Game developers outed as pedophiles

[Inside your walls]

How can you leave out Randy Pitchford?

Allegedly according to the former Gearbox lawyer
left an USB stick containing CP in Medieval Times

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

My theory, if I were being very charitable, would be that compared to other IT disciplines, a consuming interest in games (which is essentially escapism), poor social life and the resulting arrested development means you come into contact with minors over places like Discord and TeamSpeak. They can't see them so they develop parasocial relationships with the voices of people and build up a fantasy in their heads (and other interests). Maybe they find out they're underage but can't let go, maybe they're so starved they no longer care, and try and take advantage of them. In a lot of these texts with these minors, like with YandreDev and that The Anh guy, they all seem very needy, like it's not just manipulation, they've become emotionally dependent on these kids they've groomed to essentially act out their fantasy. They're almost all less mature and less well adjusted that their targets.

 

[Angry Lurker]

surprised nobody mentioned it yet. The dev team behind one of the most popular and long running roblox games called "Phantom Forces" were recently outed for protecting child groomers in their discord. Highlights include being weirdly secretive about a dev being outed as a pedophile, when one of the owners admitted to kicking out said dev only because "people found out about it and we had to do something".

I'm getting horrified by the sheer amount of Roblox game developer pedophiles while researching. I did not know it was that bad.

 

[foobar]

Brickadia - lego style sandbox game with kids/teenagers as a target audience, one of the many failed Blockland successors.
Of the original 8 developers, 4 got outed as pedophiles, be it grooming minors or drawing cp.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/brickadia-lego-game-with-4-pedophile-devs.142855/

 

[Obstacle]

The correlation between games development and being a sex pest is definitely something that's observably true even irl.

When I was at university the games development course was infamous for housing the most concentrated band of social rejects and perverts on the campus, especially when compared to the other autistic IT majors, who were all a little spergy but generally good fun and didn't give off the same instinctive warning signs that the games dev crowd did.

I hate to admit it, as I love game design as a topic (board and tabletop).
But people who make escapism their world, are usually living in the shell of a ruined life.
Some people are born to fail, to be rejected, and to drown in an uncaring world.
Some people are ruined by circumstance, or their own doing.
Escapism can be enjoyed by anybody, but these are the people who live and breathe it.
Escapists are very rarely entirely good people, living their best lives.
Sometimes the escapist is actually fleeing from the shadow he himself casts.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Well, he's right about the Olsen Twins being ugly kids, although I think they're still ugly as adults, and he's right about Mandy Moore now but I disagree about the AOC issue.

Mandy Moore sounds familiar. Looked her up, doesn't seem particularly attractive.

Not appropriate at all and kinda gross, but that's hardly proof of being a pedophile.

Saying "you know what you're doing" at 12 is actually good evidence lol. As someone who was 12, you definitely don't know what you're doing.

How can you leave out Randy Pitchford?

What the hell is he doing there...?

 

[Product Placement]

Ken McCulloch know for writing Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (2002), Too Human (200 and Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (1996).

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/precursor-co-founder-ex-silicon-knights-director-arrested-for-child-pornograpghy

https://archive.is/wip/MuWAW

Ken McCulloch, a founding member of Precursor games and formerly the director of content at Silicon Knights, has been arrested in Canada on charges related to child pornography.

A Niagra police media release has detailed the situation and charges, which are yet to be resolved.

"On Thursday, June 27th, 2013, Detectives from the Internet Child Exploitation Unit/Child Abuse Unit, Technological Crimes Unit and Uniform Officers executed a search warrant at a St. Catharines residence. Subsequently, a significant number of computer systems and peripheral devices were seized as evidence. Kenneth McCulloch, 42 years old, of St. Catharines, Ontario, was arrested and is charged with one count each of Possession of Child Pornography, Making Child Pornography Available, and Accessing Child Pornography, contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada. This investigation is ongoing. McCulloch is being held in custody, pending a bail hearing scheduled for June 28th, 2013 at the Robert S. K. Welch Courthouse, located at 59 Church Street, in the City of St. Catharines."

Precursor is the company formed by many ex-Silicon Knights members, including Dennis Dyack. In a statement on the developer's official blog, CEO Paul Caporicci has declared that the company has severed all links with McCulloch - effective immediately.

"Having just learned of these disturbing charges today and based on the serious nature of them, Ken McCulloch is no longer affiliated in any way with Precursor Games," writes Caporicci. McCulloch's name has been expunged from the site and all staff listings.

 

[Angry Lurker]

Not sure if it is relevant due to him being primarily an artist and probably not a game developer, but John Bob (prominent twitter artist and pedophile) had made a game called "John Bob's Halloween Bash" in 2019 where a bunch of other Twitter artists were included.

 

[Angry Lurker]

Cliff Bleszinski, one of the game designers for Unreal, the original Gears of War and the maker of Lawbreakers is a known pedo poster.

Back in 2002, Cliff Bleszinski / CliffyB posted on a thread in Something Awful's General Bullshit category about "Hot underage females you would like to sex" where he, along with other pedophiles simp over underage girls whilst being 27. Link to the thread and link to the post

He justified it as being a "troll post". Surely a 27 year old man saying that the age of consent should be 14 everywhere is trolling


Since you need an account with the archives upgrade to view the thread in question, here are some archived screenshots of the thread.

Spoiler: Massive thread archive

Check his hard drives.

 

[Angry Lurker]

Another potential submission would be Pirate Software, for driving 4 hours, 2 hours to and 2 hours back, to meet up with an underaged girl who worked for his digital fetish shop whilst being 20 years old at the time.

 

[JesusChristDenton]

Thread theme:

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

What the hell is he doing there...?

In-acting his favourite fetish. Piss-play

 

[Sir Baz the Intolerant]

What kind of warning signs? Is there a commonality? Computer people always strike me as...a bit odd.

They were all turbo autistic in usually very inappropriate ways, one example I can remember off the top of my head was a GameDev student asked a female CompSci student in a shared module how it felt when she was molested by a family member. Admittedly that was one of the worse instances I was aware of, but while they never got handsy with anyone they would consistently make people uncomfortable either with direct comments or just by being very visible coomers with noticeably poor hygiene.

As for how they compared to the other IT speds, it was honestly like night and day. Yeah they were all quiet geeks that kept to themselves a bit more than most, but the Computer Science and Cyber Security lads would all socialise, go out with girls, and were all in established friend groups, just generally well adjusted young adults. There was also a significant IQ difference between them which I think contributed significantly, as the Game Dev course was effectively a heavily dumbed down version of the Comp Sci course they ended up with, by and large, the literal bottom of the IT barrel that couldn't get in anywhere else.

 

[Lurkerish Kandor]

As for how they compared to the other IT speds, it was honestly like night and day. Yeah they were all quiet geeks that kept to themselves a bit more than most, but the Computer Science and Cyber Security lads would all socialise, go out with girls, and were all in established friend groups, just generally well adjusted young adults. There was also a significant IQ difference between them which I think contributed significantly, as the Game Dev course was effectively a heavily dumbed down version of the Comp Sci course they ended up with, by and large, the literal bottom of the IT barrel that couldn't get in anywhere else.

Pretty much lines up with my experience studying CompSci 10 years ago. There were normal people and there were the real serious nerds, same thing with the tutors as well as the students tbh. The people who just saw IT as another skillset and another career, vs the spergs who grew up immersed in tech and were there because of autism.

And you could always tell the serious nerds from everyone else in all the stereotypical ways: bad hygiene, getting way too excited about talking to people with similar interests to the point it disrupted classes, and generally being inappropriate when socializing. I really really didn't need to learn from the one guy about how expensive it is to import Bad Dragon shit into this country because of the weight, and I really wish one of the others hadn't sent me down the rabbithole into discovering furry shit.

When I went back to the same college like 8 years later to study Automotive Engineering, I was concerned about having to deal with even more fucking weirdoes who are even more extreme in the current world. That didn't happen though, because in Trade studies there's fuck all spergs. Everyone's just chilling out, studying, or doing their Practical work. No one's being autistic because they're there to do a job.

What kind of warning signs? Is there a commonality? Computer people always strike me as...a bit odd.

The correlation between games development and being a sex pest is definitely something that's observably true even irl.

Brings me back to the tl;dr of my big post here:
Certain jobs attract certain kinds of people (IT, Morticians, EMTs, Cops, Politicians, etc), and you can kinda just learn to spot the fucking weirdoes if you pay attention to people. Believe them when they tell you who they are, even if they try to pull a "lol I was just pretending to be retarded" then believe their retardation. You just need to observe them enough to assess if their spergacity is benign or not. Are they just weird about game dev and IT? Or are they a weirdo in general and therefore might be maliciously weird?

OP mentioned Pirate Software up there, and he's a great example:
Of course he ended up being a fucking weirdo, calling himself Pirate Software just for SEO, and causing trouble with the Stop Killing Games movement were giant red flags that he's an oddball in retarded ways for retarded reasons.

 

[Angry Lurker]

Thread link

Duncan Ogilvie / Mr. Exodia, the main developer of game DRM solution Denuvo, main developer of the x64dbg reverse engineering tool and senior staff on the eXeTools forum was allegedly caught engaging in illicit conversations with a minor back in 2018. He allegedly asked for a 13 year old girl to strip for him for monetary compensation, and had recordings of her in a nude state through the webcam. He even allegedly sent some of them back to the victim.



Tweet link/Archive

A relative of the victim had made a blog article about the incident.
Link/Archive

The CEO was apparently contacted about the matter and they said they would have "a chat with this guy". They also named him their best employee.


Mr. Exodia had allegedly recorded videos of the victim in her nude state through the webcam (on his own machine) and has even sent some of them back to the victim.


In a Reddit post, the individual confirms the existence mail with a screen recording.
Post link / Gif video recording

Other screenshot proof from another blog post (unfortunately not archived).


Now the whistleblower in question [u/Megin-Homas] has quite an extensive history of whistleblowing about the website and being attacked on Reddit (?).
Link/Archive

I don't have much extra information about the situation due to a lack of information and archives so if you know more please feel free to correct me, give me information or directly hit up the thread in question.

 

[Angry Lurker]

Strider posted a follow up to the video about Stylis Studios / Phantom Forces. I'll watch it when I can.

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

I'd say Pirate Software aka Maldavius Figtree
Who drove 4 hours, 2 hours to and 2 hours back, to meet up with an underaged girl who worked for his digital fetish shop.
But he'd have to finish a game for that first.

E: formatting.

 

[my penis is on fire]

The correlation between games development and being a sex pest is definitely something that's observably true even irl.

When I was at university the games development course was infamous for housing the most concentrated band of social rejects and perverts on the campus, especially when compared to the other autistic IT majors, who were all a little spergy but generally good fun and didn't give off the same instinctive warning signs that the games dev crowd did.

They were all turbo autistic in usually very inappropriate ways, one example I can remember off the top of my head was a GameDev student asked a female CompSci student in a shared module how it felt when she was molested by a family member. Admittedly that was one of the worse instances I was aware of, but while they never got handsy with anyone they would consistently make people uncomfortable either with direct comments or just by being very visible coomers with noticeably poor hygiene.

And you could always tell the serious nerds from everyone else in all the stereotypical ways: bad hygiene, getting way too excited about talking to people with similar interests to the point it disrupted classes, and generally being inappropriate when socializing. I really really didn't need to learn from the one guy about how expensive it is to import Bad Dragon shit into this country because of the weight, and I really wish one of the others hadn't sent me down the rabbithole into discovering furry shit.

It's interesting to hear that everyone else's experience with gamedev majors is the same as mine. Every single one I’ve met have been utter degenerates, the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel trash of STEM majors. If you take the worst traits of art students and mix them with the worst traits of STEMcels, you get gamedev students. Lazy, incompetent, pretentious, Breadtube fans, sex pests, every one of them is like that.
I’m bearish on the future of the games industry, because for some reason gamedev attracts the worst people on earth. The people described in this thread are 95% of the people in the industry, and there’s no sign of things getting better because the ones I encountered will be in the future hiring pool. Despite what they may tell you, AAA and Indie are declining at the same speed because both spaces are full of the same human waste. It’s why the industry is full of deviants, from indie devs trooning out to Roblox game makers grooming children on Discord to AAA studios having globe-spanning sexual harassment scandals. It’s why every game is unoptimized and every woman outside of porn games looks orkish. It’s why there are so many high-profile indie Kickstarter failures, while at the same time publisher-backed indie games are rapidly growing in success, because without tard wranglers breathing down their necks and controlling the money they’re unable to do anything. []It’s why USAID supposedly getting cut will have little impact on the industry, because it’s already made of the kinds of dysgenics that wokeness appeals to regardless of outside funding.[/] Having dealt with them myself, my heart is hardened to their complaints about crunch culture, mass layoffs, and the Chinese.
An organization is defined not by its ideas, but by its people. When the well of talent is poisoned, it’s only logical that every company that draws from it starts shitting itself to death.