@El_Galant @jgreene007 All NaughtyDog had to do was pick up the phone and say, "We would like to use your map for our game. We'll even send you a copy."
The guy is likely a gamer so I'm sure he would have said yes.
@fillup0 Well dur... He probably noticed it in the game because he bought and played it. So there's a good chance if it wasn't a commercial success, he wouldn't have bought it, thus wouldn't have seen it...
@jgreene007 Actually if he didn't complain about it, no one would know. It's not like NaughtyDog put his name in the credits or anything. So that reward you speak of would have been for NaughtyDog alone.
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