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-d … 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 places and people I know have an interest in software preservation and I've been pointed to here, so if anyone has any info on this, or even (and that would be a minor miracle), has a copy of it lying around, you'd make a lot of people happy. It looks like an interesting piece of both CRPG and LGBT history. If you know of other places I could ask, let me know too, so I can go pester someone else 😀

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!