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== Early life == == Early life ==

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Zoe Quinn
Zoe Quinn in 2014
Born1987 (age 27)
United States
OccupationVideo game developer
Known forDepression Quest

Zoe Quinn (born 1987) is the pseudonym of an American independent video game developer and 2D artist. Quinn developed the interactive fiction Depression Quest, co-created with Patrick Lindsey and Isaac Schankler, a Twine game released on Steam.

Early life

Zoe Quinn was born in 1987 and spent her childhood in a small town near the Adirondack Mountains in New York. Growing up, she often played video games. One of her favorites was Commander Keen, an MS-DOS game featuring an eight-year-old protagonist who builds a spaceship with items found around his house and then travels the galaxy defending the Earth. As a teenager, Quinn suffered from depression; she was diagnosed with the condition at the age of 14. She has described receiving little sympathy or assistance from school district officials, who were, she says, "less than understanding about teens with depression and suicide issues".

Career

At the age of 24, Quinn moved to Canada, where she made her first forays into video game programming. Her first game was the result of a six-week course on video-game creation that she attended after seeing an advertisement in a newspaper. In a later interview for The New Yorker, she said of this experience, "I felt like I'd found my calling."

Depression Quest

Main article: Depression Quest

Through her early game-development work, Quinn met Patrick Lindsey, a writer. Like Quinn, Lindsay struggled with depression. He felt that existing video games that dealt with the subject did not adequately depict the real emotions associated with depression, instead utilizing metaphor and symbolism. He suggested to Quinn that they write a new video game to better help others understand their experience. Quinn thought a game would be a good way to depict depression, imposing a set of rules on players they might not otherwise experience in their day-to-day lives.Quinn and Lindsay teamed with Isaac Schankler for the game's music, and released the final result of their collaboration, the text-based Depression Quest, in February 2013.

Depression Quest details the troubled life of a person suffering from depression. Quinn attempted to publish the game on Steam Greenlight service twice — in December 2013 and later in August 2014, when it was accepted and released by Steam.

Harassment and Gamergate

In December 2013, while attempting to publish Depression Quest, Quinn reported that she had become the target of harassment, both online and through sexually explicit phone calls. Shortly after the game was released in August 2014, Eron Gjoni, Quinn's ex-boyfriend, published a post on his blog accusing her of infidelity. After the posting, Quinn became the target of a widespread campaign of harassment and abuse. The campaign included the publication of sensitive personal information online and the hacking of her Tumblr account by someone claiming to be from "/v/", the main gaming forum on the 4chan website. These events were the spark igniting a video game controversy that came to be known as Gamergate. Gamergate eventually influenced both the wider video game culture and discussions about feminism and misogyny in the sociology of the Internet. One aspect of the controversy centered on a dispute between Quinn and the group The Fine Young Capitalists, over the latter's women in video games project.

At the height of the #GamerGate controversy, according to The New Yorker, doxing-related harassment escalated to the point where Quinn no longer felt safe at home. She described her experience in a blog post on Cracked.com as "a ceaseless barrage of random people sending you disgusting shit," causing her insomnia and nightmares. She wrote that it "felt like it was the entire world" even though she understood that it was really "a small minority of the angry and disenfranchised." She detailed her harassment further in her first and only television interview to date from an undisclosed location on MSNBC's Ronan Farrow Daily in late October. Regarding the industry as a whole, she regarded her detractors as becoming increasingly irrelevant due to the democratization of game-making tools.

Other projects

In addition to her own game development projects, Quinn is also known for creating the Game Developer Help List designed to bring experienced game developers and novice developers into contact with one another. In 2014, Quinn was to be part of the cancelled YouTube reality television show codenamed "Game_Jam," which was intended to bring together a number of prominent indie game developers.

Quinn has joined Loveshack Entertainment as Narrative Designer for the upcoming iOS game Framed. Quinn is also working on a full motion video game starring Greg Sestero.

Personal life

Quinn is interested in body modification, and has implanted a chip in the back of her hand that can be programmed to perform various functions. Her first use of the chip was to load it with the download code for the game Deus Ex. She also has a magnetic implant in her left ring finger.

References

  1. @TheQuinnspiracy (Zoe Quinn) (October 13, 2014). "1987 is my birth year. I am 27". twitter. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
  2. ^ Parkin, Simon (September 9, 2014). "Zoe Quinn's Depression Quest". The New Yorker. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  3. "'Depression Quest' Now Available on Steam". Game Politics. August 13, 2014. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  4. ^ "Why the co-creator of Depression Quest is fighting back against Internet trolls". Edge. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  5. ^ "Depression Quest Now Available on Steam for Free". AusGamers. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  6. Carly Smith (14 December 2013). "Depression Quest Dev Faces Harassment after Steam Submission". The Escapist. Retrieved 30 May 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  7. Kuchera, Ben (19 March 2014). "Developer Zoe Quinn offers real-world advice, support for dealing with online harassment". Polygon. Retrieved 27 Aug 2014.
  8. Polo, Susana (13 December 2013). "The Two Most Inexplicable Examples of Video Game Community Harassment This Week". The Mary Sue. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  9. Wooley, Emma M. (27 August 2014). "Don't believe the 'conspiracy,' gaming has bigger problems than 'corruption'". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  10. ^ Marcotte, Amanda (22 August 2014). "Gaming Misogyny Gets Infinite Lives: Zoe Quinn, Virtual Rape, and Sexism". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  11. Auerbach, David (27 August 2014). "Letter to a Young Male Gamer - Some ground rules to keep in mind in the wake of an ugly, sexist scandal". Slate. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  12. ^ Kaplan, Sarah (12 September 2014). "With #GamerGate, the video-game industry's growing pains go viral". Washington Post. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  13. Romano, Aja (20 August 2014). "The sexist crusade to destroy game developer Zoe Quinn". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  14. Sanghani, Radhika (10 September 2014). "Misogyny, death threats and a mob of trolls: Inside the dark world of video games with Zoe Quinn - target of #GamerGate". The Telegraph. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  15. Hern, Alex (12 September 2014). "Zoe Quinn on Gamergate: 'We need a proper discussion about online hate mobs'". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  16. Ringo, Allegra (28 August 2014). "Meet the Female Gamer Mascot Born of Anti-Feminist Internet Drama". Vice. Retrieved 16 September 2014. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  17. Quinn, Zoe (16 September 2014). "5 Things I Learned as the Internet's Most Hated Person". Cracked.com. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  18. /ronan-farrow-daily/watch/exclusive--woman-who-sparked-gamergate-345327171549
  19. Wawro, Alex (18 December 2013). "Game Developer Help List rallies industry vets to aid rookie devs". Gamasutra. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  20. Matulef, Jeffrey (1 April 2014). "Game jam reality show cancelled as indies wouldn't put up with its s***". Eurogamer. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  21. Griffiths, Daniel Nye (30 April 2014). "Quest Love - 'Depression Quest' Creator Zoe Quinn Joins Hot Indie 'Framed'". Retrieved 17 September 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  22. Donaldson, Ricky (18 April 2014). "Zoe Quinn's Follow Up To Depression Quest is a FMV Game". Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  23. ^ Hernandez, Patricia (7 May 2014). "Woman puts Deus Ex on computer chip in her hand". Kotaku. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  24. Kleppek, Patrick (2014). "Zoe Quinn has embraced our cybernetic future". Giant Bomb. Retrieved 8 May 2014.

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