Kiki Wolfkill

After college, Wolfkill interned at multi-purpose computer software company Asymetrix. Following that, she worked for Microsoft Encarta, which was Microsoft's digital encyclopedia. After those, she began to work for Microsoft in the development team to create computer games. Her success there led her to begin her work on Halo. 343 industries was created from Microsoft to focus on the Halo game series. Wolfkill was not only executive producer of both Halo 4 and Halo: The Master Chief Collection,[1] but she was also given the leading role of the Halo Franchise. Both games did very well with Halo 4 getting high critic reviews with aggregate review site Metacritic giving it an 87 out of 100 based on 87 reviews[7] and selling 3.7 million copies within the first day of release,[8] and Halo: The Master Chief Collection also getting generally high critic reviews with aggregating review site Metacritic giving it an 85 out of 100 based on 69 reviews[9] and in the first day of release being in the top five of the popular video game distribution service Steam.[10] Millions were playing it on a regular basis and even 13 million people watched online the 2017 Halo Championship. With the growing popularity of Halo 4, a controversy arose. During Xbox live, sexist comments were made, which go against the Xbox Live Code of Conduct. In addition, women playing the game were insulted and harassed based on their gender from men who were also playing the game. Wolfkill and colleague Bonnie Ross, who is the head of Halo 4 developing, both spoke out on the matter, condemning sexism.[11] Moreover, Halo 4 threatened to give players a lifetime ban from the game and the Xbox Live Network if sexist comments were made.[12]

Wolfkill has been working in the gaming industry for 20 years now. Wolfkill's experience with racing led her to become one of the artists for the racing game studio, later becoming an art lead and art director after continuing to work for Microsoft.[4] Wolfkill was an art director for the Project Gotham series, which is exclusively on Xbox.[13] Wolfkill's success has been recognized. In 2013 Fortune magazine named her one of the top 10 Most Powerful Women in Gaming.[14] The Tribeca Film Festival, which is planned for 2021, will feature a variety of games, some that are competing to win the Tribeca Games Award.[15] An advisory board was recently created to help the decision with the award, as well as make sure the festival highlights new and up and coming video games that will be introduced. Wolfkill is part of the advisory board, along with Hideo Kojima, Sam Lake, Bing Gordon, and Geoff Keighley.[16]