Left 4 Dead, Portal Vet Kim Swift Joins Airtight as Developer Seeks Broader Market (Updated)

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  you need to read btw the line: why do you switch job usually? MOAR MONEY! : Frush81
  • MOAR MONEY now isn't worth shit if your job doesn't exist this time next year? : AgentPothead
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    please dont say "moar" you look like an 11 yo : spaceyme
    • please dont say "yo" you look like a gang dewd : razorblade79
  • Ms. Swift, here is the contract..."MOAR MONEY!" Plain and straight to the point. : silverback1138
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  yeah, from the outside looking into her situation, this seems like the most boneheaded move possible. Th... : MonolithicTentacledAbomination
  • Money bags > e-penis standings. I'd shovel shit if it paid a substantial more than what I make now. : 0mar
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    I am no industry insider but this is EXACTLY what I thought. Leave a job at Valve? Are you nuts? That's l... : Dr_Cube
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      There are probably a number of reasons that aren't evident to us unless we worked there. I can take a few... : Porkasaurus
      • That's true. I just keep thinking in terms of resources which are a factor in determining what you can ac... : Dr_Cube
• Like that Korean kid that moved back home to live on his family's rice farm or what ever. : Jimbo Ro
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  same could have been said about Gabe when he left Microsoft to start some viddy game company. : deathofrats
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    Except that Gabe was already quite rich at that point and could self-finance Valve for a time if necessar... : poindexter1985
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      That's no guarantee of success. : Fred Garvin
      • sure doesn't hurt either : happynoodle
      • It doesn't hurt, and the point is that he didn't need Valve to be successful. : poindexter1985
• Clearly they aren't that great to work for. : SlingBlaze
• Haven't you heard? After the L4D fiasco Valve is just another company. : Mystery0000
• Yeah it couldn't be possible that there is a good reason for her to do this. Not possible at all. : Fred Garvin
• You're implying valve is not only a great dev and publisher, but also a flawless workplace... : d fluke

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  GDC every year has a game design challenge where they get a few prominent game devs to design a game base... : beanman101283
  • Huh. : Smurfy12
  • what the fuck : Godhatesfatpeople
  • Someone shine the Remo-light and have him give us the real deal on this gregarious situation : MrLobo
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    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=GDC+kim+swift : Davidget
    • For using the "let me google this for you" for someone I nominate you for the "...hole of the week". Cong... : madspacemarinemustdie
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    if it were me i probably would have backed out whether valve wanted me to or not. that's fuckin retarded : dantastic
    • That's debatable, but I wonder if the GDC folks approached Kim Swift individually rather than through Val... : beanman101283
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      I dont know, the challenge I would find interesting would be to do it in a way that wasnt crass or retard... : Beady
      • Here's a write up of what the different presentations turned out to be: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6... : beanman101283
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        My game would have been a black screen with the words "Get the fuck off your computer." in big white lett... : SockMonkeh
        • If a game could somehow get across the feelings and emotions of that kind of event, I'd be very intereste... : beanman101283
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      What a bunch of immature reactions. What's retarded is America's fear of sex. How do you even expect game... : Mystery0000
      • well, "autobiographical sex game" (via gamespot) doesn't sound very mature to me. actually that only coul... : razorblade79
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        Did you take out your monocle to write this? : eonix
        • No, and I kept my top hat on too. : Mystery0000
    • i dunno that might be more interesting than another game about shooting army dudes or racing : ease one
  • wtf @ topic : Chandler55
  • the specific challenge was a game about "your first time" implying, I think, that "your" would have been ... : Agrona
• Yeah, what's that about? : Smurfy12
• This is allegedly what happened: http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2009/05/11/valve-cockblocks-kim-swifts-f... : noleh8r
• thanks guys : Nitrium

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• wait.. where'd you get that gun ^_- ;o : ClawHammR
• Bram Cohen (creator, BitTorrent) left after a few months. : quanta88
• Read this article on Mike Harrington: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Harrington Kim Swift IMO is more ... : hool10

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  Most likely it means that Valve will release the next Portal game, and she won't appear in the credits. : jet-poop
  • Or they may release a new game with her name still appearing in the credits. Credits in a game never real... : zipr
• Valve is more than one person. Who knows what kind of turnover Valve has had and they still manage to pu... : 0mar
• find kinda weird actually that she'd leave Portal like that, mainly since she was one of the main people ... : ClawHammR
• Absolutely nout. : Creepin_Jeezus

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  That's my guess, Airtight is a huge downgrade from Valve. I used to work for them, their concept of proje... : dravalen
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    And this is different from from industry....how? : Inarion
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      The only crunching at Valve is potato chips in Gabe's mouth M I TRITE? : Jimbo Ro
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        LOL! It's funny because Gabe is obese! : slackshoe
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          Hey don't be talking bad about The Gabe. With all the money Valve has, and seeing how Valve's office is,... : silverback1138
          • Ah, yes. The "Bellevue Bitches". Right. : Killrig
        • Yes that's exactly why it's funny. : themaestro2657
    • I remember reading that Left 4 Dead 2 had very little crunch time. : TheIneffableBob
    • the infinite crunch is stupid and unnecessary. companies that do it churn out turds consistently. : thechunder

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• I imagine she sold the rights to Valve. : Harbinger

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• Makes sense - have you seen Dark Void? Waay too geeky to be successful. : Porkasaurus

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• like totally wwaaaayy more entertaining. : robosextoid
• he does, sadly. fixed :( : Chris Faylor

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• she** : Seabass307
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  Who's spinning this as a message about Valve? : Davidget
  • No one, that was a preemptive statement. : Seabass307