Tim Cain talk about being a gay developer and making a new Falloutlike game

[Windburn]

I do recommend watching it entirely. However these are the bullet points.

8m41s

"The AIDS epidemic was rampant. You were basically told if you're a gay man, you're going to die. And that terrified teenage me, but also it kinda shaped my whole career, because I never really had a role model. [...] Because almost everyone gay, who was older than me, was dead."

18m34s

"I wasn't out. I've actually spoken in last 10 years to people who were there when I was there, who are also gay, and we all agree Interplay was incredibly hostile to gay people."

28m25s

"I came out. [...] But I didn't tell this to publishers, because now that I own a company in my mind the worst thing would be to come out and possibly not get deals from publishers, because I was an openly gay developer."

32m13s

"Design was lagging. 3 years making [the Wildstar] engine they didn't have any classes, didn't have a setting, didn't have story. They just had ideas. Somebody came in from NCSoft [...] and fired the whole design department. [...] The Studio told me I was gonna do it. [...] Probably for last 3 years I was there I didn't really develop [...] I kind of managed people, who were actually making the game."

37m21s

"I ended up leaving Carbine before [Wildstar] shipped. [...] When I started at Interplay I was employee 48. When I left there were 600 employees. I started as as employee 12th at Carbine. And there were 200 people. It's kind too big for me. I wanted to keep my hands in the development and I wasn't really doing that anymore."

37m49s

"I got married [...] I changed my facebook status that night. My wikipedia page [...] was defaced. My occupation was changed from developer to homosexual. There were whole forums discussing if my games were still worth playing." This was on his honeymoon.

43m40s

"I can make one more game before I retire. I think I want to make one more IP. [...] So I went to the [Obsidian] owners last year and said okay, let's do something. So I'm actually working on a game now. I can't really talk about it, but if you love Fallout you're gonna recognize the humor and the style of that game in this one."

 

[Tiny Tim]

Cool. I didn't know he was gay.

 

[Einhanderc7]

I'm confused, how does his personal life matter to me? Far as I'm concerned he has the right to privacy just like everyone else.

Another thing that confuses me is why people feel the inclination to regurgitate meaningless information as if it is somehow interesting gossip. Unless he dropped legit details on the "project" this is pretty much a waste of my time.

Also the bullet points, really? I don't believe it was necessary to bullet point the guy's oration on orientation.

 

[ThatZenoGuy]

Oh god I don't give a wooden nickel if someone's gay or not, just make good video games.

You can be a purple people eater from space and I won't care, just give me a good, well priced, well programmed game.