Anne Westfall is an American video game programmer and software developer, known for 1983's Archon: The Light and the Dark, originally written for the Atari 8-bit computers.
Westfall and her spouse, fellow game developer Jon Freeman, together founded Free Fall Associates.
[2] Before moving into the video game industry, Westfall worked as a programmer for a civil engineering firm Morton Technology, where she developed the first microcomputer-based program designed to help lay out subdivisions.
Westfall cited a desire to learn assembly language and to work on the Atari 800 as one reason for their departure from Epyx.
[4][5] Westfall met Jon at the West Coast Computer Faire in 1980 while demonstrating her surveying program she wrote for the TRS-80.