Career
Hennig has worked in the video game industry since the late 1980s.[4] Most of her early jobs involved games on the Nintendo Entertainment System, where she was primarily employed as an artist and animator.[5] Her first job was as a freelance artist for Electrocop, an unreleased Atari 7800 game, based on the Atari Lynx launch title.[1] Afterwards she joined Electronic Arts as an animator and artist, doing work on an unreleased title, Bard's Tale 4, and Desert Strike. She later moved to designing and directing video games.[6]
Two years after being hired at Electronic Arts, Hennig worked as an artist on Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City.[4] However, when the lead designer quit, Hennig landed the job.[1] In the late 1990s, she moved to Crystal Dynamics, where she assisted Silicon Knights in the development of Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain. Later, she acted as the director, producer, and writer for Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver.[7][8] She also directed and wrote Soul Reaver 2 and Legacy of Kain: Defiance.[9]
Hennig departed Crystal Dynamics to act as the creative director for Naughty Dog.[10] She contributed to the Jak and Daxter series before working as the game director for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune,[11] and as head writer and creative director for the Uncharted series. With Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Hennig led the 150-person team who created the game, as well as acting as writer.[1] After directing and writing for Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and beginning work on Uncharted 4: A Thief's End for the PlayStation 4, Hennig left Naughty Dog in 2014.[12]
In April 2014, Hennig joined Visceral Games with Todd Stashwick to work on Project Ragtag, a Star Wars game.[13] It was reported in October 2017, that EA was shutting down Visceral Games and that their Star Wars project was delayed and moved to another studio to allow for "significant change". A representative of EA told Polygon that EA are "in discussions with Amy about her next move".[14] Hennig announced the following June that she had left EA in January and started a small studio to explore options involving virtual reality games.[15]
In November 2019, Hennig announced she had joined Skydance Media to start a new division there, Skydance New Media, for "new story-focused experiences [that] will employ state-of-the-art computer graphics to provide the visual fidelity of television and film, but with an active, lean-in experience that puts the audience in the driver's seat".[16] Stashwick said in May 2021 that he was working with Hennig on an action-adventure game;[17] in September, this was revealed to be Forspoken. Hennig and Stashwick are part of the writing team alongside Gary Whitta and Allison Rymer.[18]
In October 2021, Skydance New Media later announced that it was working with Marvel Entertainment to produce a new action-adventure game that will take place in the Marvel Universe.[19][20] In September 2022, it was revealed that it was an untitled Captain America and Black Panther game.[21] In March 2024, the game's name was revealed as Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra.
In April 2022, Skydance New Media and Lucasfilm Games announced they are working on a narrative-driven, action-adventure game "featuring an original story in the Star Wars galaxy", with Hennig at the helm.[22]
