How He Fucked the Girl Out of Me takes players through traumatic memories
This interview is part of our Road to the IGF series. The IGF (Independent Games Festival) aims to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize independent game developers advancing the medium. Every year, Game Developer sits down with the finalists for the IGF ahead of GDC to explore the themes, design decisions, and tools behind each entry.
This piece carries a content warning for Nonconsensual Sex, Dubious Consent, Sexual Assault, Sissification Kink, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Gender Dysphoria, Age Gap, Abuse, Suicidal Ideation, Blood.
He Fucked the Girl Out of Me is an autobiographical visual novel about a trans woman's traumatic experiences with sex work.
Taylor McCue, creator of the Nuovo Award-nominated work, spoke with Game Developer about the thoughts that went into how to convey and structure this difficult story from her past, the challenges that come up when you're spending so much time and mental effort on exploring traumatic memories, and the extremely complicated feelings that come from putting this much of yourself out into the world for others to experience.
Who are you, and what was your role in developing He Fucked The Girl Out of Me ?
My name is Taylor McCue. Explaining who I am is a more confusing question. I know technically what you want is for me to list out my job or degrees or awards but I don’t have a job. I’m a shut-in. I have won many awards for being a game developer but I still feel like I am a disappointment to the people who care about me.
I want to talk more about my personal life but I am not sure I could do it right now without oversharing or being too hard on myself.
My role in developing He Fucked The Girl Out of Me was writing it, drawing most of the panels,
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