This is no small role.
You’ll see that he hit the ground running at an early age and never stopped.
His passion got himnoticed by Atari at the young age of 17.
He actually dropped out of school to work at the company.
This was the early 80s, soAtari was on top of the world.
In just ten months, Cerny made the game along with Programmer Bob Flanagan and several other artists.
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Influences on the game included mini-golf and the minimalist aesthetic was influenced by artist MC Escher.
He moved to Japan and lived there for many years, learning the language and also meeting his wife.
Before learning Japanese he even worked with a programmer who did not speak English.
He was the VP of product development and during this time he brought bothNaughty Dog and Insomniaconboard.
The two studios developed games exclusively for the PS1, makingCrash Bandicootand Spyro the Dragon, Respectively.
After leaving the company, he went on to form Cerny games, a consulting company.
Naughty Dog andInsomniac are both under the Sony umbrella now.
Dubbed the Method, it establishes a distinct separation between pre-production and production.
Pre-production should be where ideas flourish and heavy experimentation is encouraged.
Once a playable slice is made and approved, the production process is radically different and more focused.
He also consulted on all the early games.
He had a particularly involved hand withCrash Bandicoot 2: The Wrath of Cortex.
His work with Naughty Dog continued all the way until 2007’s Uncharted.
Insomniac still collaborates with Mark Cerny asrecently as Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart.
In fact, 2013’s Knack,a PS4 exclusive, is thefirst game he actually directed.
He also only intended to produce the game but fell into the director role as he became more involved.
Knack was heavily marketed but ultimately did not become a Sony mainstay.
Not all of them are from first-party companies, but most of them are still PlayStation exclusives.
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On the PS3 he served as a design consultant forGod of War 3and Killzone 3.
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