Interaction co-founder Rebecca Heineman dies

Rebecca Heineman, co-founder of online game firm Interaction Leisure, has died at 62. As Rock Paper Shotgun has reported, her pals and colleagues from the business broke the information on their social media accounts. In response to Heineman’s GoFundMe campaign, she was recognized with adenocarcinoma a number of months in the past. In her final replace, she revealed that “all additional remedies [were] pointless” and that every one donations will go in the direction of her funeral being organized by her kids. Heineman’s final submit on Instagram was a tribute to her spouse Jennell Jaquays who died in 2024 due issues introduced by Guillain–Barré syndrome.

Heineman received the Atari 2600 House Invaders championship in 1980 earlier than she was provided a job as a programmer at 16 years previous by Avalon Hill Video games. She then co-founded Interaction as Interaction Productions again in 1983 with Brian Fargo, Jay Patel and Troy Worrell. Underneath Interaction, she designed The Bard’s Story III: Thief of Destiny amongst different video games. In 1999, she based Contraband Leisure, which labored on the Mac OS ports for Aliens vs. Predator and Baldur’s Gate II. Heineman additionally labored as a senior software program engineer at Digital Arts, senior engine programmer at Ubisoft Toronto and senior software program architect at Sony Pc Leisure America.