Lucasarts dev boss promises look at new Star Wars and and Indiana Jones titles

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Lucasarts project lead Chris Williams has revealed the scale of the company's next gen ambitions in his keynote address to the inaugural London Game Career Fair, currently under way at the Café Royal on Regent Street.

"We have 70-80 people working on next gen teams," Williams, who is currently in charge of the company's Indiana Jones project, said to a packed audience.

Williams will show the next gen versions of Indiana Jones and a new Star Wars game at his GDC keynote in London tomorrow.

"We can do real material physics now and that technology's really exciting," he said as a teaser of what's going to be on offer Wednesday morning.

Williams went on to give advice on software packages to become familiar with for those aspiring to enter the games industry professionally, specifically into project management, and offered some frank pointers on what larger publishers are looking for in terms of new talent.

"It really is working with people and sticking to schedules," he said. "Games are notoriously late, and that's something we want to correct."

[Hawq]

Something from the expanded universe would be ideal for future Star Wars games I reckon, theres just so much they could do as theres over 30 years worth of story so far

[Cap'n 1time]

Something from the expanded universe would be ideal for future Star Wars games I reckon, theres just so much they could do as theres over 30 years worth of story so far

The idea of KotOR 3 comes to mind. Also, Remember that Rouge Squadron game for N64? I would love to see a game with the quallity of that title for the 360, but perhapes with CoOp multi player. Thoes FPS games are good, but just dont give you the right feel when your blasting stuff up in the X-Wing.