Amy Hennig

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Amy Hennig (born August 19, 1964 ) is an American video game director and screenwriter who previously worked for the video game developer Naughty Dog . She is best known for her work on Uncharted 2: Among Thieves , Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception , the Yak-and-Dexter - series and the legacy of Cain - series, which sees itself as its greatest achievement. The Edge Magazine called it one of the most influential women in the video game industry. For Amy Hennig, the story and storytelling of games are in the foreground.

Life

Hennig graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in English literature. She was attending San Francisco State University's film school when she was hired as an artist for an Atari game called ElectroCop. Working on the game, she realized that she was more interested in the video game industry than the film industry. She dropped out of film school soon after.

Career

Hennig has been in the video game industry since the late 1980s. Her first work was for the Nintendo Entertainment System , for which she was mainly employed as an artist and animator . She initially worked as a freelance artist for Electrocop, an unreleased Atari 7800 game based on the launch title of Atari Lynx . She then moved to Electronic Arts as an animator and artist, working on an unreleased title, Bard's Tale 4 and Desert Strike . Two years after joining Electronic Arts, Hennig worked as an artist on Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City. In the late 1990s, she moved to Crystal Dynamics , where she helped Silicon Knights develop Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain . She later worked as a director, producer, and writer for Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver . She also directed and wrote Soul Reaver 2 and Legacy of Kain: Defiance.

Hennig left Crystal Dynamics to work as the creative director for Naughty Dog. She wrote for the Jak and Daxter series before working as Game Director for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and as Headwriter and Creative Director for the Uncharted series. While working on Uncharted 2: Among Thieves , Hennig led a 150-person team that created the game and acted as a writer. She wrote and directed Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. Shortly after starting work on Uncharted 4: A Thief's End for PlayStation 4 , Hennig left Naughty Dog.

On April 3, 2014, it entered Visceral Games on to work with Todd Stashwick in the project Project ragtag, a Star Wars - working game. However, the game was dissolved and the studio closed. Hennig announced that she wants to found a new development studio with Skydance Media and Julian Beak .

Role in the game industry

Hennig is cited as an example of a successful woman in a historically male-dominated industry. The British video magazine Edge named her one of the 100 most influential women in the game industry. Hennig received a BAFTA special award in June 2016 . She received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards in March 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Thomas Ruch: Uncharted series: Amy Hennig is proud of her collaboration on the popular series. In: Play3.de. May 4, 2020, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Amy Hennig's Twitter profile. In: Twitter . Twitter Inc. , accessed June 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Game Industry's 100 Most Influential Womene. In: Edge . June 25, 2011, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Dean Takahashi: Amy Hennig interview - Surviving the trauma of making a video game and inspiring newcomers. In: VentureBeat. February 22, 2019, accessed June 5, 2020 (American English).
  6. ↑ a b c d Ben Fritz: How I Made It: Amy Hennig. In: Los Angeles Times . February 7, 2010, accessed June 5, 2020 (American English).
  7. ↑ Kevin Gifford: COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 8/26/06. In: GameSetWatch. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b Meagan Marie: Women in Gaming: 100 Professionals of Play . DK Publishing, 2018, ISBN 978-0-241-39506-6 ( google.de [accessed June 5, 2020]).
  9. ↑ Amy Hennig. In: Legacy of Kain Wiki. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Philipp Neubauer: Uncharted author Amy Hennig leaves Naughty Dog. In: IGN . March 5, 2014, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Annika Schumann: Naughty Dog: Uncharted-Writer Amy Hennig leaves the studio. In: GIGA.de . March 5, 2014, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  12. ^ Jacob Oller: Uncharted 4 writer reveals Nathan Drake's brother was the original antagonist. In: SYFY.com. February 25, 2019, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Amy Hennig: Uncharted inventor worried about her own future. In: ingame.de . January 18, 2018, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Benjamin Bullard: Rogue One screenwriter blasts EA, says canceled game would've been 'Star Wars Uncharted'. In: SYFY.com. January 22, 2019, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  15. ↑ André Linken: Uncharted author Amy Hennig now works for Skydance Media. In: PC Games . November 19, 2019, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  16. ↑ David Molke: Uncharted author Amy Hennig founds a new development studio. In: GamePro . November 19, 2019, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Michael McWhertor: Amy Hennig's new studio will make 'story-focused' games for 'emerging streaming platforms'. In: polygon . November 18, 2019, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Michael Krosta: General: Amy Hennig ("Uncharted") hires at Skydance Media; Games with a narrative focus planned. In: 4Players . November 20, 2019, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Alex Wawro: BAFTA honors veteran game designer Amy Hennig with a Special Award. In: Gamasutra . May 24, 2016, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Brendan Sinclair: Amy Hennig to receive lifetime achievement award. In: gamesindustry.biz. December 11, 2018, accessed June 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hennig, Amy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American video game director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1964