Zoë Quinn

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Zoë Quinn at the XOXO Festival 2015 in Portland, Oregon (USA)
Zoë Quinn at the XOXO Festival in Portland, Oregon (2015)

Zoë Tiberius Quinn , birth name Chelsea van Valkenburg, (born 1987 in the USA ) works in the field of game development , programming , as well as writing and artistic and lives in Boston , USA. Quinn developed the interactive fictional game Depression Quest , which was released in 2013. In 2014, a blog post from Quinn's ex-boyfriend sparked the GamerGate controversy , in which Quinn fell victim to online hate speech. Quinn sees himself as non-binary and prefers a gender-neutral address.

Life

Zoë Quinn grew up as an only child in a small town near the Adirondack Mountains in New York . Quinn attempted suicide at the age of 12 and was diagnosed with depression at 14. Quinn also has ADHD . Quinn was also diagnosed with post- traumatic stress disorder following the GamerGate events .

His father, a motorcycle wrench, gave Quinn a used computer, a 3DO console, that he had bought at a flea market. The video games on it became refuge, including Commander Keen , an MS-DOS series starring an eight-year-old protagonist who builds a spaceship from items found near his home and then travels the galaxy to defend Earth.

After graduating from high school, Quinn stayed in her home region for another six years, experiencing intermittent depression and working his way through a number of short-term jobs, including stripping, singing in punk bands, and at retailer GameStop . At 19, Quinn married and the couple lived hand-to-mouth, sometimes slept in the car or did couch surfing with friends. The relationship ended in 2010.

Quinn identified himself as non-binary in January 2017 and claims to be designated in a gender-neutral way with the singular pronoun they , which is untranslatable in German.

Act

At 24, after the marriage ended, Quinn moved to Toronto , Canada and programmed a game for the first time as part of a six-week course in video game development. In an interview with The New Yorker magazine in 2014, Quinn said: "I felt that I had found my calling".

Depression Quest

One of Quinn's earliest creative works, Depression Quest , is designed as a "choose your own path" adventure that replicates the everyday life of a depressed person. This includes that healthy decision-making processes or those appropriate to the situation are not accessible due to the disease. It arose from Quinn's own recurring experience of depression and the desire to explain the subjective experience of depressed people in their illness phases to other people. Depression Quest was released on Valentine's Day, February 14th, 2013.

It has won several awards, such as Best Narrative Game at the Boston FIG Fest , Best in Category at Mass DiGi , was included in the Official Selection of Indiecade in 2013 and received an Honorable Mention at the Mozilla GameOn Competiton .

Other Projects

In December 2013, Quinn created the Game Developer Help List , designed to bring seasoned game developers and new developers together. The list turned out to be so successful that the Google Docs Internet application was temporarily paralyzed by its popularity. Quinn also voiced games such as Fez (2012) and Jazzpunk (2014) and was involved in the quality assurance of They Bleed Pixels (2012). As of 2014, Quinn was working on a full-motion video game with Greg Sestero in the lead role. In 2015, Quinn advised on the narrative design of the iOS game Framed by Loveshack Entertainment .

In 2015, Quinn wrote a chapter for Videogames for Humans , a book about games made with the Twine tool. Quinn also contributed a chapter to The State of Play: Sixteen Voices on Video Games about the Depression Quest experience and the hate campaign that Quinn subsequently found himself exposed to online. In 2015 Quinn appeared in the documentary GTFO (Get the F & #% Out) directed by Shannon Sun-Higginson . The documentary deals with sexism in the game scene. Quinn also wrote a scenario for Widow's Walk , an expansion for the board game Betrayal at House on the Hill , which was released in 2016.

Zoe Quinn speaks at the Game Developers Conference in March 2016
Quinn (second from left) on the panel of the Game Developers Conference in March 2016

In September 2016 it was reported that Quinn was working with gay erotic writer Chuck Tingle on a full-motion dating simulation under the working title The Tingler . The game raised more than $ 85,000 in donations on Kickstarter, but has not yet been released. In January 2018, Quinn's role as narrative designer for Heart Machine's second game Solar Ash Kingdom was announced. The game is slated to be released in the course of 2020.

In 2018, Quinn worked with illustrator Robbi Rodriguez on Goddess Mode, one of the last comics published by DC Vertigo . While the first volume was still published in print, volumes 2–6 are only available as e-books. In 2019 Quinn collaborated with the cartoonist Philip Murphy on The Addams Family: The Bodies Issue and with Claire Roe on the Fearless series by Marvel Quinn contributed Volume 3 to this series.

Quinn is interested in human enhancement and had an NTAG216 chip implanted in the back of his hand, which can be programmed for various functions. Quinn has had a magnetic implant in her left ring finger since October 2013.

GamersGate controversy

In August 2014, Quinn's ex-boyfriend Eron Gjoni published a lengthy blog post detailing his relationship with Quinn. He also claimed that computer game journalist Nathan Grayson of the online magazine Kotaku , with whom Quinn had a brief affair, published a positive review of Depression Quest without disclosing the relationship. It was later revealed that Grayson had briefly mentioned Quinn only once, and not during their relationship or in the gaming area. These allegations sparked the GamerGate debate. Quinn was harassed for a long time, including doxing , and received threats of rape and death. The GamerGate controversy resulted in sexism being publicly perceived as a problem in the gamer scene worldwide.

In January 2015, Quinn helped found Crash Override , a private network to support victims of online hate, which partnered with Randi Harper's Online Abuse Prevention Initiative (OAPI) in March 2015 .

On September 24, 2015, Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian spoke to the United Nations about online hatred. In her speech, Quinn made clear the need for technology companies to offer an adequate strategy to protect marginalized groups.

In September 2017, Quinn published Crash Override: How Gamergate (Almost) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate, an autobiographical review of GamerGate. The book was nominated for the Hugo Award 2018 in the category Best Related Work .

Publications

Non-fiction

  • Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate . PublicAffairs, New York 2017, ISBN 978-1610398084 .

Comic

  • together with Robbi Rodriguez: Goddess Mode . DC Vertigo 2018–2019, Vol. 1–6.
  • together with Philip Murphy: The Addams Family: The Bodies Issue . IDW Publishing, San Diego 2019.
  • together with Claire Roe: Fearless , Vol. 3, Marvel Comics , New York 2019.

Games

  • 2013 Depression Quest

Web links

Commons : Zoë Quinn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ zoë “tragic sans” quinn: Y'all thought i was playin about my middle name - Tweet. In: twitter.com. March 25, 2015, accessed on March 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Zoë Quinn. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  3. ^ A b c Zachary Jason: Game of Fear. In: bostonmagazine.com. April 28, 2015, accessed February 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Simon Parkin: Zoe Quinn's Depression Quest. In: The New Yorker. September 9, 2014, accessed March 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Noreen Malone: Zoë and the Trolls. In: nymag.com. Vox Media, July 24, 2017, accessed on March 13, 2020 .
  6. ^ Lee Hibbard, What Feminism Looks Like: Gender, Coming Out, and Gamer Culture. In: nymgamer.com. Samantha Blackmon, Purdue University, January 16, 2017, accessed March 13, 2020 .
  7. ^ Mike Rougeau: Resistance Is Futile: The New Wave of Video Games About Depression. In: playboy.com. November 25, 2014, accessed March 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Depression Quest. In: steamcommunity.com. Valve Corporation, December 4, 2013, accessed March 13, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Alex Wawro: Game Developer Help List rallies industry vets to aid rookie devs. In: gamasutra.com. Informa, December 18, 2013, accessed on March 13, 2020 .
  10. ^ Daniel Joseph: What's a Twine Game? Let 'Videogames for Humans' Show You. In: vice.com. May 4, 2015, accessed March 13, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Kaitlin Tremblay: Review: What Is The State of Play in Video Games Right Now? In: themarysue.com. August 20, 2015, accessed March 13, 2020 .
  12. ^ Robert Ito: In the Documentary 'GTFO', Female Video Gamers Fight Back. In: nytimes.com. March 6, 2015, accessed March 13, 2020 .
  13. ^ Charlie Hall: Betrayal at House on the Hill expansion is here in time for Halloween. In: polygon.com. Voxmedia, October 18, 2016, accessed on March 13, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Philippa Warr: Zoe Quinn's FMV Chuck Tingle Dating Sim. In: rockpapershotgun.com. Gamer Network Limited, September 1, 2016, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Peter Steinlechner: Zoë Quinn: Gamergate symbol figure works on video adventure. In: golem.de. Golem Media GmbH, October 27, 2016, accessed on April 1, 2020 .
  16. ^ The Tingler. Retrieved April 1, 2020 (American English).
  17. ^ The Solar Ash Kingdom Team. In: heartmachine.com. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Dominic Tarason: Solar Ash Kingdom announced by Hyper Light Drifter devs. In: rockpapershotgun.com. March 13, 2019, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Lashaan Balasingam: Goddess Mode by Zoë Quinn. In: bookidote.com. October 21, 2019, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Chris Arrant: ADDAMS FAMILY Returning to Comic Books This October. In: newsarama.com. Future plc, July 18, 2019, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  21. ^ John F. Trent: Marvel Comics Hires Zoe Quinn to Write Hellcat Story. In: boundingintocomics.com. Bounding Into Comics, August 13, 2019, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Patricia Hernandez: Woman Puts Deus Ex On Computer Chip In Her Hand. In: kotaku.com. G / O Media Inc., May 7, 2014, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Cyborgs Among Us: Human 'Biohackers' Embed Chips In Their Bodies. In: nbcnews.com. July 11, 2014, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Morten Freidel: "Gamergate": When criticism comes, the game stops. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - faz.net. October 28, 2014, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  25. ↑ Bob Stuart: #GamerGate: the misogynist movement blighting the video games industry. In: telegraph.co.uk. October 24, 2014, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  26. ↑ Emma Carmichael: The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate. In: deadspin.com. G / O Media, October 14, 2014, accessed on April 2, 2020 .
  27. ^ Yasmina Banaszczuk: Feminism and Games Industry: #Gamergate and the Consequences. In: irights.info. irights.media, January 5, 2015, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  28. ↑ Laura Hudson: Gamergate Target Zoe Quinn Launches Anti-Harassment Support Network. In: wired.com. Condé Nast, January 20, 2015, accessed April 2, 2020 .
  29. ^ Leigh Alexander: Online abuse: how women are fighting back. In: theguardian.com. April 13, 2016, accessed April 2, 2020 .
  30. ↑ Latoya Peterson: In 'Crash Override,' Zoe Quinn Shares Her Boss Battle Against Online Harassment. In: npr.org - National Public Radio. September 8, 2017, accessed April 2, 2020 .
  31. ↑ The Hugo Awards: 2018 Hugo Award Finalists Announced. In: tor.com. Macmillan, March 31, 2018, accessed April 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Quinn, Zoë
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quinn, Zoë Tiberius (full name); Valkenburg, Chelsea van (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American person who develops games and works as a writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH United States