Bruce Straley

Bruce Straley is an American game director, artist, designer, and studio director. He previously worked for the video game developer Naughty Dog, known for his work on the video games The Last of Us and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. Straley's first video game work was as an artist at Western Technologies Inc, where he worked on the Menacer six-game cartridge (1992) and X-Men (1993). He formed a company, Pacific Softscape, working as a designer on Generations Lost (1994). After the company disbanded, Straley was hired at Crystal Dynamics, working as a designer on Gex: Enter the Gecko (1998) and as game director for Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko (1999); he left the company during development of the latter.