Amy Hennig was born on August 19,1964 and is an American video game director and script writer, formerly for the video game company Naughty Dog.
21 Facts About Amy Hennig
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Amy Hennig began her work in the industry on the Nintendo Entertainment System, with her design debut on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City.
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Amy Hennig later went to work for Crystal Dynamics, working primarily on the Legacy of Kain series.
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Amy Hennig has been called one of the most influential women in the video game industry by Edge magazine.
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Amy Hennig graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in English literature.
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Amy Hennig went on to the film school at San Francisco State University, when she was hired as an artist for an Atari game called ElectroCop.
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Amy Hennig has worked in the video game industry since the late 1980s.
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Amy Hennig later moved to designing and directing video games.
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Two years after being hired at Electronic Arts, Amy Hennig worked as an artist on Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City.
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However, when the lead designer quit, Amy Hennig landed the job.
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Amy Hennig directed and wrote Soul Reaver 2 and Legacy of Kain: Defiance.
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Amy Hennig departed Crystal Dynamics to act as the creative director for Naughty Dog.
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Amy Hennig contributed to the Jak and Daxter series before working as the game director for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, and as head writer and creative director for the Uncharted series.
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Amy Hennig announced she joined Skydance Media in November 2019 to start a new division there, Skydance New Media, for "new story-focused experiences [that] will employ state-of-the-art computer graphics to provide the visual fidelity of television and film, but with an active, lean-in experience that puts the audience in the driver's seat".
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Amy Hennig believes the term "platformer" is outdated and misused with many modern games, preferring a different term like "traversal" for some.
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Amy Hennig feels that focusing too much on graphics can inhibit a game, saying that once game writers focus on creative expression, video games will greatly improve.
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Amy Hennig often uses supporting characters to highlight personality aspects of other characters through interactions within the script.
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Amy Hennig has won two Writers Guild of America Video Game Writing Awards in addition to several other awards for her work on Uncharted 2 and Uncharted 3.
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Amy Hennig has been cited as an example of a successful woman in a historically male dominated industry, and of how women are taking more important roles within it.
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Amy Hennig was given a BAFTA Special Award in June 2016.
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Amy Hennig received the Lifetime Achievement award at the Game Developers Choice Awards in March 2019.