american game director artist designer video game developer known work video games thief end video game work artist worked titles following worked designer titles different companies prior employment worked designer enter deep cover employed naughty dog worked artist crash team racing series following art director drake fortune appointed game director thieves later chosen lead development game director role continued development thief end received praise work particular work highly praised game received awards nominations career worked art design department games game cartridge men following worked designer generations lost bones later employed worked alongside later creative director series later president future naughty dog employees worked designer enter provided additional art deep cover following release march employed naughty dog naughty dog worked artist crash team racing employed texture artist small size team resulted performing jobs including design background modeling foreground size studio grew tasks specific acted artist precursor legacy credited creating technology managed appearance series having knowledge understand technical artistic features communication gap departments drake fortune appointed role art director alongside involved advancing team technology playstation playstation given role game director thieves released following development naughty dog split teams work projects concurrently team working drake deception presidents chose lead development new game selected lead project game director based experience work previous projects originally set develop new game series team felt weren service fans franchise decided create new game titled previously worked found shared similar interests development joked relationship like marriage differing ideas ultimately wish achieve goal role developing handle gameplay final weeks development undertook roles different departments busy tasks example seen hand arranging texts game training screens task lead artist found unusual heard game director like intern task wells said showcased gameplay demonstration sony press conference stance stage internet referred bruce game released june critical acclaim work game nominated best director daily_telegraph ultimately awarded work stanley later continued role game director downloadable expansion pack left following departure naughty dog march announced working thief end game director creative director respectively initial reports claimed forced naughty dog presidents later denied presented gameplay demonstrations playstation experience december june works video games literature film television
Bruce Straley