emptyfortress
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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. You can read all about here: https://lgbtqgamearchive.com/games/games-by-decade/1990s/gayblade/ I think all the available info is on there.
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 forums and RPG sites and this looks just like the place to ask So, if you have any information, or even maybe a copy of the game (that would be a miracle!), you'd make a lot of people happy. GayBlade looks like an interesting piece of both CRPG and LGBT history. If you have any idea on where to ask too, I'm all ears
Also, make sure you have safe search on if you search for gay blade, some of the result might be, uh, surprising (or not, depending on your imagination).
Cheers!
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. You can read all about here: https://lgbtqgamearchive.com/games/games-by-decade/1990s/gayblade/ I think all the available info is on there.
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 forums and RPG sites and this looks just like the place to ask So, if you have any information, or even maybe a copy of the game (that would be a miracle!), you'd make a lot of people happy. GayBlade looks like an interesting piece of both CRPG and LGBT history. If you have any idea on where to ask too, I'm all ears
Also, make sure you have safe search on if you search for gay blade, some of the result might be, uh, surprising (or not, depending on your imagination).
Cheers!
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