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Insomniac games
Insomniac Games, Inc. Current Insomniac Games logo. Тип Private
Год основания 1994
Расположение Burbank, California, USA
Ключевые фигуры Ted Price (CEO)
Отрасль Video game industry
Продукция Ratchet & Clank series (2002 - Present)
Resistance series (2006 - Present)
Spyro series (1998 - 2000)
Disruptor (1996)Число сотрудников 225
Веб-сайт Insomniac Games, Inc. Американская компания, производитель компьютерных игр, появилась в 1994 производившая тайтлы для PlayStation, PlayStation 2, и PlayStation 3 . Они создали Disruptor, первые три Spyro the Dragon игр, а так-же Ratchet & Clank. Представила релиз игры от первого лица Resistance: Fall of Man в 2006 для PlayStation 3. В 2007, Insomniac представила релиз Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, их первую Ratchet & Clank для PlayStation 3. В 2008, компания представила их первый тайтл для PlayStation Network, Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty, и их третий тайтл для PlayStation 3, Resistance 2. В тот момент они также выпустили их пятую игру для Playstation 3, Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time. Insomniac Games продали более 32 миллионов копий игр для серии приставок PlayStation.[1]
Содержание
Описание компании
Файл:Insomniac Games Logo.pngThe original logo for Insomniac GamesInsomniac была зарегистрирована в 1994 как производитель компьютерных игр и сейчас находится в Burbank, California. Их первая игра была названа Disruptor для PlayStation, которая была выпущена 20-ого ноября, 1996 года, и получила большой успех. После, компания выпустила множество игр (Полностью или частично созданных самой компанией) для PlayStation, PlayStation 2, и PlayStation 3 и все имели большой успех на рынке компьютерных игр. После того, как компания выпустала первые три игры Spyro the Dragon , компания потеряла лицензию на Spyro the Dragon и передала ее к Universal Interactive Studios, которая была известна как Vivendi Games (сейчас Activision Blizzard). После, оини создали серию компьютерных игр Ratchet & Clank. Игра Ratchet & Clank была первая игра выпущенная на PlayStation 2 в Япония. В итоге побывала в листе топ 100 игр Японии
В 2003 году, несколько из сотрудников компании покинули ее и созали новую компанию, которую назвали High Impact Games.
В 2006 году, Insomniac представила игру от первого лица Resistance: Fall of Man(Изначально была названа "I-8") для PlayStation 3. в игре присутствовали футурестические оружия, как и в серии Ratchet & Clank'.
В 2008 году на Game Developers Conference, Insomniac анонсировала новый проект названный Nocturnal Initiative. Это бесплатный проект в стиле wiki, в котором {рассказывалось-бы о технологиях которые могли-бы использоваться в других играх? - требуется уточнение}. Insomniac рассказала о технологиях которые они использовали в играх Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction и Resistance 2.[2]
In an interview with GameDaily BIZ in June 2008, Ted Price announced that Insomniac Games plans to expand and open a sister studio in North Carolina, with Chad Dezern taking on the role of studio director. Dezern will be hiring twenty-five to thirty new developers and will prepare the studio to begin work on games based on new and existing intellectual properties.[3] The new studio opened January 2009 and has eight opening for North Carolina.[1]
В Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal и Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time, игроки могли найти Пасхальные яйца так-же известные как "Insomniac Museum". Он расположен на планете Dantopia (a reference to the late Dan Johnson) и Burbank(a reference to the company's location). В музее можно найти вещи, врагов, объекты и концепты которые не вошли в финальную версию игры. Insomniac Museum во {многих?} играх похож на офис Insomniac Games.
Игры
Insomniac Games выпустила тринадцать игр после ее появления в игровой индустрии.
Название Дата релиза в US Платформа Disruptor November 20, 1996 PlayStation Spyro the Dragon September 10, 1998 PlayStation Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! November 2, 1999 PlayStation Spyro: Year of the Dragon October 11, 2000 PlayStation Ratchet & Clank November 7, 2002 PlayStation 2 Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando November 11, 2003 PlayStation 2 Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal November 2, 2004 PlayStation 2 Ratchet: Deadlocked October 25, 2005 PlayStation 2 Resistance: Fall of Man November 17, 2006 PlayStation 3 Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction October 23, 2007 PlayStation 3 Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty August 21, 2008 PlayStation 3 Resistance 2 November 4, 2008 PlayStation 3 Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time October 27, 2009 PlayStation 3 Люди
- Ted Price (Президент & CEO)
- Alex Hastings (Chief Technology Officer)
- Brian Hastings (Chief Creative Officer)
- Chad Dezern (North Carolina Studio Director)
- Так же: Сотрудники
The Full Moon Show
On the first and third Thursday of every month, Insomniac Games releases a new episode of The Full Moon Show, a podcast which informs listeners on new events happening within Insomniac Games, along with community updates regarding Resistance 2 and their online community. Episodes can be downloaded from the Insomniac website, iTunes and the Zune marketplace.
Partnerships with other developers
Naughty Dog
Insomniac has had a close relationship with developer Naughty Dog from when the two companies worked together in the same building on a Universal Studios back-lot. The company makes games that are similar in style, which sometimes contain references to each other. Demos for one company's games often appear on the other's releases. For example, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! contained a demo of Crash Team Racing. Because of their friendship, many fans have wondered if the two companies would collaborate on a game. However, it has been publicly stated that the two companies do not have plans for making a game together, although both Jak II and Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando feature billboard cameos of each others heroes (and a scene in Going Commando shows Ratchet playing both Jak games). This is taken one step further in Jak X: Combat Racing and Ratchet: Deadlocked as both feature Ratchet and Jak respectively as unlockable skins/characters. In the game Daxter, a Ratchet and a Clank mask can be found.
Contrary to popular belief, Insomniac never borrowed the Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy engine code from Naughty Dog to use on the Ratchet & Clank games, though several key renderers from Naughty Dog made it into code.[4][5] As for the two companies' direct involvement, Naughty Dog's Richard Lemarchand said: "We don't really trade anything concrete in terms of technology, but we definitely compare war stories of life in the trenches, and try and learn from each other's experiences."[6] Ted Price clarified Insomniac's stance on engine technology while obliquely mentioning the shared renderers:
"We've always developed all our own technology. It's been a little frustrating in the past for us to hear people say, 'Oh yeah, the Insomniac game is running on the Naughty Dog engine.' People assumed that we were using Naughty Dog's engine for Ratchet, and that was not true. We shared some technology with Naughty Dog way back when, and that was great, but we are a company that puts stock in developing specialized technology and we will continue to do so." -- Ted Price, Independent PlayStation Magazine, September 2006[4]
Despite these quotes, the credits sequence for Ratchet & Clank on the Sony PlayStation 2 states that "The Ratchet and Clank background engine was developed using proprietary techniques and code developed by Naughty Dog."
With the release of the PlayStation 3, both developers seemed to be changing focus aesthetically from character-based platformers to more realistic, mature-themed action games with Naughty Dog's action series Uncharted and Insomniac's sci-fi first-person shooter series Resistance. Both main protagonists of these series has the same first name "Nathan" (Nathan Drake in Uncharted series and Nathan Hale in Resistance series). The exception is Insomniac's continuation of the Ratchet and Clank series onto the PlayStation 3.
Sucker Punch Productions
Although Insomniac isn't as close to Sucker Punch Productions as it is to Naughty Dog, they do exchange stories and tips. Sucker Punch, much like Insomniac and Naughty Dog, created a well-known platformer in the PS2 era (Sly Cooper) and a more realistic game on the PS3 (inFamous). A demo of Sucker Punch's Sly Cooper 2 can be found in Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal. Sucker Punch is also affiliated with Sony Computer Entertainment, with nearly all of its games being published by it and also being PlayStation exclusives.
High Impact Games
High Impact Games is a company formed by ex-Insomniac staff. They have released the titles Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters and Secret Agent Clank for the PlayStation Portable, as well as a PlayStation 2 port of Size Matters. They are also close friends with Naughty Dog and worked on Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier for PSP and PS2.
References
Шаблон:More footnotes
- ↑ http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-10-2009/0004985745&EDATE
- ↑ Insomniac Announces Nocturnal Initiative, Gives Away Source Code (2008-02-21). Проверено 22 февраля 2008.
- ↑ 'Resistance' is futile. Insomniac Games has revealed to GameDaily BIZ that it's becoming bi-coastal with a new studio in North Carolina. We speak with CEO Ted Price about his company's plans. (2008-06-03). Проверено 6 июня 2008.
- ↑ 1 2 Slate, Chris. "PS3 Trailblazing: PSM Chats With Ted Price, President of Insomniac Games." Independent PlayStation Magazine Sep. 2006
- ↑ Price, Ted Postmortem: Insomniac Games' Ratchet and Clank. Gamasutra (June 13, 2003). Проверено 19 июля 2009.
- ↑ Robinson, Martin. "Naughty Dog Q&A" IGN UK 30 July 2008
External links
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