emptyfortress
Barely Literate
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Hi folks,
long story short: some people who have been doing research for a coming exhibition in Berlin about LGBT in gaming have discovered a 1992 (or 1993, it's not really clear yet) parody fantasy RPG for Mac and DOS called GayBlade. Unfortunately, not much has been found about it yet: the developer doesn't have a copy and lost the source code, nobody has come up with the game files, the only traces we have so far are articles in the press and scans of a few pages of the manual. Most of the info you can find on the game is on this page: https://lgbtqgamearchive.com/games/games-by-decade/1990s/gayblade/
A (possible) clue is that it began life as Dragon Blade, but as I understand it the publisher deal for it fell through and the dev redesigned it and it became GayBlade. Maybe that rings a bell?
Anyway, I've been asking around software preservation communities if people knew more, and the codex seems like the place to ask for anything crpg-related. So, does anyone have any info on this game, or maybe even the a copy of the game lying around on some old floppies? Any info (or pointers to other places/people to ask) gratefully received.
Thanks!
long story short: some people who have been doing research for a coming exhibition in Berlin about LGBT in gaming have discovered a 1992 (or 1993, it's not really clear yet) parody fantasy RPG for Mac and DOS called GayBlade. Unfortunately, not much has been found about it yet: the developer doesn't have a copy and lost the source code, nobody has come up with the game files, the only traces we have so far are articles in the press and scans of a few pages of the manual. Most of the info you can find on the game is on this page: https://lgbtqgamearchive.com/games/games-by-decade/1990s/gayblade/
A (possible) clue is that it began life as Dragon Blade, but as I understand it the publisher deal for it fell through and the dev redesigned it and it became GayBlade. Maybe that rings a bell?
Anyway, I've been asking around software preservation communities if people knew more, and the codex seems like the place to ask for anything crpg-related. So, does anyone have any info on this game, or maybe even the a copy of the game lying around on some old floppies? Any info (or pointers to other places/people to ask) gratefully received.
Thanks!
