Anna Anthropy is an American

United States

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 video game designer and critic

Critic

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. She has developed a number of freeware

Freeware

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 games including Mighty Jill Off

Mighty Jill Off

Mighty Jill Off is a 2D platform independently developed freeware video game designed by Anna Anthropy, with art by James Harvey and music by Andrew Toups. It stars a submissive named Jill, who has a boot fetish and is forced to climb up a tower after her Queen kicks her down it as punishment....

, REDDER, and Lesbian Spider Queens of Mars, and is a co-founder and associate editor of The Gamer's Quarter. Her games explore the relationship between sadism and game design

Game design

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; Anthropy's games challenge player's expectations of what the developer should create and how the player should be reprimanded for errors. Anna Anthropy is a male to female transgender

Transgender

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 woman.

In 2010, working with Koduco, a game development company based in San Francisco, Anthropy helped develop the iPad

IPad

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 game "Pong Vaders". In 2011, she announced the upcoming publication of her first book, Rise of the Videogame Zinesters, through Seven Stories Press

Seven Stories Press

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. The book takes the title of her 2008 article for The Escapist.

Games

• Lesbian Spider Queens of Mars (released through Adult Swim
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• REDDER
• Octopounce
• Shootin' Starcade!
• Chicanery
• This Little Piggy
• Calamity Annie
• Mind Fuck
• When Pigs Fly
• Tombed
• Mighty Jill Off
  Mighty Jill Off
  Mighty Jill Off is a 2D platform independently developed freeware video game designed by Anna Anthropy, with art by James Harvey and music by Andrew Toups. It stars a submissive named Jill, who has a boot fetish and is forced to climb up a tower after her Queen kicks her down it as punishment....
  
  
• Jill Off With One Hand
• Town
• In The Woods
• Robot Gardening
• Pong Vaders (on iTunes
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External links

• Auntie Pixelante, Anthropy's official website
• The Gamer's Quarter magazine