Former Naughty Dog staff form new team, Big Red Button

by Andrew Yoon { Feb 15th 2008 at 12:00PM }

Naughty Dog, known for their work on Sony franchises, like Crash Bandicoot, Jak & Daxter and most recently, Uncharted, is one of the most well-respected development teams in the industry today. So, when two high-profile former staff of Naughty Dog go somewhere new, heads undoubtedly turn.

The two co-founders have a long history with Naughty Dog: Bob Rafei was the Art Director of Naughty Dog for the past 13 years. E. Daniel Arey acted as Senior Designer and Creative Director of Naughty Dog for ten years. The two have teamed up to make a studio focused on original characters -- they want to become "the United Artists of games."

According to their website: "Our commitment is to make not just fun, engaging and compelling games, but games that everyone can play, and everyone will want to play. We at BRB share this long term vision, intending to grow the gaming market, both in terms of age and gender demographics, as well as in emotional appeal." Currently, they have six IPs in "concept development." We wish this new team best of luck, but looking at the pedigree of their games, we doubt they need it.

[Via Joystiq]

Tags: big-red-button, bob-rafei, e-daniel-arey, naughty-dog

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

brettjr @ Feb 15th 2008 12:04PM

Basically with all the "games for everyone" "everyone get to play" talk, they're saying they want to go multiplatform and probably disagreed with Naughty Dog staying Sony exclusive.

Anyway, oooh folding@home update.

Eggy @ Feb 15th 2008 12:27PM

That might be the fanboy conclusion drawn from this. If you read what it actually says in the third part you know they mean something totally different.

Eggy @ Feb 15th 2008 12:28PM

This part: grow the gaming market, both in terms of age and gender demographics, as well as in emotional appeal.

russell @ Feb 15th 2008 12:32PM

they built the naughty dog team, which is a really brilliant group of minds. can't wait to see what they put out with BRB

brettjr @ Feb 15th 2008 1:17PM

All that part means is they'll also be developing for the Wii.

Now explain to me how is what I assumed the "fanboy" version of it? Was your pointless comment suppose to make you look smart or something? Hell I didn't even imply that it was a bad thing.