[4] Under the name William, she wrote Atari 8-bit computer games for Synapse Software in the early to mid 1980s, including Shamus, a flip-screen shooter.
[6] Mataga followed it with a sequel Shamus: Case II and scrolling shooter Zeppelin.
[7] Mataga developed an interactive fiction programming language known as BtZ (Better than Zork) for Broderbund, in the early 1980s.
[3] Mataga worked with Hales and poet Robert Pinsky on the interactive fiction game Mindwheel (1984).
[3] Mataga was one of the programmers working at Stormfront Studios on the original Neverwinter Nights MMORPG.