Kim Swift

Kim Swift is best known for her work on Portal, which was based on her student project Narbacular Drop.

Kim was a student at Digipen, she along with 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 lead to Portal, which was based on the core mechanics of their student project.

In early December of 2009, she left Valve to work for Airtight Games to work on an unknown project as the lead, 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."

Kim's new project with Airtight Games is still unknown at this time.

Name	Platforms	Developer
Left 4 Dead 2 released on Nov. 17, 2009	MAC, X360, PC	Valve Corporation
Left 4 Dead released on Nov. 18, 2008	MAC, X360, PC	Valve Corporation, Certain Affinity
Portal: Still Alive released on Oct. 22, 2008	XBLM	Valve Corporation
The Orange Box released on Oct. 10, 2007	PC, X360, PS3	Valve Corporation
Portal released on Oct. 9, 2007	XBLM, PC	Valve Corporation
Narbacular Drop released on April 24, 2005	PC	Nuclear Monkey Software

Full Name:	Kim Swift
Gender:	Female
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Death:	n/a
Credited In:	2 games
1st Game Credit:	Narbacular Drop
Currently Working For:	Airtight Games
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	Chell
	Weighted Companion Cube
	GLaDOS
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