Amy Hennig Joins Visceral Games to Work on Star Wars Project

Ex-Naughty Dog and Uncharted Creative Director Amy Hennig has joined EA and Visceral Games to take the lead on a new unnamed Star Wars project. 

Very excited to share that I'm joining @VisceralGames as Creative Director on a new Star Wars project! http://t.co/QKGtguaDIr

— Amy Hennig (@amy_hennig) April 3, 2014

Amy Hennig's work as a writer for Crystal Dynamics and Naughty Dog on acclaimed series such as Jak and Daxter and Uncharted has led to her being recognised as one of the industry's leading creative designers. 

Steve Papoutis, Vice President and General Manager of Visceral Games wrote an official statement regarding Hennig's appointment on the EA blog: 

"Amy has long been recognized as one of our industry’s top visionaries, and is coming off an amazing run as the Writer and Creative Director of the Uncharted franchise. But her contributions go beyond the games she helped create at Naughty Dog and at Crystal Dynamics, where we worked together many years ago. As both a colleague and friend, I’ve always admired her approach to creative development – focusing on nailing down the soul of a game first, and then making sure the writing, the gameplay, the design and the art comes together to form a unified, interactive experience for the player.  This fits in perfectly with what we’re trying to do here at Visceral and Amy’s going to help us continue in our pursuit to make the most thrilling, immersive games in the world.

Over the last few weeks, Amy and I have spent a lot of time talking about what her first project would be. There are a lot of different directions we could have gone, but I could sense that what really excited her about this opportunity (because let’s face it, we weren’t the only ones knocking at her door) was Star Wars.  Amy’s a huge fan. We happen to be making a Star Wars game. Just thinking about the possibilities made both of us even more excited about having her join the team."