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[Andrew2]

Another interesting Job listing and the status of the project seem unannounced. They seem to have some big requirements to boot.


Naughty Dog Inc. (Sony) - Santa Monica, California, United States
Generalist Programmer - PS2, PS3
- Unannounced
ENGINEER / PROGRAMMER Duties: 3D GRAPHICS / RENDERING, CONTROLLER / JOYSTICK CODE / FORCE FEEDBACK, Embedded Systems, GAME ENGINE, GAMEPLAY / LOGIC, MATH / PHYSICS / ALGORITHMS, R & D / NEW TECHNOLOGY, SPECIAL FX / PARTICLE SYSTEMS, TOOLS / API's / PLUG-INS, UI / FRONT END / HUD
Software Used: Assembly, C, C++
Spoken Language(s): English
Required Work Auth.: United States

Job Description and Responsibilities:
We refer to people with a lot of experience in many different areas of game development a "Generalists", or people generally good at everything. A Generalist isn't afraid to take on any programming challenge, and will be expected to come up with clever and efficient solutions for any given problem. To be a Generalist at Naughty Dog you must be extremely talented, clever, experienced, and self-motivated. Most of our Generalists have been Lead Programmers in the past, which is not surprising given that people chosen to lead a project are typically chosen for the same qualities that we covet in our Generalist programmers.

Requirements:
We require a minimum of 3 years of video game experience, and it is not unusual for an applicant to have in excess of 10 years of experience. We require good 3D math skills.

Naughty Dog Job listing

 

[Mrbob]

I would be more surprised if Naughty Dog did not have a PS3 title in the works.

 

[sangreal]

A first party developer developing for their parent company's consoles? Impossible.

 

[Andrew2]

A first party developer developing for their parent company's consoles? Impossible.

Of course theres no impossibility that ND wouldn't be working next-gen titles.

But seriously though, its quite interesting at a time when most devs are migrating over to either the Xbox 2, PS3 or Revolution, you still have a developer like Naughty Dog working on a legacy platform. In the case of ND, they apparently still have an unannounced PS2 title.

 

[Kleegamefan]

If true, I think this is the first time they have worked on more than one game at a time...

 

[evil ways]

Aren't they supposedly planning a brand new franchise for PS3?

 

[SKOPE]

If true, I think this is the first time they have worked on more than one game at a time...

Crash Team Racing and Jak and Daxter were in development simultaneously at one point.