#kiki wolfkill

i just really love this photo and how it brings the scale of these Spartans into play. :’)

Kiki Wolfkill (Halo producer), Jen Taylor (Cortana voice and motion capture) and Pablo Schreiber (Master Chief) from Jen Taylor’s Twitter.

The Game Makers Takes You Inside Game Design

Have you ever been interested in how games are written, designed, and directed? Wanted to listen in on the conversations of some of the biggest names in the gaming industry? Today a trailer was released showcasing a new digital series that will take video game fans behind the scenes of some of the most noteworthy titles to date. Have yourself ready for February 15th when The Game Makers: Inside…

Le paysage de l’industrie du jeu vidéo est secoué par l’annonce du départ de Kiki Wolfkill de Microsoft, après 28 années de loyaux services. Cette figure emblématique, dont le nom est indissociable de la franchise Halo et des stratégies médiatiques de Xbox, a officialisé sa décision sur LinkedIn, suscitant des interrogations sur l’avenir des projets transmedia du géant technologique. Une…

Halo TV series coming to Showtime

Microsoft, 343 Industries, Amblin Television and Showtime have announced that a live-action TV series based on Halo has been picked up for a 10-episode season.

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Meet Kiki Wolfkill: Head of Transmedia at 343 Industries Game Studio

So it's a case that people need to get their heads around it more than the campaign changes, right? "Yeah. I think part of it is all of the new feature detail that we're going to want to share over the next six months. The multiplayer audience wants to understand a lot of detail, and they're also a really vocal audience, so we want to be able to give them information as quickly as possible." You've revealed two maps - why those two particular maps? "Those two maps I think we mentioned are being used for some internal network testing. So those are our ones that are in testing now, we're spending a lot of time with them, it was the most natural..." So it's a more practical thing that anything else? "Yes! We're definitely a highly practical team right now, we're on a tight deadline!" You've been talking about adding more of a story to multiplayer. How are you going to deliver that? Is it through the environment, through text at the start of loading? How are you going to tell story that way? "I think it's really less about really explicit story telling, for instance in competitive, and more about making sure that we're contextualizing the things that you're doing in multiplayer. There will be a higher level narrative and story that ties together and we'll talk more about that soon, but I think in some cases it will be more explicit and in other cases again it will be making sure that there's some context around what you are doing." So it ties into the single player fiction but not in an obvious way - kind of expands it? "I think for us what's important is that it feels natural."

 One particular detail that was interesting was that there's a reason why red and blue teams are competing. Can you say what that means? "I think that refers to that contextualization." Something I found interesting in the Waypoint trailer was that there's a part where you could see Master Chief's arms. Does that mean there's going to be more physicality in terms of the character? "It's definitely a goal for the player to experience more physically. I mean, part of Chief is his physicality and the things that he's able to do himself and not just with a gun. You know, I think we definitely want to be able to express more of what he's able to do as a Spartan from the player perspective." How are you going to do that? At what points in the game will you show that physicality? "Without giving details on story it's hard to give specifics about that. I think it's really about when it makes sense for the player. I think we're looking for more narrative tools than just first person shooter perspective [then] cutscene, right? So there are some pieces of the story that you'll want to be able to experience in some different ways." So it's not just recently [in shooters] where you're climbing a ladder and you see the character's arms, that kind of physicality. It's more a way of delivering story? "Yeah. I think it's really, again, we look at all our narrative tools, the design of the environment, the design of a crate, the audio that people experience - all those are ways of queuing player understanding of what is happening and telling that story. So that is a pillar for us. We look at really any means we can to move that story forward."