In recent weeks we've spoken to the developers of promising new indie fighter Diesel Legacy, as well as former Lab Zero Games employees, about working with the famous fighting game dev accused of abusive behavior.
In June 2020, less than two weeks after the murder of George Floyd, the lead designer of indie fighting game Skullgirls made an"I can't breathe" joke while commentating an official tournament. Mike Zaimont's words hung in the air for an uncomfortable 13 seconds of silence from the other two commentators before he spoke again.
"That said, when I was talking to Mike and went through the process of figuring out where he was at—if you want to have an inclusive environment in the world, and you want to have diverse viewpoints, all of the things we want for, you have to have a path for people to learn and improve. You have to create a way for them to show the world that they've changed and decided to do better. And I really got that from Mike.
Employees discussing Zaimont's behavior and realizing that he had a history of making sexual, cruel, or otherwise inappropriate comments in their private interactions Three of the people I spoke with had strong words about the contents of Mike's cross-complaint:"deranged" and"full of ad hominem attacks" said one. Another characterized it as full of"super off-the-rails stuff and philosophical screeds."
"He uses his autism as a defense of his behavior, which I think is particularly insidious—I personally know plenty of people on the spectrum who don't behave like creeps, and it's insulting that he would throw an entire community under the bus to make himself look helpless and unaware of his actions," one told me.
In his cross-complaint, Zaimont claims that Cartwright"routinely facilitated written and oral conversations with me relating to sex, sexual orientation, urination, menstruation, porn, plastic surgery, body image, etc… Based on these conversations, Mariel gave me the impression that no topic was off limits, but rather that these topics were welcomed and ordinary in the course of our friendship.
"This is not a scenario where he's difficult to work with and making people on the team mad, and we're saying 'oh it's okay because he's so amazing at what he does.' No assholes. Just a straight, no assholes policy," she said."So I don't believe, today, that I am trading genius for bad behavior.
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