Nicky Case


Nicky Case is a Canadian indie game developer best known for developing the video game Coming Out Simulator 2014, which was released on 1 July 2014. Case has also developed explorable explanations such as Parable of the Polygons and We Become What We Behold.

Career

''Coming Out Simulator 2014''

Case released Coming Out Simulator 2014 as a submission for the Nar8 Game Jam. It was nominated to the Independent Games Festival's 2015 edition in the Excellence in Narrative category.

''Parable of the Polygons''

Case released Parable of the Polygons in December 2014 in collaboration with Vi Hart. It received overwhelmingly positive critical reception, with Salon's Joanna Rothkopf calling it "an adorable and eloquent primer on the issues of segregation.", and Wired's Aatish Bhatia describing the design and characters as "charming" and "delightfully animated."

Other works

Case released Nothing to Hide, a stealth game prototype, in 2013. The crowdfunded surveillance/privacy-themed video game prototype was crowdfunded and opened under CC0 on GitHub between 2013 and 2015.

Personal life

Case is genderqueer and non-binary and has chosen to be referred to in gender-neutral terms, expressing a lack of preference for pronouns.