Cathryn Mataga

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Cathryn Mataga (formerly William Mataga)[1][2][3][4] is a game programmer and founder of independent video game company Junglevision.[5]

Biography

Mataga designed the game Shamus in 1982,[3] which she wrote under the name William for the Atari 400 and 800 computers.[2] Much of the game's appeal was said to come from Mataga's sense of humor, such as creating a "grand rendition" of the Alfred Hitchcock theme song in the game's introduction.[6]

Steve Hales of Synapse Software, in an interview for the book Halcyon Days, states that he and Mataga convinced company founder Ihor Wolosenko to get the company into interactive fiction.[7]

Mataga developed an interactive fiction programming language known as BtZ (Better than Zork) for Brøderbund in the early 1980s.[4] Mataga worked with Hales and poet Robert Pinsky on the interactive fiction game Mindwheel (1984).[4]

Mataga was one of the programmers working at Stormfront Studios on the original Neverwinter Nights MMORPG.[8] Don Daglow credits Mataga as one of the programmers who made Daglow's assertion come true that he could make the game a success.[9]

Credited games

References

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  7. Halcyon Days interview with Steve Hales
  8. http://books.google.com/books?id=6dgTAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Cathryn+Mataga%22&dq=%22Cathryn+Mataga%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Gjp4U8rPDtahyATtx4LYCA&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBA
  9. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/102180/Column_Playing_Catch_Up_Stormfront_Studios_Don_Daglow.php
  10. Charla, Chris (November 2001). "Digital Eclipse's Rayman Advance", Game Developer 8 (11): 42–48.Archived
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