Neil Druckmann Salary & Married Life Details With Wife Maya, And Their Daughter
Neil Druckmann is an Israeli-American programmer, video game designer, writer, creative director, and Naughty Dog vice president. He is best known for his work with the video game developer Naughty Dog. He has directed video games like Uncharted: Eye of Indra (2009), The Last of Us (2013), The Last of Us: Left Behind (2014), Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (2016), What Remains of Edith Finch (2017), (2017), and The Last of Us: Part II (2020).
Neil earned widespread acclaim for his work on The Last of Us receiving BAFTA, DICE, and Writers Guild of America awards as the game's writer and creative director.
What Is The Salary Of Neil Druckmann? His Awards On Video Game Series
Payscale reports the average salary for 'Naughty Dog' employees is $72k per year. As a VP of Naughty Dog, a team that produces video games, Neil Druckmann might have earned some hefty payrolls on his name.
Neil joined Naughty Dog as a programming intern and has worked on localization tools and gameplay programming on Jak 3 in 2004. He programmed the menu screens on Jak X: Combat Racing (2005), which he considered one of his career's most difficult tasks. He designed the video games like Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (2007), Uncharted 2: Among Thieves(2009), and Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier in 2009.
He directed video games like Uncharted: Eye of Indra (2009), The Last of Us (2013), The Last of Us: Left Behind (2014), Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (2016), What Remains of Edith Finch (2017), Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (2017), The Last of Us: Part II (2020) and produced The Last of Us (2021).
He worked on his self projects like Grounded: Making the Last of Us, a video documentary in 2013, Level Up VG, a TV series in 2013, How Video Games Changed the World, a TV movie documentary in 2013, Naughty Dog: 30 Years, a video documentary in 2014, The Game Awards 2014, a TV special in 2014, From Dreams: The Making of the Last of Us - Left Behind, a video documentary in 2014.
The 42 years old programmer wrote stories of various video game stories and TV movies like Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (2007), Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009), Uncharted: Eye of Indra (2009), The Last of Us (2013), The Last of Us: Left Behind (2014), and The Last of Us: Part II in 2020.
Neil Druckmann holding one of his treasured awards (©: alchetron.com)
Due to his works on video games, Neil won Game Developers Choice Awards as the best writer for the best video game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves in 2010. He won the NAVGTR Award in 2014 and 2017, respectively, for The Last of Us (2013) and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (2016).
He also won the WGA Award in 2014 and 2015. He won The Game Award for The Last of Us: Part II in 2016 and 2020 as the best narrator and game of the year. He was nominated for the VES Award in 2021.
Neil Druckmann Married Life, & Daughter
Neil Druckmann is married to Maya Druckmann. They started dating while Neil was an undergraduate.
The duo had a daughter during the development of The Last of Us. He considered his daughter as a huge inspiration to him while writing games. The birth of his daughter reinforced his ideas about family.
He loves to play video games with his daughter, citing Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020) and the Pokémon series.
He has been residing in Los Angeles, California, with his wife Maya and his daughter.
Who Is Neil Druckmann?
Israeli-American programmer Neil Druckmann was born on 5 December 1978 in Israel. Neil was raised in Israel with his brother and parents until the age of 10, then moved to America.
He has an older brother, Emanuel, who showed Neil comic books, video games, and movies at a young age.
Neil attended middle school and high school in Miami, Florida, then studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and later attended the University of Florida to study criminology.
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