cormack12
Gold Member
Naughty Dog isn't just a company riddled with crunch. It's a leading example. And it deserves to be shamed.
Jim touches on some subjects around ND in general even going back as far as UC4 and talks about how rewrites probably shouldn't be getting done as part of focus test feeedback. He advocates that the company being hirt is godo, though single developers are not. Seems like he is OK with the collateral damage though. Some context from other articles about UC4:
Jim touches on some subjects around ND in general even going back as far as UC4 and talks about how rewrites probably shouldn't be getting done as part of focus test feeedback. He advocates that the company being hirt is godo, though single developers are not. Seems like he is OK with the collateral damage though. Some context from other articles about UC4:
One major consequence of this culture has been attrition. Of the 20 non-lead designers in the credits of 2016’s Uncharted 4, a whopping 14—70 percent—are no longer at the studio, which has had wide-ranging effects on the development of The Last of Us II and led to questions about the continued viability of the Naughty Dog approach.Of particular note, longtime series directors Amy Hennig and Justin Richmond saw their untimely exit from the project back in March 2014, at which point the original script was thrown out, leaving the new lead writers and directors Neil Druckmann and Bruce Streley to pick up the pieces and start from scratch. Being tasked with bringing the Uncharted franchise to close is an undoubtedly monumental undertaking, though Druckmann and Streley appear self-assured that their new script is even better than the one Hennig and Richmond wrote.
Quite a take.