Alec Holowoka, the co-creator of Night In The Woods, died on Saturday morning, his sister Eileen Mary Holowka has reported. Alec Holowka was co-designer, coder and composer on Night In the Woods, and beforehand crammed the identical roles on Aquaria. Last Monday, he was accused of sexual assault and abusive behaviour a number of years in the past by developer and author Zoë Quinn. Alec’s sister didn’t state a reason for loss of life, although the implication is obvious.
“Alec was a victim of abuse and he also spent a lifetime battling mood and personality disorders,” Eileen Mary Holowka mentioned in a press release on her Twitter, which she has since set to personal. “I will not pretend that he was not also responsible for causing harm, but deep down he was a person who wanted only to offer people care and kindness. It took him a while to figure out how.”
Eileen mentioned that he “became a new person” in recent times with the assistance of remedy and medicine. “Obviously change is a slow process and it wasn’t perfect, but he was working towards rehabilitation and a better life.”
It seems that, sadly, Alec took his personal life. Eileen mentioned, “We tried our best to support Alec, but in the end he felt he had lost too much.”
Fellow Night In The Woods co-creators Scott Benson and Bethany Hockenberry publicly cut ties with Alec Holowka following the allegations. They weren’t at present working collectively. A developer who had been working with Alec on a present undertaking additionally made claims this week that he’d been abusive within the office, and the NITW people mentioned in a backers-only Kickstarter put up (reproduced here) that they’d heard extra allegations from others they trusted and believed.
Many of the individuals related to Alec have set their Twitter accounts personal or deleted them. Eileen had sturdy phrases for individuals in search of to wield her brother’s loss of life as a weapon.
“And in case it’s not already fucking apparent, Alec particularly mentioned he wished the perfect for Zoë and everybody else, so don’t use our grief as an excuse to harass individuals. Go outdoors, handle somebody, and work in the direction of stopping these sorts of issues within the first place.”
Our ideas are with everybody concerned at this troublesome time.
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