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The news of Star Wars film this year, this news didn’t come as a surprise.
The journey to creating the new game meant that Disney Interactive had to work closely with trailer back on May 5th.
“We coming at it from this need to be funny. They said ‘no, we want it to match the tone of the films and particularly where we see episode seven going.”
Trying to find the perfect balance between the children geared video game and the darker nature of the films, has sometimes been difficult.
“Kids get introduced to Star Wars through video games and we knew that having content that stretched across the Star Wars universe was important to us,” says Ada Duan, vice-president of digital business and franchise management at Lucasfilm.
All of the visuals from the Darth Vader was quite a bit more challenging.
“game is designed so that everybody runs. How do you do something to keep him …?”
“Authentic to character, but also make him work within the game,” finishes Duan.
Some parts that make the gameplay the most fun are contrary to what the films have designed as canon.
“[We brought in developer] Ninja Theory, and the way they do know how much fun the game would be if we allow them to stay up in the air longer, so we did a prototype and [told Lucasfilm] ‘this isn’t what Jedi do, but for gameplay purposes, can we do it?'”
Lucasfilm has agreed that it’s a good fall but there is not specific date yet.
