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Quinn thought this sort of game narrative would be a good way to depict depression, imposing a set of rules on players that might not experience such problems in their day-to-day lives. One of Quinn's earliest creative works, Depression Quest, was conceived as a "choose-your-own path" adventure detailing the troubled life of a person suffering from depression, with many of the "correct" paths blocked due to the protagonist's struggle with mental self-care. In a later interview for The New Yorker, Quinn said, "I felt like I'd found my calling." Depression Quest

Quinn's first game was the result of a six-week course on video game creation that they attended after seeing an advertisement in a newspaper.

CareerĪt the age of 24, Quinn moved to Canada and made their first foray into video game programming. They described receiving little sympathy or assistance from school district officials who were "less than understanding about teens with depression and suicide issues".

Quinn suffered from depression as a teenager, having been diagnosed with the condition at age 14. Growing up, Quinn's favorite video game was Commander Keen, an MS-DOS game featuring an eight-year-old protagonist who builds a spaceship with items found around his house and then travels the galaxy defending the Earth. Zoë Tiberius Quinn was born in 1987 and was raised in a small town near the Adirondack Mountains in New York. The following year, Quinn co-founded Crash Override, a crisis hotline and resource center for victims of online harassment. In 2014, a defamatory blog post by their ex-boyfriend sparked the online harassment campaign known as Gamergate, during which Quinn was subjected to extensive harassment including doxing, rape threats, and death threats. Quinn developed the interactive fiction game Depression Quest, which was released in 2013. Zoë Tiberius Quinn (born 1987) is an American video game developer, programmer, and writer.