Sunday, October 12, 2025

"Bard's Tale" Developer Fighting Aggressive Cancer

Happy fall, everyone. While you're waiting for my blog to return on 20 October, please consider donating to the "GoFundMe" for Rebecca Ann ("Burger") Heineman, who is fighting a sudden and aggressive cancer whose treatments are only partly covered by insurance. 
 
Ms. Heineman was an early programmer for Interplay and worked on The Bard's Tale (1984), Borrowed Time (1986), Tass Times in Tonetown (1986), The Bard's Tale III (1988), and Dragon Wars (1990). She has remained in the gaming industry right into the modern era, her most recent game (according to MobyGames's ludography) the PC and Mac ports of Nightdive's Killing Time: Resurrected (2024).