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Amy Briggs
American video game implementor
Amy Ruth Briggs (born 1962[1][2]) is an American video game implementor known for creating Plundered Hearts, an interactive fictioncomputer game published by Infocom in 1987.
Early life
At one point in her youth, Briggs was a babysitter of Ron Gilbert, who went on to design the pirate-themed adventure game Monkey Island.[3] A Minnesota native, she graduated from Macalester College in 1984 with a B.A.
in English, specializing in British literature.
Amy briggs pianist biography
Career
Already a fan of Infocom's games, Briggs joined the company in 1985 as a game tester. Working long hours playtesting games and learning the ZIL programming language, she quickly rose to the rank of implementor.[4]
Briggs's literary background led her to write the company's only romance-genre text adventure.
She also chose an explicitly female lead character, again unique for Infocom (other lead characters were either of unspecifie