Kirsty Rigden's guest appearances

Kirsty Rigden

Checkpoints

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast

Inside Indie Games

Paul Kilduff-Taylor

Gita Jackson

Meg Jayanth

Alexis Kennedy

Jennifer Scheurle

Chris Bell

John Davison

Richard Garriott

Tim Schafer

Justin Ma

Jason Rohrer

Edmund McMillen

Siobhan Reddy

Sean Vanaman

Walt Williams

OwlTail

Kirsty Rigden is the Development Director at FuturLab - an award-winning game studio based in Brighton. Kirsty’s been with the company since 2010. But her career in the industry began back in her university days, when she got a summer job testing games for the BBC. She went on to gain more experience, working as a tester for a mobile company called I-Play. Kirsty told me that this was in the days before the iPhone, and, as she put it, “before it was cool to make mobile phone games”. From game tester, she then progressed to the role of junior games designer at that same company. Kirsty then moved on to the position of Lead Designer at Cohort Games, before heading down to Brighton to work for Relentless, EA, and finally, to FuturLab. 

Kirsty Rigden is the Development Director at <a href="https://futurlab.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FuturLab</a> - an award-winning game studio based in Brighton. Kirsty’s been with the company since 2010. But her career in the industry began back in her university days, when she got a summer job testing games for the BBC. She went on to gain more experience, working as a tester for a mobile company called I-Play. Kirsty told me that this was in the days before the iPhone, and, as she put it, “before it was cool to make mobile phone games”. From game tester, she then progressed to the role of junior games designer at that same company. Kirsty then moved on to the position of Lead Designer at Cohort Games, before heading down to Brighton to work for Relentless, EA, and finally, to FuturLab.

Experimentation & Growth, with Kirsty Rigden

This is a show about videogames, the people who play them and the people who make them. Each week, a guest on the show talks about the games that have shaped their life in one way or another. Games that have inspired them, games that forged connections with others and games that have soothed wounds. Checkpoints!Today's guest is Kirsty Rigden of futurlab, makers of Velocity and Velocity 2x. We chat Pikmin, Atic Atac, Wolfenstein, why we shouldn't fear AI, building a career in games, why the WiiU is the best console ever and, after a misunderstanding of a name, inadvertently come up with one of the greatest ideas for a licensed videogame ever. Oh boy. Cover design: Craig Stevenson - http://onedinosaurandhisballoon.blogspot.co.ukMusic: Samuel Baker - http://soundcloud.com/furoshikiSUBSCRIBE HERE RSS HERE

This is a show about videogames, the people who play them and the people who make them. Each week, a guest on the show talks about the games that have shaped their life in one way or another. Games that have inspired them, games that forged connections with others and games that have soothed wounds. Checkpoints!Today's guest is Kirsty Rigden of futurlab, makers of Velocity and Velocity 2x. We chat Pikmin, Atic Atac, Wolfenstein, why we shouldn't fear AI, building a career in games, why the WiiU is the best console ever and, after a misunderstanding of a name, inadvertently come up with one of the greatest ideas for a licensed videogame ever. Oh boy. Cover design: Craig Stevenson - <a href="http://onedinosaurandhisballoon.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://onedinosaurandhisballoon.blogspot.co.uk</a>Music: Samuel Baker - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/furoshiki" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://soundcloud.com/furoshiki</a>SUBSCRIBE <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/checkpoints-declan-dineen/id961200224" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HERE</a> RSS <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/checkpoints-declandineen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HERE</a>

Rebroadcast - Episode 16 - Kirsty Rigden 