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Zoë Tiberius Quinn (born 1987) is an American video game developer, programmer, and writer. Quinn developed the interactive fiction game Depression Quest , which was released in 2013. In 2014, a blog post by their [ a ] ex-boyfriend sparked the online harassment campaign known as Gamergate , during which Quinn was subjected to extensive ...
Gamergate began with an August 2014 blog entry called "The Zoe Post" by Quinn's ex-boyfriend, which falsely insinuated that Quinn had received a favorable review because of Quinn's sexual relationship with a games journalist. [13] The blog post was spread to 4chan, where many users had previously disparaged Quinn's work.
Crash Override was founded by game developers Zoë Quinn and Alex Lifschitz, [6] and was staffed exclusively by victims of online abuse whose identities were kept anonymous outside the group. [7] Quinn and Lifschitz were subjected to online abuse during the Gamergate harassment campaign, with both receiving death threats and being doxxed. [8 ...
Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate is a memoir by indie video game developer Zoë Quinn about their experiences as the target of Gamergate and in countering online abuse.
Zoë Quinn, the game's designer, pictured in 2016. The game was designed by Zoë Quinn and written by Quinn and Patrick Lindsey, both of whom have had depression. The soundtrack was composed by Isaac Schankler. Quinn and Lindsey started the project, with the aim of communicating how the mind of a depression sufferer functions.
In August 2019, Holowka was accused of physical and emotional abuse by Zoë Quinn, whom he had briefly cohabited with in Winnipeg in 2012. [11] [12] The day following the accusation, the Night in the Woods development team cut ties with Holowka, with Scott Benson writing "We take such allegations seriously as a team". [13]
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Crash Override, a 2017 memoir by Zoë Quinn of the Crash Override Network Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Crash Override .