{"id":2018,"date":"2017-10-27T10:54:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2017-10-27T10:54:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:54:16","slug":"historys-first-female-video-game-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/2018\/historys-first-female-video-game-designer","title":{"rendered":"History’s First Female Video Game Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Joyce<\/a><\/p>\n

Ever heard of Joyce Weisbecker? If not, you’ll probably hear her name a lot in the future — at least in video game history.<\/p>\n

FastCompany just published an article I wrote about Weisbecker<\/a>, who was probably the world’s first female professional video game developer, predating the work of Carol Shaw<\/a> by several years.<\/p>\n

In 1976, Weisbecker created two games for the RCA Studio II console (released Jan 1977), which was based on her father’s home computer architecture. Her story is fascinating, and I had a lot of fun bringing it to light. I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n

By the way, if you enjoy seeing this kind of work from me, please consider supporting me on Patreon<\/a>. At this point, Patreon support is absolutely essentia<\/em>l to what I do.<\/p>\n

There are many more stories like this out there, including some I know about already, but they will never be developed without financial support<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever heard of Joyce Weisbecker? If not, you’ll probably hear her name a lot in the future — at least in video game history. FastCompany just published an article I wrote about Weisbecker, who was probably the world’s first female professional video game developer, predating the work of Carol Shaw by several years. In 1976, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,13,9,10],"tags":[1024,1588,1587,979,1540,88,788,1586,1585,1539,182,1589,1590,1001],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-retrogaming","category-computers","tag-1024","tag-cosmac-elf","tag-cosmac-vip","tag-fastcompany","tag-female-game-developers","tag-freelance-work","tag-harry-mccracken","tag-joseph-weisbecker","tag-joyce-weisbecker","tag-pioneers","tag-rca-studio-ii","tag-speedwaytag","tag-tv-schoolhouse-i","tag-video-game-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}