The 'GDC 25' Chronicles: Danielle Bunten Berry's Last GDC Speech
by Jason Scott
November 25, 2010
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/31722/The_GDC_25_Chronicles_Danielle_Bunten_Berrys_Last_GDC_Speech.php[Continuing his 'GDC 25' archival research ahead of the 25th Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next February, official GDC historian Jason Scott unearths the last ever speech at GDC from seminal M.U.L.E. designer Dan Bunten, aka Danielle Bunten Berry.]
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Here, in this 1998 tape, is Dan Bunten, now Danielle Bunten Berry, presenting what was her last GDC speech. Sick and ultimately dying of lung cancer a couple months later, this is possibly the last public recording of her before we lost her forever.
To a lot of transgender folks, Dan/Dani's transformation and unapologetic shifting of phases in her life stands as a pioneering or heroic move, even 12 years after her death; while looking for other footage of Dani I found this TG game developer thrilled at a mention of Bunten during a GDC speech.
