Zoe Quinn Biography
Zoe Quinn is a video game developer, writer, artist, and activist from the United States. She is well-known for being one of the few well-known female video game developers in this predominantly male-dominated industry. Quinn’s first game was the result of a six-week video game development course they took after seeing an advertisement in the newspaper. “I felt like I’d found my calling,” Quinn said later in an interview with The New Yorker.
Zoe Quinn Age
She is 35 years old as of January 2023. She was born Zoë Tiberius Quinn on January 11, 1987, in New York United States of America.
Zoe Quinn Depression Quest
Depression Quest, one of Quinn’s early works, was envisioned as a “choose-your-own path” adventure describing the hard life of a person suffering from depression, with many of the “correct” pathways barred due to the protagonist’s battle with mental self-care. Quinn thought that enforcing a set of constraints on players who might not face similar challenges in their daily life would be an excellent method to convey despair. In February 2013, Depression Quest was released. Quinn submitted the game to the Steam Greenlight service twice, once in December 2013 and again in August 2014, when it was accepted and distributed on Steam. Depression Quest was mentioned as one of numerous video games dealing with the subjective experience of depression in a Playboy article.
Zoe Quinn Height
Quinn stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches and 170 Centimeters.
Zoe Quinn Career
Quinn got into video game development by accident. Even though she had always enjoyed playing video games, it wasn’t until she was in her mid-20s that she seriously considered making a career out of it. She took a six-week video game development course before starting her own. She created the game ‘Depression Quest,’ an interactive fiction game about depression, after suffering from depression as a teenager. She hoped to raise awareness about depression through this game, which received praise from critics for its depiction of depression and educational value. She later founded the Game Developer Help List in order to connect experienced and novice game developers. She is also a writer and has contributed chapters to the books ‘The State of Play: Sixteen Voices on Video Games’ and ‘Videogames for Humans,’ among other literary pursuits.
Zoe Quinn Scandals
In 2014, Zoe Quinn became the target of a malicious online harassment campaign after her ex-boyfriend published a lengthy blog post about her. In the post, he accused Zoe of cheating on him with several men, among other allegations. As a result, a subset of netizens became enraged and began abusing and threatening Zoe Quinn. These incidents sparked the Gamergate controversy, bringing to light the harassment and sexism faced by female gamers in the overwhelmingly male-dominated gaming world. Quinn co-founded Crash Override, a private network of experts to assist victims of online harassment, in January 2015 to assist others facing similar issues.
Zoe Quinn’s Net Worth
Zoe has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars as of 2023.
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).
