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How We Made The Last of Us's Interface Work So Well

Alexandria Neonakis- "When I started at Naughty Dog in November of 2012, the studio never had a dedicated UI (user interface) designer or artist before. There were eight months left in development of The Last of Us and while some of the UI elements had already been roughed out, an overall design of the HUD (heads up display) had not been established, and many things were still undecided.

It became my responsibility to figure out the flow of our HUD and menu systems; to work with the programmers and game designers to implement, test and iterate; and finally to skin everything to make sure it fit the established aesthetic of the game."

Austin483655d ago

Good article I cant wait for the sequel.

Transporter473655d ago

No sequel please. I rather have a spin off of the world. Leave Joel and Ellie alone :P. Although i would play it regardless haha.

cfc783655d ago

Naughty Dog made everything work so well 201 game of the year awards truly deserved i thought the interface was clean and easy to use how it should be, great job can't wait for TLOU2.

chrissx3655d ago (Edited 3655d ago )

Looking forward to a sequel featuring an older cold blooded badass ellie

coolbeans3654d ago

I remember seeing this on their Grounded doc video. Definitely didn't look that pretty early on in comparison to the final product.

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The Sounds of the Fireflies ("The Last of Us") concert kicks-off on April 28th, 2024

"The Game Music Foundation are today very proud and pleased to announce an additional concert, circling back to the roots of Game Muisic Festival in Poland. On April 28th, 2024, the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw will once again become a place to celebrate the art of video game music, featuring scores from The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II." - The Game Music Foundation.

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The Last Of Us Series Has Remarkable Potential For Spin-Offs

Najam from eXputer writes "It's time fore a new installment in the series, not another pointless remaster."

anast95d ago

They are working on something new. Not to be rude but it is impossibility stupid to think ND next major announcement is going to be a remaster or their next Last of Us entry is going to be another remaster.

AlterRecs92d ago

I think this is in response to them releasing a remaster for the sequel, a game that didn't need a remaster.

Basically a "why did you put out a remaster no one asked for when you have all there options available"

anast92d ago

They remaster is to put out something quick while they are deving new stuff. I don't get how people can be so static.

AlterRecs91d ago

There's no news about a third game being in production, you're just assuming that they're working on something that they aren't

anast91d ago

When they release the news to start the hype-train, you can give me my props then.

DrDoomer95d ago

I want an alternate timeline spin-off, where part 2 never happened.

CrimsonWing6995d ago

They’ve already done Remasters of 1 and 2… what else is there to Remaster?

AlterRecs92d ago

Considering they remastered the first game twice, who knows lol

CrimsonWing6992d ago

That was a Remake. I guess they could do that to 2, but man…. They should wait a couple generations so it can look like a major upgrade.

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The Last Of Us Online Devs Celebrate Their Experience With The Canceled Game

The team is sad for losing out on such a great project but celebrates its growth because of spending time on it.

Chocoburger139d ago

All they had to do was make a basic online mode like their previous games. Instead they wanted more money and choose to go live service which makes games worse in my opinion.

What a waste of time and money, what a shame.

seanpitt2395d ago

I can't wait for season 2 so they can kill Joel off in the first 2 episodes!! Then it will be just Abby and Ellies revenge plot!

Something is telling me that this won't happen though because it wouldn't make sense, oh wait

Linzoid139d ago

Not sure why they didn’t just make Factions 2. There was no need to make it a live service.

TLoU Factions was a great addition such a shame they couldn’t be bothered to remaster that for PS5 considering the crazy high price tag of the remaster of a remaster…

anast139d ago

This is something to be celebrated. This studio is smart and they get it, even factions 2 wouldn't've have been worth the time. I am surprised they didn't just remaster the first one though, but actually how popular was Factions?