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Occupation. Studio director. Employer. Media Molecule. Siobhan Reddy is a South African-Australian video game executive. She is the studio director of Media Molecule, a video game development studio based in Guildford in the United Kingdom, most famous for their debut title LittleBigPlanet .
In March, they moved into a studio in Guildford, Surrey; around this time Siobhan Reddy, the studio director, joined Media Molecule. Reddy is occasionally regarded as the fifth co-founder. On 1 June 2006, Media Molecule announced they had signed an exclusive deal with SCE.
Feb 19, 2021 · We sat down with studio director Siobhan Reddy to chart Media Molecule's history. Touching on the origin of the team, Sony's acquisition, and breaking from the 'Play Create Share' ethos with ...
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Oct 8, 2018 · Siobhan Reddy: Thank you! This is such an honour, it’s a pleasure to be here. I am pretty sure I was born playing make believe. Whether it was playing with dolls, lego, paints or in the pool, I always remember creating my own worlds and adventures. The most wonderful part of being a child is only needing your imagination for play.
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Nine game developers (and one studio) have received the honour before Reddy. The first was Sim City and The Sims creator Will Wright in 2007, and since then the honour has been awarded primarily to men in the game development industry with vast creative profiles, such as 2020 recipient Shigeru Miyamoto, the game designer who is widely credited with...
Reddy sees her job as one of cultivation. As studio director, she’s responsible for ensuring that the team’s structure serves both the project, and the team members themselves. In her own words, she is ‘madame cat herder,’ and throughout the industry she is renowned for her commitment to facilitating strong, harmonious creative workplace cultures. ...
From Media Molecule’s modest beginnings, Reddy brought industry expertise from a previous production role at Criterion Games to the ragtag creative crew of ex-Lionsgate employees (Mark Healey, Kareem Ettouney, David Smith, and Alex Evans) who founded the studio. Put simply: ‘I knew how to ship things, they knew how to build things together. That wa...
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Mar 22, 2021 · Posted: Mar 22, 2021 4:04 am. Media Molecule Studio Director Siobhan Reddy will receive BAFTA's highest honour, the BAFTA Fellowship during this week's BAFTA Games Awards. Reddy will be...
Feb 12, 2013 · Siobhan Reddy, LittleBigPlanet and Tearaway developer Media Molecule's studio director, is one of the U.K.'s 100 most powerful women, according to the BBC radio program Woman's Hour.
