Game developers outed as pedophiles

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First thread here. I feel like making a thread to talk about game developers outed as pedophiles or are about to (bonus point if they're a 🐮 lolcow) instead of searching in the forum. I hope it can serve to give relevancy even if the developers in question do not have a specific thread, and can if able serve as prospering grounds for them.

Some major examples include...

🐮 EvaXephon / Yanderedev / Alex Mahan / Alexander Stuart Mahan / cannotgoogleme | Yandere Simulator (Thread link)​

Alexander Stuart Mahan, known as YandereDev, is a retarded shitty game developer with a history of troubling behavior. Allegations against him include inappropriate interactions with minors, such as engaging in an online relationship with a 14-year-old girl when he was 20 and later speaking suggestively to a 16-year-old girl. His dumb responses to these accusations often involve deflection, denial, and attempts to silence critics, such as issuing false DMCA takedowns. Not only he has a long history of interactions with young fans coupled with a history of expressing problematic views on relationships and women in public forums, he is an atrociously bad game developer and has a huge ego. Despite all of this, he has maintained a cult-like platform and audience of young and impressionable teenagers.

Jesse Cardone / Jessecar / Jessecar96 and Joshua Coffey / Geel / Geel9 | .TF Network (Thread link)​

Not technically game developers, but Jesse Cardone and Joshua Coffey amongst many other individuals run a network of websites around Team Fortress 2's item economy (which involves a lot of real world monetary transactions and hoarding real world identification) and got accused of using their influence in the community to solicit naked selfies from underage users and abusing their power along with distributing CP.

TheAnh / Anh | Bad Parenting (Thread link)​

TheAnh, or Anh is a game developer and pedophile behind 2002 Games's Bad Parenting, a popular horror indie game played by content creators outed for being a pedophile and being into vore and grooming a 14 year old (and a 16 year old, allegedly) along with guilt-tripping and manipulating them on Discord.

Arnold Castillo / DoctorRofatnik / Jaden Shedletsky / Punished Memphiles / NotJeterRBLX | Roblox (Thread link)​

Arnold Castillo is a pedophile currently being charged with trying to solicit sex with a minor as well as inter-state human trafficking, he's currently facing life in prison in a court case in the Southern District of Indiana. Before getting party vanned back in May of 2022, he was the main developer of a Sonic game called Sonic Eclipse Online. The allegations of sexual deviancy and pedophilia for Arnold go as far back as 2017. Roblox did nothing to take the game down until 2021 due to a DMCA takedown request to Roblox by SEGA. Arnold also had a history of manipulating his own underaged and mentally ill developers to stay on the team.

Jonochrome | One Night at Flumpty's (Thread link)​

Jonochrome is a FNAF fan game developer that worked on One Night at Flumpty's. He was exposed for being in a relationship and grooming someone named Emily when she was 13-14 at the time back in 2016 to 2018 whilst being in his 20's at the time. He eventually left his accounts and disappeared after the backlash.

Randy Pitchford / DuvalMagic | Gearbox Software (Thread link)​

Randy Pitchford, also known by the alias of DuvalMagic is the CEO of Gearbox Software, a company known for making titles such as Borderlands, Duke Nukem Forever, Aliens: Colonial Marines was sued in 2018. Within the accusations of that lawsuit, it was alleged that an USB drive that Randy Pitchford left in a Dallas, Texas restaurant along with sensitive corporate documents for Gearbox and its partners including 2K Games, Sega, Sony, Microsoft and others, contained a personal collection of CP.

Stylis Studios - BellaTheBatPony / Juke / WolfDawgz / Mar / Willow / Cid9 / AxisAngle and more | Roblox (Thread link)​

Stylis Studios is a group of Roblox game developers behind a popular FPS game called Phantom Forces. They have a Discord server in which contractors, developers and content creators use to groom children (with a large amount of them being under the age of 13). For years they have covered up the stories and swept most of the controversies under the rug along with re-hiring some of the offenders. Some of the people involved in the community, like Juke (Jonathan Cade Mitchell) were even charged with enticement of a child to meet for sexual purposes and one of the map designers, WolfDawgz sent furry porn to minors and groomed them. They have repeatedly covered up for each other, silenced victims and nuked their Discord channels completely (which were up for 8 years at this point).

This video by Striker (former Phantom Forces content creator) goes further into details about some of these people.

Kenneth McCulloch / Ken McCulloch | Silicon Knights, Precursor Games (Thread link)​

Kenneth McCulloch was the founding member of Precursor games and formerly the director of content at Silicon Knights. He was known for writing Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Too Human and Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain. In 2013, he was arrested in Canada after an investigation dating back to April 2013 resulted in the execution of a search warrant on a St. Catharines, Ontario home on June 27th. According to a report from Niagara Regional Police Service, a “significant number of computer systems and peripheral devices were seized as evidence” during the raid. He was later charged on “one count each of Possession of Child Pornography, Making Child Pornography Available, and Accessing Child Pornography.”

Cliff Bleszinski / CliffyB | Unreal, Gears of War (Thread link)​

Cliff Bleszinski, also known as CliffyB is a video game designer known for his work on Unreal and Gears of War (Epic Games). He also co-founded Boss Key Productions in 2014 which closed in 2018 after the commercial failure of the multiplayer shooter LawBreakers. Back in 2002, Cliff Bleszinski 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. He justified it as being a "troll post" despite the outrageously pedophilic shit he said in the thread.

Community thread resources:
Dedicated Roblox Community thread
Dedicated Roblox Erotic Roleplay Community thread
Dedicated FNAF Community thread


Adding more examples soon.. Doing some research first ;)

I will add more relevant examples later down the line if needed and they're important to the OP. Please leave suggestions for the thread! :)
 
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Blackout1912: FNAF fangame developer exposed for being a pedophile, necrophile, and a groomer (https://kiwifarms.st/threads/five-nights-at-freddys-community.196667/)

Jesse Cardone and Joshua Coffey: Fags involved with the .TF Network sites for Team Fortress 2 item trading, both of them did lots of awful pedophile shit (https://kiwifarms.st/threads/jesse-cardone-jessecar-jessecar96-and-joshua-coffey-geel-geel9.70687/) (https://kiwifarms.st/threads/the-tf-network-and-administration.77943/)

George Cacioppo: Former PlayStation exec, caught by People v. Preds sting operation in 2021. Fired by Sony afterward (https://kiwifarms.st/threads/sony-f...dly-appeared-in-pedophile-sting-video.107012/)

Alison Rapp: Used to work at Nintendo Treehouse until 2016. She defended pedophiles (https://kiwifarms.st/threads/alison-rapp-maria-mint-123grapeman.18002/)
 
The game developer behind Bad Parenting, a popular horror indie game played by content creators was recently outed for being a pedophile and being into vore.
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Anh/TheAnh, who's currently 22 years old owns a Discord server called 2002 Games (the game studio behind Bad Parenting) in which he has groomed a few children online over Discord and blamed it on them. The evidence was presented in form of a pdf document and Google Doc file.

First pdf document (Link/Archive)
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Google doc file (Link/Archive)
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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".

Here's a great video about the whole thing. Furries. Lol. Lmao even. Not even once
Unfortunately Stylis (the dev team) deleted fucking everything after this video dropped and scrubbed their groomcord clean.
 
Cliff Bleszinski, one of the game designers for Unreal, the original Gears of War and the maker of Lawbreakers is a known pedo poster.

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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.
 
Insert any adult making games on Roblox here.

Jess Cliffe, the co-creator of Counter-Strike and who provided the original voice command lines that were used from CS 1.6 to CS:S.
He was catfished by a 16 year old girl on a dating site where you have to be 18 to register an account.

That's not really being a pedo. That's just getting screwed over by a woman with no control on your end. You're going to assume that any woman you meet on that site is 18+.

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

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That's just early 2000s bro talk. Not appropriate at all and kinda gross, but that's hardly proof of being a pedophile. More likely than not, it's just Cliff putting on a persona and being a contrarian, as he's wont to do.
 
that's hardly proof of being a pedophile.
he's literally saying that he finds 14 and 12 year olds hot, he could not be more literal or explicit. fuck off.
That's just early 2000s bro talk.
no it's not. it was not acceptable then to talk about finding children attractive, just like it isn't now. quit your revisionist shit.
it's just Cliff putting on a persona and being a contrarian
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I'm a bit worried this is enough of a specific trend to warrant it's own thread.
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.
 
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.
What kind of warning signs? Is there a commonality? Computer people always strike me as...a bit odd.

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.

And some probably just watched too much depraved pornography and couldn't handle it.
 
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