1. QUALITY ASSURANCE
Quality assurance then took place which involved Game testing, a subset of game development, is a software
testing process for quality control of video games. The primary function of game testing is the discovery and
documentation of software defects aka bugs. The Quality assurance team would them give feedback to the
production team for further slight changes to the games gameplay, visuals or user interface.
POST-PRODUCTION
MARKETING
The game was first teased before the Spike Video Game Awards on November 29, 2011, with a billboard in
Times Square mentioning "a PlayStation 3 exclusive you won't believe". Initial trailers showed an apocalyptic
event, including riots, epidemic, quarantine, and violence, as well as a clip of the BBC's Planet Earth showing an
ant infected with Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, a dangerous parasitic fungus that usually kills insects such as
ants. On December 9, 2011, players of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception spotted an in-game reference to the
aforementioned trailer with the newspaper headline "scientists are still struggling to understand deadly fungus".
Sony Computer Entertainment officially unveiled the game, a brand new intellectual property from Naughty Dog,
created by a previously unpublicized Naughty Dog development team, at the Spike Video Game Awards 2011. A
gameplay trailer, made up of in-game footage,showed a man and a teenage girl fending off other survivors and
what appeared to be people with unusual fungal growth before running out into a dilapidated city covered in
greenery, reminiscent of the film I Am Legend. Shortly after the unveiling, Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells
posted new details of The Last of Us on the PlayStation Blog.
At E3 2012 was the first publicly released gameplay demo for The Last of Us. It introduced a combat scenario to
the audience, showing firsthand the tools of the trade Joel and Ellie must use to attempt to defend themselves
from a small group of bandits, as well as how the bandits would coordinate and respond based on Joel's current
situation and amount of bullets he had. The first official television spot for the game was aired on the season
finale of AMC’s The Walking Dead on March 31, 2013. On May 31, 2013, a playable demo was released via God
of War: Ascension disc-owners. The demo features the Outskirts level of The Last of Us in which Joel and Ellie,
along with Tess, encounter multiple Infected enemies.