Forum: The future of M.U.L.E.

From an interview with Danielle Berry before her death:

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Rumors of an updated M.U.L.E. resurface every so often. What's your relationship with the game been like over the years?

That game requires a very special platform to be re-released. At minimum it needs a way for four players to interact simultaneously. Not since the Atari 800 has a mainstream platform included that capability without special adapters. I'm working with Mpath Interactive right now to see what we can do to bring an Internet version to market. It'll require some significant design changes since people won't actually be sitting side-by-side on the net. Also it won't be called "M.U.L.E." since in perfect irony, even though the rights to the game and the design have reverted to me, EA owns the name--the name they didn't want us to use!

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If the rights to the game and design (but not the name!) reverted to her, who owns them now? Her heirs? Maybe they be willing to give it away free to allow someone to port the game to a modern computer? What happened to the work she was doing with Mpath Interactive on an Internet version?