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Amy Briggs

Amy Briggs has worked on games as early as 1986 and as recently as 1989. Has been credited with Playtesting, Design, Documentation and Writing / Dialogue / Story. Has worked with the following game development companies: Infocom and Tom Snyder Productions.

(Courtesy www.mobygames.com.)

Briggs began as many others as a tester for Infocom in 1984 and she went on to write a pioneering game from a woman's perspective with game enough for men to play as well. It was called Plundered Hearts.

"There was a swashbuckler; Cutthroats had already come out and there was a spy game being worked on - these were all kind of men things and I thought 'let's do something for women.'" The result was an Elizabeth Bennett-meeting-James Bond-type of adventure.

Briggs says she had "a helluva lot of fun" as Imp, something regulated to memory now as she is a cognitive psychology graduate student at the University of Minnesto studying how people read.

(Courtesy www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom.)

GAMES WORKED ON

Plundered Hearts