Exclusive: Behind The Scenes Of Uncharted

The latest issue of Gamasutra sister publication Game Developer magazine includes a creator-written postmortem on the making of Naughty Dog's Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - these extracts reveal how the team wrestled with realism and auto-lock on concepts - before focusing on core mechanics to make the game truly effective.

Designers Neil Druckmann and Richard Lemarchand of Naughty Dog crafted the postmortem, which was introduced by Game Developer editors as follows:

"Uncharted: Drake's Fortune is one of the most critically-acclaimed PlayStation 3 games so far, and features the best shirt-wetting physics bar none. It takes the childhood dreams of developers raised on Indiana Jones and brings them to virtual reality. Naughty Dog takes us through the treasures and snake-filled pitfalls of their first game based in a realistic human world."