Insomniac Games
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Insomniac Games is a video game developer. They created the first three Spyro the Dragon games, as well as the Ratchet & Clank series and Resistance: Fall of Man.
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[edit] Company overview
Insomniac was founded in 1994 as an independent video game developer and is now based in Burbank, California. Its initial game, a first-person shooter called Disruptor for the PlayStation, was released on November 20, 1996, and was a critical darling. Since then, the company has released seven more games in two series (both of which were created by the company) for the PlayStation and the PlayStation 2, and all have been both critical and commercial successes. After three Spyro games, the company went on to create the Ratchet & Clank series. The first Ratchet & Clank has the notable distinction of being the first Western-produced game to be officially bundled with the PS2 in Japan, a country notoriously fickle in its video game tastes.
[edit] Relationships
[edit] Naughty Dog
Insomniac has had a close relationship with fellow developer Naughty Dog. They make games that are similar in style, which sometimes contain references to each other. (Look at the some of the city walls in Jak II or check out the start-up menu in Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando). Demos for one company's games often appear on the other's releases. Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage contained a demo of Crash Team Racing, for example. Also, Insomniac's Ratchet and Clank series uses a heavily modified version of the game engine used in Naughty Dog's Jak and Daxter games. Because of their friendship, many fans have wondered if the two companies would collaborate on a game. However they have, in the past, publicly stated that they don't have plans for making a game together, although both Jak II and Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando featured billboard cameos of each others heroes (and a scene in Going Commando shows Ratchet playing both his games, both Jak games, and Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus). This is taken one step further in Jak X: Combat Racing and Ratchet: Deadlocked: both feature Ratchet and Jak respectively as unlockable skins.
[edit] Sucker Punch
Insomniac also shares some sort of relationship with Sucker Punch Productions due to Sucker Punch being listed in the credits list of Going Commando, Up Your Arsenal, and Deadlocked. Sucker Punch is known for it's Sly Cooper franchise and now for the PS3 exclusive inFamous . Many suggest that Sucker Punch, Naughty Dog, and Insomniac Games work together on sharing stuff and giving advice on their games.
[edit] Games
- Disruptor - November 20, 1996
- Spyro the Dragon - September 10, 1998
- Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage - November 2, 1999
- Spyro: Year of the Dragon - October 11, 2000
- Ratchet & Clank - November 4, 2002
- Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando - November 11, 2003
- Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal - November 2, 2004
- Ratchet: Deadlocked - October 25, 2005
- Resistance: Fall of Man - November 17, 2006
- Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction - October 30, 2007
- Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty - August 21, 2008
- Resistance 2 - November 4, 2008
- Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time - October 27, 2009 - To Be Released
[edit] People
- Ted Price (President & CEO)
- Alex Hastings (Lead Programmer)
- Brian Hastings (Lead Programmer)
- See also Team members
