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#1 Gue1
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Nate Wells, who was the lead artist on The Last of Us, has left Naughty Dog for Giant Sparrow where he works as an art director.

Before working on The Last of Us with Naughty Dog, he worked as an art director at (now former) Irrational Games. He moved from Irrational Games to Naughty Dog in 2012.

During his career, he worked on shipping titles such as: Thief: The Dark Project, Thief II: The Metal Age, System Shock 2 and BioShock.

http://www.worldsfactory.net/2014/04/20/nate-wells-tlou-lead-artist-left-naughty-dog#KFIVWi5sI5feleFv.99

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#2  Edited By MonsieurX
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Cows be like

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#3  Edited By tonitorsi
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Sad day. But just to get this out of the way, he was in-studio for only 2 years during mid TLOU development, so he really didn't impacted team development extensively.

I'm sure he's talented, but again, this won't affect Naughty Dog in the slightest.

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#4 TheShensolidus
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@MonsieurX So Nate Wells left Naughty Dog to go work at Giant Sparrow, the small-team Sony-owned "indie" studio inside Sony Santa Monica? And how is that a bad thing for Sony fanboys exactly?

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#7 MonsieurX
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@scottpsfan14 said:

@MonsieurX said:

Cows be like

What are you exactly?

I don't get the question

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#8 GabranthXIII
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@MonsieurX said:

Cows be like

LOL

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#9 Spitfire-Six
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Crongrats on the promotion should do wonders their next project

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#11 Heil68
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Some people just cant handle the pressure of making consistent top 5 GOAT's. we and SONY wished Nate well on his future endeavors.

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#12  Edited By Lulu_Lulu
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He's replaceble... Everbody is

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#13 applefan1991  Moderator
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Ok people, stop leaving Naughty Dog and make me Uncharted 4!!

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#14  Edited By SolidTy
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@Gue1 said:

Nate Wells, who was the lead artist on The Last of Us, has left Naughty Dog for Giant Sparrow where he works as an art director.

Before working on The Last of Us with Naughty Dog, he worked as an art director at (now former) Irrational Games. He moved from Irrational Games to Naughty Dog in 2012.

During his career, he worked on shipping titles such as: Thief: The Dark Project, Thief II: The Metal Age, System Shock 2 and BioShock.

http://www.worldsfactory.net/2014/04/20/nate-wells-tlou-lead-artist-left-naughty-dog#KFIVWi5sI5feleFv.99

Wow, he was barely at Naughty Dog (a little over a year, he left Irrational in Aug 2012). Nate Wells was with Irrational for a long time, since 1999's System Shock 2!

He's going to work for the tiny new team called Giant Sparrow, the team who gave the Playstation "The Unfinished Swan", possibly making some sort of indie game on PS4, Vita, or PS3 (Edith Finch)? Some people want to be involved in smaller scale projects, that's no secret. They have one PS3 game under their belt, so I'd imagine it's pretty exciting to be apart of a new studio at the ground floor. They have a bird theme going on with their name, their only game so far (Swan), and their upcoming game, Edith Finch.

Here's a picture from Sparrow's Website showing how small this Santa Monica team are. They were searching for an Art Director last month, so it all worked out.

Good luck to him.

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#15 TheShensolidus
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News flash for everyone here who even gives a turkey GIANT SPARROW IS OWNED BY SONY! It's the name for the smallish, indie team within Sony Santa Monica. Nate Wells left Naughty Dog to go work at Sony, pretty much.

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#16 Roger_The_Alien
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Dang....why are the all leaving? I hope this isn't a sign of things to come at ND. They are my favorite devs

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#17 MonsieurX
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@scottpsfan14 said:

@MonsieurX: Are you a supporter of the PC master race? or XB1?

Neither?

And why didn't you mention the Wii U?

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#19  Edited By Nengo_Flow
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People act like they dont constantly move around game developer studios to another. This stuff happens ALL the TIME.

This stuff never used to get reported on, now people are trying to make headlines out of it.

I mean look at GOW, David Jaffe only worked on the first one, and every GOW game has had different directors and different people working on it.

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#20  Edited By Shewgenja
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Lems, tell me more about Giant Sparrow. What unscrupulous company stole this pantheon of all things good and Sony away from Sony? Is Giant Sparrow like a league of super villains?

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#21 SolidTy
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@Desmonic said:

Hm. He worked on some cool games actually. I think, given his past, he'll find a job soon enough (or at least I hope so) but it's kinda odd he only stayed 2 years at ND....

No, it wasn't even two years as he joined ND August 2012 after working with Irrational for over a decade.

It was a little over a year and a half though.

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@MonsieurX said:

Cows be like

lmao

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@roger_the_alien said:

Dang....why are the all leaving? I hope this isn't a sign of things to come at ND. They are my favorite devs

Bro calm down he left for a higher position. Art Director is a pretty big step up.

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I find how gamers online stalk other people in real life REAL creepy.

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The last of us.

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#26  Edited By Blabadon
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The Last of Naughty Dog

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#27 DrRockso87
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It sucks that he left Naughty Dog after doing such a fantastic job on The Last of Us but at least he's heading to "Giant Sparrow", the developers behind The Unfinished Swan. Thought that game was great. Looking forward to what he does next.

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#28 princeofshapeir
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He saw that Sony wanted Naughty Dog to push out nothing but Uncharted and The Last of Us sequels and got out while he could.

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#29  Edited By Willy105
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@Kjranu: this is the norm in other industries. Gaming has grown enough that the public can now identify people by name instead of by their studio.

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@tonitorsi said:

Sad day. But just to get this out of the way, he was in-studio for only 2 years during mid TLOU development, so he really didn't impacted team development extensively.

I'm sure he's talented, but again, this won't affect Naughty Dog in the slightest.

Pretty much this

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@theshensolidus said:

News flash for everyone here who even gives a turkey GIANT SPARROW IS OWNED BY SONY! It's the name for the smallish, indie team within Sony Santa Monica. Nate Wells left Naughty Dog to go work at Sony, pretty much.

indiestation 4 confirmed!

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#32 Nike_Air
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Did we have a thread on Ted Timmins leaving Lionhead Studios ? Or was it that nobody really cares about Lionhead anymore ?

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#34  Edited By Couth_
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@lostrib said:

@theshensolidus said:

News flash for everyone here who even gives a turkey GIANT SPARROW IS OWNED BY SONY! It's the name for the smallish, indie team within Sony Santa Monica. Nate Wells left Naughty Dog to go work at Sony, pretty much.

indiestation 4 confirmed!

>Indie
>Owned by Sony

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#35  Edited By SolidTy
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@tonitorsi said:

Sad day. But just to get this out of the way, he was in-studio for only 2 years during mid TLOU development, so he really didn't impacted team development extensively.

I'm sure he's talented, but again, this won't affect Naughty Dog in the slightest.

I agree, but I would like to add he was only at ND closer to a year and a half than two years (joined late 2012 in August), so even less impactful than a full two years would have been! Contrast to Irrational Games where Nate was there for over a decade since before 1999's System Shock. :P

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teh sinking ship

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#37 lostrib
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@Couth_ said:

@lostrib said:

@theshensolidus said:

News flash for everyone here who even gives a turkey GIANT SPARROW IS OWNED BY SONY! It's the name for the smallish, indie team within Sony Santa Monica. Nate Wells left Naughty Dog to go work at Sony, pretty much.

indiestation 4 confirmed!

>Indie

>Owned by Sony

Don't look at me

"indie team within Sony Santa Monica."

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#38 Nike_Air
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@Couth_ said:

@lostrib said:

@theshensolidus said:

News flash for everyone here who even gives a turkey GIANT SPARROW IS OWNED BY SONY! It's the name for the smallish, indie team within Sony Santa Monica. Nate Wells left Naughty Dog to go work at Sony, pretty much.

indiestation 4 confirmed!

>Indie

>Owned by Sony

I don't think they own them anyway. Sony signed them for a 3 game deal - (one game is already out)

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#39 Couth_
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@lostrib: Yeah not you but seems like 90% of this forum doesn't know what that means

@Nike_Air said:

I don't think they own them anyway. Sony signed them for a 3 game deal - (one game is already out)

Yeah.. They don't

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#40  Edited By ReadingRainbow4
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Actually a little concerned about this, why the hell is naughty dog news seemingly popping up so frequently, and not in a good way. Maybe differences in direction.

losing talent, is losing talent.

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#41  Edited By tonitorsi
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@SolidTy said:

@tonitorsi said:

Sad day. But just to get this out of the way, he was in-studio for only 2 years during mid TLOU development, so he really didn't impacted team development extensively.

I'm sure he's talented, but again, this won't affect Naughty Dog in the slightest.

I agree, but I would like to add he was only at ND closer to a year and a half than two years (joined late 2012 in August), so even less impactful than a full two years would have been! Contrast to Irrational Games where Nate was there for over a decade since before 1999's System Shock. :P

He won't be missed.

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#42  Edited By I_can_haz
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@Heil68 said:

Some people just cant handle the pressure of making consistent top 5 GOAT's. we and SONY wished Nate well on his future endeavors.

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#44 Evo_nine
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sony is definitely the best choice for low budget indie crap.

everyone seems to be rushing out the door at naughty dog. must be a great place to work....they need more lady boys in the office to lift morale.

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#45  Edited By SolidTy
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@tonitorsi said:

@SolidTy said:

@tonitorsi said:

Sad day. But just to get this out of the way, he was in-studio for only 2 years during mid TLOU development, so he really didn't impacted team development extensively.

I'm sure he's talented, but again, this won't affect Naughty Dog in the slightest.

I agree, but I would like to add he was only at ND closer to a year and a half than two years (joined late 2012 in August), so even less impactful than a full two years would have been! Contrast to Irrational Games where Nate was there for over a decade since before 1999's System Shock. :P

He won't be missed.

Zack Morris agrees.

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#46 LJS9502_basic
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And? People move on to different jobs every day....am I supposed to be impressed?

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#47  Edited By ReadingRainbow4
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@Evo_nine said:

sony is definitely the best choice for low budget indie crap.

everyone seems to be rushing out the door at naughty dog. must be a great place to work....they need more lady boys in the office to lift morale.

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@MonsieurX said:

Cows be like

Hahaha, good one. I like that.

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@theshensolidus said:

News flash for everyone here who even gives a turkey GIANT SPARROW IS OWNED BY SONY! It's the name for the smallish, indie team within Sony Santa Monica. Nate Wells left Naughty Dog to go work at Sony, pretty much.

Was just about to say this, but didn't so MonsieurX could own himself...which he did.

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@xboxdone74 said:

@theshensolidus said:

News flash for everyone here who even gives a turkey GIANT SPARROW IS OWNED BY SONY! It's the name for the smallish, indie team within Sony Santa Monica. Nate Wells left Naughty Dog to go work at Sony, pretty much.

Was just about to say this, but didn't so MonsieurX could own himself...which he did.

just tell him that pc hasnt won GOTY since 2004. That would surely russell his jimmies ;)