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Kim Swift
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1983[1] |
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Tactical Socks[2] |
Kim Swift was a level designer and team leader on Portal[3], for Valve Corporation, she is best known for her work on Portal, which was based on her student project Narbacular Drop.
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[edit] Biography
Kim was a student at Digipen, she along with the students that created Narbacular Drop were hired by Valve through one of Digipen's expos for the seniors' projects. Robin Walker from Valve, approached them with an invitation to Valve HQ to make a presentation. Gabe Newell himself attended the presentation, after it was done, he pulled them aside to ask them if they wanted to work for Valve and recreate their game using the Source Engine.
The hiring of the whole Narbacular Drop team led to Portal, which was based on the core mechanics of their student project.
She received the 2007 "Innovation" and "Game of the Year" awards from the GDC Awards, along with Erik Wolpaw.
In early December of 2009, she left Valve to work for Airtight Games to work as project lead on the video game Quantum Conundrum, a higher position relative to her job at Valve. Jim Deal, the president of Airtight Games is quoted of saying of Swift's move:
“(It) represents a strategic move by Airtight Games into new and broader gaming markets.” "(Kim will) build and lead a team in the development of games aimed at a more diverse audience."
[edit] Work for Portal
[edit] Complete gameography
- Rumble Box (2005)
- Narbacular Drop (2005)
- Half-Life 2: Episode One (2006)
- Portal (2007)
- Half-Life 2: Episode Two (2007)
- Left 4 Dead (2008)
- Left 4 Dead 2 (2009)
- Fat Princess (2009)
- Quantum Conundrum (2012)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
Kim Swift on Facebook
Kim Swift on MobyGames
- Narbacular Drop - Interview
- The Portal Interview
- Video - Our Journey From Narbacular Drop To Portal
- Video - Kim Swift Left 4 Dead 2 TGS 2009 Interview
