Jennifer Diane Reitz | |
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Born | Baker City, Oregon [1] | December 30, 1959
Nationality | American |
Notable work | Unicorn Jelly |
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Website | jenniverse.com |
Jennifer Diane Reitz (born December 30, 1959) is an American writer, webcomic author, and game designer. [3] She is known for the website Happy Puppy, which she opened with her partners, Stephen P. Lepisto and Sandra Woodruff, [4] and with whom she created the video game Boppin' . [5] Reitz has also done game work for Interplay. [6]
On February 14, 1995, Reitz and her partners launched the game website Happy Puppy where they posted game demos. [7] For a period of time, the website was the most visited game website on the Internet and had about 2.5 million downloads per month during 1996, [8] the same year Happy Puppy was acquired by Attitude Network. [4] The website later went offline in 2006. Reitz writes game reviews and co-founded a family company, Accursed Toys. [9] [10]
Reitz is a trans woman [11] and the founder of the site Transsexuality (transsexual.org), a site with general information on transsexualism that hosts the COGIATI (COmbined Gender Identity And Transsexuality Inventory) test. [12] The test has been criticized for relying on stereotypical views of gender; it assumes, for example, that a lack of interest in mathematics is a feminine trait. [13]
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Then there's Jennifer Reitz, who's done game work for a number of companies, including Interplay. Yup, you guessed it, she didn't start life with a name quite so feminine as Jennifer. She now runs a site about transgender issues.
Jennifer Diane Reitz.