Gaëtan Boulanger
Discover the origin of a legendary studio!
1996, at a time when 3D is still in its infancy, a relatively unknown team gives birth to Crash Bandicoot. A technical and artistic feat that shakes the video game landscape, and reveals to the eyes of the world what the young PlayStation is capable of. Naughty Dog has just signed its first major success. A few years later, after several sequels that see the marsupial become a global cultural phenomenon, Jak and Daxter take the stage. Once again, it delivers: an immersive adventure, magnificent on every level, cements the studio in the pantheon of exceptional developers. A triumph that its subsequent franchises, Uncharted and The Last of Us will only amplify.
Based on more than thirty exclusive interviews with former members of the team and extensive investigative work, the author details the history of the Californian developer, from the first games created in a sub- ground in 1982 until the release of Jak X in 2005, and answers every possible and imaginable question about the development of the Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter series'!
Did you know that some Naughty Dog games were published by Electronic Arts? That before embarking on the first Crash, the members of the studio were working on an FPS? Do you know the ins and outs of the quarrel that opposed them to Universal Interactive for a long time? Did you suspect that Evan Wells, the studio's current president, was actually hired by accident? In this book, you will meet passionate and ambitious developers, aiming for neither more nor less than excellence… even if it means imposing a pace of work that will push many of them to leave the company. And this also concerns its founders.
Find out all these stories, and more, in the biggest investigation ever into the glorious studio Naughty Dog.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
LANGUAGE | BINDING | EDITION | ISBN | YEAR | PAGES |
French | Hardcover | | 9782371880955 | 2021 | 592 |
OTHER NAMES
L'Histoire de Naughty Dog
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Authors: #GaetanBoulanger
Publishers: #PixNLove (Pix 'N Love)
Languages: #French
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Year: #Year2021
Genres: #GeneralHistory #Interviews
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