Gone Home -founr Steve Gaynor has stepped down om his role as creative lead and manager after allegatns of toxicy his learship.
Contents:
CO-FOUNR BEHD GONE HOME STEVE GAYNOR CHANG ROLE AFTER TOXIC LEARSHIP FORC WOMEN OUT
* gone home gay *
Even five years later, producer Steve Gaynor told Polygon that Gone Home’s receptn, both posive and negative, ntu to surprise him. “The gree of very, very shockgly posive rponse to and also the backlash of, ‘This isn’t even a game’ and all that — that sle of how people nnected wh or didn’t was not somethg we predicted, ” Gaynor said.
Two of are women and one of is gay. In the years sce, Gaynor attribut any aggrsive dismissal more to the “tribalism” of some players, who rejected the ia of a game where you mostly read letters, listen to great mic and explore rooms, than Fullbright’s openns about their social stanc. The bate led to Gaynor hostg a panel at Game Developers Conference the followg March, entled, “Why is Gone Home a Game?
“We’re really fortunate that I thk we land at a place a lot of people uld intify and keep intifyg wh and go back and vis fie years later, ” Gaynor said. Back 2012, the Fullbright Company was formed by three iends: Johnnemann Nordhagen, and Karla Zimonja, and Steve Gaynor. A toxic workplace, wh Steve Gaynor and his learship g “nvoluted cisn-makg procs“, micromanagement and beltlement.