Last week, among the hustle and bustle of PAX Prime, a digital book about video game art development was released for free online.  This book, called Vertex, is an industry wide collaboration project organized by Ryan Hawkins. I’m very excited to share this because I and a few other developers at Naughty Dog contributed some of our knowledge to it.A unique inside look at our specific disciplines within the field To be precise, the Dogs who wrote the articles with me are all on the Environment team. Jeremy, Anthony (@Vaccaro3d), Brad and I (@DBal) took some time to write a little about what we do on a daily basis at Naughty Dog.  As each of us are specialized within our field this is a unique inside look at our specific disciplines within the field,  but together, we show a progression of how we work as a team to make the environments of Uncharted and The Last of Us. Combined, our articles total 31 pages worth of techniques, in-game examples and images Read more...

We are always looking to improve the experience of naughtydog.com and as such we are thinking of changing our commenting systems, but we want to get your opinion first.We want to get your opinion first. Currently, we are using our own built in commenting system that is connected to your PSN ID. We did this so that you can have the same identity on naughtydog.com as you would have on the forums. As we continue to evolve with technology, we have been contemplating about moving to a new commenting system that would offer a better experience, more options, and improved site performance. There are pros & cons to this move. The commenting systems we are thinking about implementing are either Livefyre or Disqus. Both are real-time 3rd party commenting systems that offer many features that we currently do not have, such as notifications, media embedding, social posting, and 3rd party account sign-in. The last feature is something we would like to point out. If we chose to move Read more...