| RECENT NEWS March 03, 2008 The GDC Conference took over San Francisco again on Feb 18-22, and a bunch of the Dogs were there to give presentations on the methods and techniques they honed during the creation of Naughty Dog games like Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. For those of you who couldn't make the conference, or are just curious about the state of the art in game development, below are the presentation materials for download. In no particular order they are: GDC Session Descriptions (Word Document - 32k) In depth Descriptions of the presentations delivered at GDC by members of team Naughty Dog Adventures in Data Compilation - Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PDF File - 1.1Mb) Presented by: Dan Liebgold Amazing Feats of Daring - A Post-mortem for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PDF 18.3Mb) Presented by: Richard Lemarchand Practical Spherical Harmonics Based PRT Methods (PowerPoint 5.7Mb) Presented by: Manny Ko (Naughty Dog) & Jerome Ko (UCSD/Bunkspeed) Uncharted Animation An In-depth Look at the Charactr Animation Workflow & Pipeline (PowerPoint 25.8Mb) Presented by: Judd Simantov & Jeremy Yates The Technology of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PDF 6.6Mb) Presented by: Christophe Balestra & Pål-Kristian Engstad Creating a Character in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PowerPoint 12.8Mb) Presented by: Christian Gyrling Autodesk Mudbox: Integration and Use with Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Maya (PowerPoint 23.7Mb) Presented by: Rich Diamant Normal Mapping Industry Survey (PowerPoint 100.9Mb) Presented by: Ricardo Ariza October 31, 2005 Halloween is upon us once again, and fans of Jak & Daxter have taken the age old pumpkin carving ritual to new heights. Nephew of Naughty Dog's own Amy Hennig checks in with a superb version of Daxter carved into Chuck Brown's favorite autumn gourd.  As if that weren't enough Halloween cheer for you, check out this creation from the head of Programmings son over at Alias. This big time Jak & Daxter fan traded in his carving knife for a power drill to create his version of Pumpkinhead Jak. Great work guys!  September 2005 In past years Jason and Andy donated money, in Naughty Dog's name, to SPCALA to fund new vehicles, animal housing, etc... Those vehicles have been instrumental in the animal recovery efforts underway in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. June 24, 2004 Updated impressions article from IGN Direct link to the screenshots on IGN (They do really nice screen grabs... Bravo!) June 21, 2004 Euro coverage for Jak 3: Gamesdomain Rumourmill TVG update CVG New screens (Please log into E3 section) Pre E3 write up Spong write up PDC Totalgames.net April 6, 2004 JakII recently received the 2003 GamePro Readers Choice Award for Platform Game Of The Year, taking 45% of the Total Vote from GamePro readers. This is the highest honor JakII could have won in the GamePro awards as there is not "Game Of The Year" category. March 9, 2004 Interview with Naughty Dog founder and co-president Jason Rubin conducted shortly after a rousing speech delivered at the D.I.C.E summit in Las Vegas. http://www.gamespot.com March 6, 2004 Coverage of Jason Rubins speech delivered at the D.I.C.E. summit. http://archive.gamespy.com February 27, 2004 The third installment of the Jak & Daxter series is announced and the press reacts. A few choice samples: http://www.1up.com http://www.gamespot.com http://ps2.ign.com http://www.gamepro.com http://www.gameinformer.com http://www.gamesindustry.biz http://lawrence.com http://www.avault.com http://www.playmoreconsoles.com http://news.gaminghorizon.com http://www.gamingworldx.com http://www.gamesarefun.com February 12, 2004 Sony Computer Entertainment America’s first-party Playstation®2 titles honored with numerous industry accolades. Jak II is a gripping, imaginative action adventure game that is plot-driven, with every mission having a direct effect on the storyline. Chosen as PSM's Game of the Year, Best Character Design and Best Story, PLAY Magazine’s Hybrid Game of the Year, Best Graphics and Editors Choice and awarded Action Game of the Year as well as tied for Game of the Year by PSE2, Jak II delivers a deep, compelling storyline full of twists and turns, with more than 90 minutes of cinematic movies, perilous exploration and challenging gameplay. Jak II was also honored with an IGN Editors Choice Award, as well as IGN’s pick for Best Graphics. In addition, Jak II was chosen as GameSpot’s Best Platform Game and Game of the Year for PS2, Gamezone.com’s Best Adventure Game and UGO’s Best Platform Game. Jak II was also ranked among the year’s best games in the San Jose Mercury News and Austin American-Statesman, and also received an honorable mention for the best games of 2003 by CNN.com. |
| COVERS New Covers Added: 22.06.2004 Recent Covers Check out Jak & Daxter’s magazine covers from around the world. A historical look back at Jak coverage from the Precursor era, right up to prerelease Jak3 hype. Have you seen some we missed? Let us know! |
| EVENTS September / October, 2005 In the wake of Hurricane Katrina the dilocation involved not only hundreds of thousands of people, but their pets as well. SPCALA - an important organization championed by Naughty Dog, has been instrumental in aiding the job of animal recovery. October / November, 2003 Massively destructive wildfires strike our home state of California. Naughty Dog is able to offer some help. March 27, 2003 Jason Rubin's PowerPoint Presentation from GDC 2003 Clicking the link above will download PowerPoint document (6.8Mb) March 19-23, 2002 The GDC conference in San Jose California was attended by several members of Naughty Dog. Check the results. Feb.28 - March 1, 2002 The Academy of Arts & Sciences' (A.I.A.S.) D.I.C.E. Summit (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Las Vegas January 6 - 8, 2002 The Naughty Dog 'end-of-game' summit at Mammoth Mountain. December 4th, 2001 Jak & Daxter is released to the public. Check out the package... Friday October 12th, 2001 A quick view of the Tokyo Game show. Wednesday May 16, 2001 Livin’ la vida pero... E3 2001 Los Angeles |
