The Chinese Room's Jessica Curry has announced that she is stepping down as co-director of the Everybody's Gone to the Rapture studio.
In a moving post on The Chinese Room's website, Curry attributes her big decision to reasons that include both illness and game industry sexism.
"I have a degenerative disease that simply won’t do what it’s told," Curry writes. "I pushed myself to the edge of a precipice on Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture - I thought if I kept running then I could always keep the disease just out of reach. I was so wrong."
Curry reveals that, in June, she got so ill that she thought she was going to be "brought home in a coffin." "It forced me to re-evaluate what the hell I was doing to myself, and more importantly the effect I was having on my husband and son. I can’t keep running and it’s time to admit that to myself and to everyone who loves me."
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In a moving post on The Chinese Room's website, Curry attributes her big decision to reasons that include both illness and game industry sexism.
"I have a degenerative disease that simply won’t do what it’s told," Curry writes. "I pushed myself to the edge of a precipice on Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture - I thought if I kept running then I could always keep the disease just out of reach. I was so wrong."
Curry reveals that, in June, she got so ill that she thought she was going to be "brought home in a coffin." "It forced me to re-evaluate what the hell I was doing to myself, and more importantly the effect I was having on my husband and son. I can’t keep running and it’s time to admit that to myself and to everyone who loves me."
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