Presented by Richard Lemarchand and Philippe Morin
November 1st10:00 - 11:00Room : Westmount
Buckle up for a wild ride with Naughty Dog’s Richard Lemarchand, Lead Game Designer of the award-winning Uncharted series, as he guides the MIGS audience through a sequence of live gameplay demos spanning the Sony PlayStation 3 exclusives Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and the forthcoming Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception.
Focusing on the evolution of Naughty Dog’s technology, production approach and design philosophy, Lemarchand will discuss how the studio’s goal of creating an actively playable cinematic experience, as well as reinventing the action-adventure story genre for a contemporary audience, lead to the biggest hits in Naughty Dog’s history.
Learning objectives:
The audience will gain an insight into the fast, loose production approach that Naughty Dog employs, will learn about the playtest-driven, player-favoring philosophy that the studio uses to streamline their game experiences towards challenging fun, and will hear first-hand how the studio has progressed over the past seven years from zero lines of PlayStation 3 code towards a hugely sophisticated narrative action-game authoring environment.
Richard Lemarchand Richard Lemarchand is a Lead Game Designer at Naughty Dog in Santa Monica, California, and is currently working on Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. He was the Co-Lead Designer of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, which has been the studio’s most successful game to date, winning 34 Game of the Year awards and four BAFTAs. Richard also worked on Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Jak 3 and Jak X: Combat Racing for Naughty Dog, and helped to create the successful game series Gex, Pandemonium and Soul Reaver at Crystal Dynamics. Richard grew up in a small town in rural England, dreaming of ancient civilizations and outer space. Perhaps as a result, he has a degree in Physics and Philosophy. Philippe Morin Holding a bachelor’s degree in Cinema Studies, Philippe was hired by Ubisoft in 1998 as a Game Designer. Specializing in camera design, he worked among others on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Assassins’ Creed. End of 2005, Philippe left for California and worked at Naughty Dog on Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, being responsible for cameras and AI. After the project, he returned to Montreal as a Creative Director at Ubisoft, then at EA. Today, Philippe is co-founder of the Red Barrels studio and is working on its next game.
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