LucasArts Memory

LucasArts Memory

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Unofficial account. From artworks to fun facts: 4 decades of LucasArts & Star Wars games.

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Current Lucasfilm Games VP Douglas Reilly: "The goal has been to find the best partner who makes that experience come alive inside the galaxy far, far away. And it doesn’t have to always be triple-A, sometimes it can be double-A, and it’s really about the experience that..."

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"...we’re delivering and the fantasy we’re fulfilling." "We’ve tried to be more flexible about who we’re willing to take pitches from. Good ideas can come from a lot of different places. You don’t have to necessarily be a Top Five publisher to make a great Star Wars game." Of course.

thegamebusiness.comFixing Call of Duty: Inside Activision’s Modern Warfare 4 comeback planPlus, Lucasfilm Games targets independent studios for future Star Wars games
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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Bioware/LucasArts, 2003): The Ebon Hawk, art by John Gallager (I think this illustration was done after the game, but John was the concept art lead)

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I didn't know that EA was going to shut down Bioware just a few hours after this image was posted, but it makes me so sad. Even though Bioware was recently just a small team, the studio's legacy—with or without LucasArts—is immortal.

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Knights of the Old Republic (Bioware/LucasArts, 2003)

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Star Wars: Battlefront II (Pandemic Studios/LucasArts) was released 21 years ago. Excluding the handheld episodes, it would then take ten years for the series to return, under the direction of DICE/EA.

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Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike was released 23 years ago today on GameCube. It was the last game created by Factor 5 for LucasArts (if we don't count the unreleased projects). I'm still waiting for a PC port. 😅

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Can your droid cut it? Star Wars: DroidWorks (Lucas Learning) was released 28 years ago. "A combination of construction set and adventure game that enables you to learn and apply scientific principles. You must design and build droids with unique attributes to complete a series of missions."

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Today is the actual anniversary. 🤭 So happy anniversary to the very last building/management game released by LucasArts.

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Thrillville: Off the Rails (Frontier Developments/LucasArts) was released 19 years ago today. Frontier had developed RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 three years earlier—and would release Planet Coaster nine years later.

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Thrillville: Off the Rails (Frontier Developments/LucasArts) was released 19 years ago today. Frontier had developed RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 three years earlier—and would release Planet Coaster nine years later.

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Thrillville: Off the Rails (Frontier Developments/LucasArts) was released 19 years ago today. Frontier had developed RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 three years earlier—and would release Planet Coaster nine years later.

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[Thread] Super Bombad Racing and Peter McConnell's Excellent Reinterpretations of the Star Wars Soundtrack People generally missed out the only Star Wars kart racing game, developed by the team at Lucas Learning. And for good reason: the game was released only on the PlayStation 2 in...🔽

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"We talked about what “super-deformed Star Wars music” would sound like, and that is what he delivered. Each track, the main menu, and even the credits have a uniquely composed piece of music based on music from the SW films." That's it, I just wanted to highlight the quality of Peter's work. 🤗

mixnmojo.comBombad Racing Interview: Page Two | The International House of MojoA great interview with Michael McCormick, Project leader for Super Bombad Racing
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[Thread] Super Bombad Racing and Peter McConnell's Excellent Reinterpretations of the Star Wars Soundtrack People generally missed out the only Star Wars kart racing game, developed by the team at Lucas Learning. And for good reason: the game was released only on the PlayStation 2 in...🔽

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[Thread] Super Bombad Racing and Peter McConnell's Excellent Reinterpretations of the Star Wars Soundtrack People generally missed out the only Star Wars kart racing game, developed by the team at Lucas Learning. And for good reason: the game was released only on the PlayStation 2 in...🔽

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[Thread] Super Bombad Racing and Peter McConnell's Excellent Reinterpretations of the Star Wars Soundtrack People generally missed out the only Star Wars kart racing game, developed by the team at Lucas Learning. And for good reason: the game was released only on the PlayStation 2 in...🔽

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...2001, with other versions being canceled due to poor reviews and sales. Lucas Learning was a spin-off to LucasArts dedicated to educational technology, even though they shared some people and services (accounting, etc.). SBR was their first first entertainment-only title, and their last.

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The game wasn’t brilliant but was still entertaining, with its unapologetically silly charm and its quirky characters and ships. Peter McConnell embraced this approach when he created the awesome soundtrack. In the 1990s, McConnell composed many soundtracks for LucasArts, including...🔽

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Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures (Factor 5/LucasArts/JVC) was released 32 years ago today on Super Nintendo. The beginnings of a collaboration that would lead Factor 5 to co-create the Rogue Squadron trilogy for LucasArts a few years later.

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Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures (Factor 5/LucasArts/JVC) was released 32 years ago today on Super Nintendo. The beginnings of a collaboration that would lead Factor 5 to co-create the Rogue Squadron trilogy for LucasArts a few years later.

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This thread is now like a Star Wars: Jedi Knight TV series.

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Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (LucasArts) was released 29 years ago! The second and final Star Wars game with FMV sequences left me with some very fond memories.

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This thread is now like a Star Wars: Jedi Knight TV series.

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Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (LucasArts) was released 29 years ago! The second and final Star Wars game with FMV sequences left me with some very fond memories.