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a) Structure 

Naughty dog is a subsidiary company with the parent company being Sony Interactive Entertainment. Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin are the founders of Naughty Dog. The president of Naughty Dog is Evan Wells.  The departments within Naughty Dog are: animation, art, communication, game design, IT/ DevOps, lighting & visual effects and programming. These departments interact with each other with a head or lead member within each department communicating with the other departments.

b) platform technology

Naughty Dog only develops for PlayStation because of their parent company being Sony Interactive Entertainment which owns PlayStation. For this same reason Naughty Dogs games are only playable on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PlayStation and other hand held consoles created by Sony such as the PSP. 

c) Game types

Naughty Dog has specialised in the genre of platform and action adventure games. They are successful because they have a great story, graphics and mechanics matched with semi open explore able areas which is what people enjoy. 

d) games on multi platforms 

Dream Zone and Keef the thief are the two games created by Naughty Dog that are multi platform I think this is because it was in the early days of Naughty Dog releasing titles as well as the fact they did not then have the backing of Sony so they released their games on the platform that were out at the time.

e) regulatory bodies

The company that regulates Naughty Dogs games are PEGI Europe and ERSB america they have the power to not accept a game if they believe that the age rating Naughty Dog is aiming for is too low for example if Naughty Dog said that their game The Last Of Us should have a age rating of 16 PEGI would see the material within the game and not allow the game to be published unless they change the age rating to 18. PEGI gave The Last Of Us a rating of 18. ERSB gave the game a rating of Mature 17+.

f) Development software

Maya, 3D Studio Max, facial animation, motion capture, Digital Spy engine

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