He sold his house and he sold his truck and he gave away his dog and a bunch of his worldly possessions, and he was living with me before he shipped off to go to the jungle, waiting for his tax returns and that kind of stuff to clear. Jacob and I were great friends at Naughty Dog, had worked together for many years there, and Jacob decided that he wanted to exit the business and go off the grid, so to speak. That's my partner in crime, Jacob Minkoff. I’ve heard a story that you almost literally pulled your former Naughty Dog co-worker Jacob Minkoff out of the jungle to work with you on Infinite Warfare. That was to work on Jak 3, and I stayed there for another decade plus working on all four of the Uncharted games before starting at Infinity Ward in 2014. It had gone from eight people when I left to maybe 35 or 40, when I went back. Then the aforementioned Bob Rafei gave me a call one day, I think around the end of 2003 and said, "Hey, could you come help us with some cutscenes and some dialogue temporarily?" So I kind of found myself back at Naughty Dog. I have a film and TV background, and so I went back into the television world. So, I worked on Crash Bandicoot and then kind of took a hiatus from gaming for a while. I think by the time we shipped the game, I think we were at eight people.īob Rafei, who went on to become the art director at Naughty Dog for many, many years.
I was employee number two at Naughty Dog and a large part of that game was made with five people total, including the two founders of the company. Kurosaki: The first video game I ever worked on was Crash Bandicoot, the very first one.
We sat down with Taylor Kurosaki, Infinity Ward’s Narrative Director, to talk about the epic, military spacefaring campaign in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and to find out how the team approached the development process.Īctivision Games Blog: First of all, what is your game development background? You take on the role of Captain Reyes, a Tier 1 Special Operations pilot who unexpectedly takes the helm of the Retribution, one of Earth’s last remaining warships. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has an ambitious campaign that takes players off-planet and plunges them into the midst of a galactic war taking place throughout our solar system.
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