- Joined
- Sep 26, 2019
I didn't play it for long, but I didn't encounter any wokeness. The creator himself trooned out a few years after the game was released.Where does Celeste lie? I wanna place it on HEAVY for the character being a troon alone, but from what I heard it was some ex-dev (who is also a tranny) claiming as such even though there might be no mention of the character's gender at all, until the dev made that Medium article. I could be wrong and it absolutely does mention it in the game, but like hell I'm gonna buy or sit through a playthrough to find out.
From the Wikipedia article:
In August 2015, Thorson and Noel Berry, another member of Matt Makes Games, had a four-day game jam to create a PICO-8 game about climbing a mountain with difficult jumping steps. When they completed this, they recognized the opportunity to flesh out the game into a full release, forming the basis of Celeste. Full work on the game started around January 2016.[10] The game was released across multiple platforms in January 2018. By the end of 2018, it had sold more than 500,000 copies,[11] and received numerous industry awards.
In 2021, after the establishment of Extremely OK Games, Matt Makes Games was renamed to Maddy Makes Games.[a]
Personal life[edit]
Thorson is transgender[20] and uses she/her pronouns.[1][21] By around 2020, she had adopted the name Maddy Thorson.[22] In the Farewell DLC to the game Celeste, the final cutscene shows the character Madeline in her room with a rainbow flag and trans pride flag. Thorson later confirmed that Madeline was trans in a blog post which also reflected on her own coming to terms with her gender identity.[20]

So he made his magnum opus, and then went insane.