Zoe Quinn Biography
Zoe Quinn is an American video game developer, programmer, and writer who created and launched the interactive fiction game Depression Quest in 2013.
Zoe Quinn Age
He is 36 years old as of January 11, 2023. He was born on January 11, 1987 in United States.
Zoe Quinn Boyfriend
In 2014, their ex-boyfriend’s slanderous blog post launched the Gamergate online harassment campaign, during which Quinn was subjected to considerable harassment, including doxing, rape threats, and death threats.
Zoe Quinn Family
Zo grew up in a little town in New York near the Adirondack Mountains. Quinn’s favorite video game as a kid was Commander Keen, an MS-DOS game about an eight-year-old protagonist who constructs a starship out of household materials and then wanders the galaxy defending Earth.
Zoe Quinn Depression Quest
Perhaps of Quinn’s earliest inventive works, Depression Quest was considered as a “choose-your-own path” experience enumerating the disturbed existence of an individual experiencing sorrow, with large numbers of the “right” ways hindered because of the hero’s battle with mental taking care of oneself. Quinn figured this kind of game story would be an effective method for portraying melancholy, forcing a bunch of decides on players that probably won’t experience such issues in that frame of mind to-day lives. Wretchedness Journey was delivered in February 2013.
Quinn endeavored to distribute the game on Steam Greenlight administration two times – in December 2013 and later in August 2014, when it was acknowledged and delivered by Steam. Melancholy Journey was highlighted in a Playboy article as one of a few computer games managing the emotional experience of discouragement.
Zoe Quinn Books
Quinn contributed a chapter to Videogames for Humans, a book about games created with the Twine program, in 2015. Quinn also wrote a piece for the book The State of Play: Sixteen Voices on Video Games on their experiences producing Depression Quest and the ensuing harassment they received. Quinn appeared in the documentary GTFO in 2015. They also authored a scenario for “Widow’s Walk,” a 2016 extension for Betrayal at House on the Hill.
Quinn released her biography Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate in September 2017. The book has gotten mostly excellent reviews, with critics applauding Quinn’s “thoughtful, nuanced portrayal of Quinn’s harassers” while criticizing the book’s “scattered” narrative flow. The book was nominated for a Hugo Award in 2018 for Best Connected Work (nonfiction work connected to science fiction or fantasy).
Zoe Quinn Chuck Tingle
Quinn was believed to be working on a full motion dating sim with erotica novelist Chuck Tingle under the working title “Project Tingler” in September 2016. The game was eventually titled “Kickstarted in the Butt: A Chuck Tingle Digital Adventure,” and a Kickstarter campaign was launched in October 2016 to raise $69,420 for the project. After a few weeks, the game had raised more than $85,000 from 2,450 backers. Quinn’s work as Narrative Designer for Heart Machine’s upcoming game Solar Ash Kingdom was also confirmed in January 2018.
Zoe Quinn Career
Quinn went to Canada at the age of 24 and made their first step into video game programming. Quinn’s first game was the outcome of a six-week video game development course they took after spotting an advertisement in the newspaper. Quinn claimed subsequently in an interview with The New Yorker, “I felt like I’d found my calling.”
Quinn founded the Game Developer Help List to connect experienced and inexperienced game creators. Quinn was supposed to be a member of the canceled YouTube reality television show “Game_Jam” in 2014, which was supposed to bring together a number of notable independent game creators.
Quinn was a narrative design consultant for Loveshack Entertainment’s iOS game Framed in 2015. Quinn was also working on a full motion video game starring Greg Sestero in 2014.
