Watching the 46 seconds of footage from HBO's upcoming The Last of Us elicited the same feeling Shaun Escayg got when he first walked into gaming studio Naughty Dog in 2012.

Escayg was being recruited by the developers who brought us Uncharted and now wanted to make a post-apocalyptic sci-fi adventure, about a man and a young girl thrust together by circumstance as they trek across what's left of a pandemic-ravaged America. Escayg found himself in the same room as Bruce Straley, the game director behind this new project, and Neil Druckmann, the creative director. He was immediately drawn into the story.