Naughty Dog Technical Director left: worked for the company for 17 years and participated in the development of works such as "mysterious Sea"

CTOnews.com, 11 / 11 / PRNewswire-Asianet /-- in the early hours of this morning Beijing time, naughty Dog's official Twitter announced that Christian Gyrling, the company's technical director, decided to leave the naughty dog after 17 years of working at the company.

Christian Gyrling joined the naughty dog in 2006 as the programmer of the first Mystic Sea, and was promoted to chief programmer in 2010, vice president of naughty dog in 2020, and technical director in July 2023.

"We are deeply grateful for his many contributions to the studio, games and colleagues," the naughty dog said in a statement. "We will miss him and wish him every success in the rest of the road."

Next, the position of technical director will be replaced by Travis McIntosh, who has worked for naughty dogs for 19 years, who previously served as the chief programmer of Mystery Seas and the program director of the second season of the Last Survivor.

Prior to this, Evan Wells, the former co-president of naughty dog, announced his resignation in July this year, and Josh Scherr, the former narrative designer, made the same choice.

CTOnews.com previously reported that Anders Howard, the chief monetization designer for the Last Survivor, chose to leave amid recent layoffs at the naughty dog studio. Anders Howard joined the naughty dog in November last year after working at Epic Games for more than eight years.