Josh Scherr has left Naughty Dog after 21 years. He started there as a cinematic animator and branched into narrative design. He worked as co-writer on all the Uncharted games besides Uncharted 3 and was part of the writing team on The Last of Us Part 2.
Naughty Dog animator and writer Josh Scherr leaves after 21 years
Here goes:
When I was a kid, making video games was my hobby. Never dreamed I’d get to make them for a living, let alone at a studio like Naughty Dog.
Last week, after 21 years & 10 shipped games, I said goodbye to my friends & c̶o̶l̶l̶i̶e̶s̶ colleagues at the kennel.
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— Josh Scherr (@joshscherr) July 15, 2022
During his tenure at Naughty Dogg, Scherr worked on 11 beloved PlayStation titles.
He started as a cinematic animator on Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy and then worked as the lead cinematic animator on the rest of the series and helped animate the cutscenes in the spin-off PSP title Daxter. He then went on to be the lead cinematic animator on Uncharted, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, and Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, before switching to staff writing.
After that, he co-wrote Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. The last completed game he worked on was The Last of Us Part 2 where he worked as a narrative designer and provided additional writing.
In the tweet announcing his departure, he wrote:
Here goes:
When I was a kid, making video games was my hobby. Never dreamed I’d get to make them for a living, let alone at a studio like Naughty Dog.
Last week, after 21 years & 10 shipped games, I said goodbye to my friends & c̶o̶l̶l̶i̶e̶s̶ colleagues at the kennel.
To all my amazing coworkers over the years:
I’m so grateful for your inspiration, your support, & your trust. Thank you for putting up with my faults, forgiving my mistakes, & giving me opportunities to grow.
Y’all are what made those 21 years memorable. We had fun.
I’ll miss the Dogs a ton, but at some point, I’ll get to play a Naughty Dog game knowing very little in advance. And they are cooking up some *incredible* stuff.
Seriously, URNOT
