Next on the employee list is a 3rd Naughty Dog veteran, named Eric Iwasaki, who began with Crash 2 and ended at Uncharted 2. Daniel Arey now? Well he’s now Senior World Designer II at Blizzard Entertainment. Big Red Button only have two sneaked in credits through the involvement of the two founders alone. Remember I said Sonic Boom is their first proper game? That’s still true, because The Lost Frontier actually was developed by High Impact Games who earlier worked on Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters on PSP and PS2 and Secret Agent Clank for PSP (Sazaru Games who’s behind Sonic Boom 3DS actually ported Secret Agent Clank to PS2 later on). IN FACT, he and Bob worked on The Lost Frontier as part of Big Red Button. He’s credited with scripts and cutscenes for Daxter on PSP, Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier on PSP and PS2, and the original Uncharted. I am having trouble at the moment finding his exact positions in the company. Daniel Arey was the other founder of the company, and he was ALSO a Naughty Dog member. So that’s enough about Bob Rafei, he isn’t the only pebble on the beach. He was part of the team who earned Best New Character of the Year for his art design of Daxter in the Jak series. He is also seemingly credited for the art design of Daxter himself: He worked on all of their Crash Bandicoot games, all of their Jak & Daxter games, and the original Uncharted ( that’s where Sonic got his new scarf from you know). He played a key role in establishing the look of this series touching on all aspects of production, from back ground modeling, lighting, texturing, to character rigging and animation. He joined NDI in early ’95 as its first employee while in the visual development stage of Crash Bandicoot. 😉 As you may know from the recent interviews, Big Red Button was co-formed by Bob Rafei, who was a AAA veteran from Naughty Dog, so much so he was actually their first employee, how about that? I have some answers, which is why I made this post.
What on Earth was going on for the last 6 years you ask? Most may have never heard of them before, and you’d be right to not have, because they were formed in 2008, and have not put out a SINGLE title under their name, Sonic Boom will be their first. So as my first own created post where I don’t just post big news, I decided to make it about the results of my research about the developer of the Wii U version of Sonic Boom Big Red Button Entertainment.
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