital version to be released on February 2, 2015. On January 28, 2015 a short story about one of the characters, Alesha, Who Smiles at Death, was posted titled “A Truth of Names”.
Rebecca Heineman Interview on Matt Chat
Matt Chat is a YouTube Channel with weekly discussions on video games with Dr. Matt Barton. Barton is an associate professor in English at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Back in December of 2010 he conducted an interview with Rebecca Heineman.
Heineman is a video game programmer who is responsible for such classic titles such as The Bard’s Tale III: The Thief of Fate, Dragon Wars, Tass Times in ToneTown, Borrowed Time, Mindshadow, and The Tracer Sanction. She is also a transgender woman who started to transition in November 2003. She’s just one example of the handful of trans women who are working within the video gaming industry. Yet, in my opinion, she is one of the more mainstream names within the industry.
Video Game Review: The Simpsons Tapped Out
I downloaded The Simpsons: Tapped Out on my iPhone over a year ago and I’m still playing this game almost every day. I usually don’t play iPhone based city builder games more than a week or two. After a while it gets very repetitive and there is a long down time until you actually get to build anything. Although there can be a 24-hour wait for something complete in Tapped Out, this down time didn’t shy me away from the game. What kept me loving this game is the same thing that kept me loving the television series: the great comedy and story telling.
Video Game Review: Craft the World
Craft the World is a very fun and addicting simulation game. You start off the game with one dwarf, a storage location and a shop to buy things. There is also technology tree where you have to complete a number of items crafted to reach the next tier. You use your dwarf to locate the items required, which could be a plant, an animal or a mineral. When you start crafting you will gain experience points to reach the next level. At each new level you gain one new dwarf to help with your city.