Muriel Tramis (born in 1958) is a French video game designer from Martinique. She is known as the first Black woman video game designer. She has written and directed the adventure games Méwilo, Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness, Geisha, Fascination, Lost in Time, and Urban Runner at Coktel Vision. She also co-created the Gobliiins series with Pierre Gilhodes. Tramis was involved in the creation of the ADI range for schoolchildren and college students, and since 2003 has managed Avantilles, a specialist in real-time 3D applications for the web. Early life and education Muriel Tramis was born in 1958 in Fort-de-France, Martinique where she attended school at the convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny and then at the Seminary College. She moved to Paris to pursue a generalist and polyvalent engineering training at ISEP (Institut supérieur d'électronique de Paris). Career Before becoming a French video game creator, she was a computer engineer. Tramis soon began five years at Aérospatiale, where she was responsible for optimizing maintenance procedures for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in addition to handling remotely piloted aircraft used in missile fire tests and anti-ship missiles. After leaving Aérospatiale, she began to explore marketing and communication, alongside interactive programs. In 1986, Tramis joined Coktel Vision, a French video game design and publishing company, leaving in 2003. She describes her time with this company as very satisfying both intellectually and creatively. She helped Coktel Vision develop some of their most well-known and best-selling games. In 1991 Gobliiins sold almost 1.5 million copies in collaboration with Coktel vision. Another one of her most popular games was Lost in Time, an adventure game developed and published by Coktel Vision in 1993. It was promoted as being "The first Interactive Adventure Film using Full Motion Video Technology" and contained four graphical elements, namely full motion video, hand painted and digitized backgrounds and 3D decor. The plot was based upon a woman exploring a shipwreck which has mysteriously been transported back in time to 1840. The ship was still intact so she had no choice but to explore it. This leads to revelations about her past. Tramis quickly became interested in creating stories and images with computers and collaborated with Coktel to create her first adventure game. The result was Méwilo, in collaboration with Patrick Chamoiseau and Philippe Truca. The plot takes place in Saint-Pierre on May 7, 1902, around the time