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      Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

      The Chinese Room's Jessica Curry steps down as co-head

      She will, however, continue to compose for future games.

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      In a post over on the company blog, The Chinese Room's (Everybody's Gone to the Rapture) co-head Jessica Curry has announced that she'll be stepping down from her role as part of the game development team at the studio, and will instead only compose music for future projects while remaining a company director.

      The main cause that led to the decision was that Curry suffers from a degenerative illness, but she also cites a "toxic" relationship with major publishers, that made her "shake her head with disbelief." Here's what she had to say:

      "Working with a publisher made me extremely unhappy and very ill. In the end I didn't even recognize myself anymore- I had turned from a joyful, fun-loving, creative, silly, funny person into a short-tempered, paranoid, unhappy, negative heap. So much of the stress that I experienced was caused by what I see as the desperately toxic relationship that I was in. I can't go into detail here for the reasons above but what I can say is that I look back at the way we were treated and it still makes me shake my head with disbelief. Big business and the creation of art have always been extremely uncomfortable bedfellows and making Rapture proved to be no exception for me. I don't want to do this anymore- in fact I can't do it. I want to surround myself with honest, open people whom I can trust."

      Curry's final point in the post, however, is about the games industry in general, and especially its handling of female game designers:

      "I thought I was strong enough to lead the charge, to prove through talent and hard work and positivity that women have a vital role to play. Well, as tough as this is to admit to both myself and to you lot this is one fight that I'm personally not going to win. I leave it to people younger and fitter than me to carry on this crusade. On a personal level I look back at my huge contribution to the games that we've made and I have had to watch Dan get the credit time and time again."

      Everybody's Gone to the Rapture released on PSN on August 11th, and we quite liked it.

      Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

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      "The sun is shining, the sky is blue and flowers dot the landscape with every colour you can imagine. It doesn't exactly look like the end of the world."



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