Working Inside The Industry
Little is known about what it is like to work within the industry as a gay person. The result is that much of the information that does come out is in dispute. Dani Bunten, a MTF transsexual, designed some of the earliest multiplayer games. In 1996, a Maxis employee named Jacque Servin was fired when he put gay characters into the SimCopter game. Depending on the news source, Servin claims to have done it because he was upset at being grossly overworked at Maxis or as some type of political statement.
Famous gay writer and movie director Clive Barker was involved into creation of games Undying and Jericho. Both of these games received a personal subtitle "Clive Barker's".
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