Today, BAFTA has announced that Siobhan Reddy, studio director of Media Molecule, will be awarded the BAFTA Fellowship at this year's Games Awards ceremony.
The Fellowship award is the academy's highest honour, given to individuals for their achievements and contributions to the medium. Reddy will receive the award for her "creative contribution to the industry", as well as her "pioneering work on advocacy for diversity, inclusion and creative and collaborative working culture".
Reddy joined Media Molecule shortly after its founding in 2006 and was named studio director just a few years later. She says she's "incredibly honoured and moved" to be receiving the Fellowship, which she adds "provides further motivation" for her and others to champion "inclusivity, diversity and building a work culture that celebrates creativity".
With the Fellowship award, Reddy joins the likes of John Carmack, Hideo Kojima, Shigeru Miyamoto, Tim Schafer, Gabe Newell, and many others as recipients. We must extend our congratulations to her for this well-deserved award.
If you're interested in learning more about Siobhan Reddy and her time at Media Molecule, we conducted an interview with her last month, which you can read through the link.
In other news, Media Molecule's create-'em-up Dreams has been nominated for multiple BAFTA awards. The ceremony is set to take place on 25th March, in just a few days.
[source bafta.org, via videogameschronicle.com]
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Good. Congratulations to her. I think it's good for gaming as a whole that companies like Media Molecule exist. Dreams should come as pre-loaded software on new PS5's. Might encourage some user creativity.
I hope she's "Reddy" to receive it...
Dreams would also make an awesome home space for PSVR2 and doing live events.
@LordSteev I wonder how difficult it would be to separate out the “play” section from the “create” section. That might be a way to broaden the audience while still keeping revenue coming from anyone who wants to get the creation tools. It could also keep the amount of junk content to a minimum. My guess is that if the creation tool was given away there would be a deluge of crap from people who just wanted to give it a go, or who can’t help posting, uh, anatomic allusions...
Congratulations!
I LOVE Media Molecule Well saying that I wish they would just make a LBP type game again but without the Create stuff really Forgot about all this Create stuff I say(like Dreams) because hardly anyone is that bothered really(sorry to say MM) Come on! Make a LOVELY 'British sense of humour' type of game that was like the LOVELY LBP1 & 2 And get Stephen Fry to do the voice over again to(that was charming)
Congratulations and well Deserved to Siobhan Reddy and the whole Media Molecule for an incredible creativity tool.
@Total_Weirdo I agree it is strange that is not already the case, especially when you consider the games industry is worth more than music and film combined!
Dreams is a really remarkable piece of software.
Well done her and MM.
I'm hoping PS5 version will be given on PS+ to help playerbase, that and 'crossplay' with a PC version.
@Amnesiac
I was more picturing an ideal dream world utopia, I guess. More along the lines of giving a million monkeys a paintbrush in the hopes that one of them paints the Mona Lisa.
Never even considered the potential 'eggplant problem', lol. I think if you give enough people access to the creation tools at no cost, maybe you interest some people in game development careers, etc., and bring some more interesting things to the play side of it.
They'd probably have to monitor what gets released online, however, you're right. That might mean having to pay a few people, so it's probably just a pipe dream.
@LordSteev Thinking about a vast room full of monkeys furiously waving their controllers around in the hopes of building a coherent level is a fantastic image. You've changed my mind about pre-loading the software.
Also, I have to say that the quality of what's on Dreams now compared to the early days is astounding. Siobhan Reddy and her team deserve every accolade they receive.
@Amnesiac
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