Danielle Bunten Berry

Danielle Bunten Berry, born Daniel Paul Bunten in St. Louis on 19 February 1949 and died on 3 July 1998, was an American game designer and programmer. After an industrial engineering degree in 1974 she began writing text-based games as a hobby and later founded the software company Ozark Softscape. Her best known work is M.U.L.E., published by Electronic Arts in 1983 and counted among the first influential multiplayer video games, followed by The Seven Cities of Gold in 1984, which sold more than 150,000 copies. She took part in the making of twelve games, ten of them built around multiplayer play, and her 1988 title Modem Wars was an early two-player game played over a dial-up modem. The Computer Game Developers Association gave her its Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, and the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences inducted her into its Hall of Fame in 2007.