Whereas we haven’t heard from developer Quantic Dream about its Star Wars title – Star Wars Eclipse – for fairly a while now, some idea artwork has popped up that signifies that the sport may nonetheless be nicely below growth. As noticed by Mp1st, the idea artwork offers us a take a look at a few of the characters that may play vital roles within the recreation.
From the portfolio of one of many artists that has beforehand labored on Star Wars Eclipse, there are a complete of 13 photographs. Every picture comes with a filename that signifies that form of character that the artwork was created for. There may be idea artwork for a Gungan character, a Zenezian character, and a Rodian character. There are additionally a couple of items which have merely been titled Smuggler 1 and Smuggler 2. Curiously, two of the idea artwork items have been named after particular characters.
The 2 characters, going by the idea artwork, are Travis and Jotraaaz Kammzzzek. The names, simply falling in keeping with different unusual and alien-sounding names from all through the Star Wars universe, would point out that these two characters will play a extra vital function within the title’s narrative. The others, however, may be one-off NPCs that the participant may get to solely work together with one or two occasions.
It’s price noting that idea artwork for a recreation is often created in very early levels of its growth. Because of this these photographs may additionally be fairly up to date, since video games usually undergo many modifications over the course of their growth.
Quantic Dream has typically continued its silence in relation to progress on the event of Star Wars Eclipse. Nevertheless, again in February, studio CEO and head of publishing Guillaume de Fondaumière talked about that Quantic Dream was unaffected by the studio closures that had been occurring on the time of varied studios below NetEase. For context, NetEase introduced its acquisition of Quantic Dream again in 2022.
“[Quantic president] David Cage and I want to specific our gratitude to the followers and buddies who’ve reached out to us in current days concerning Quantic Dream,” de Fondaumière wrote on the time. “We need to reassure everybody that our studios in Paris and Montreal stay unaffected. We’re persevering with to develop our initiatives at full tempo, with a number of open positions out there in each places.”
Improvement of Star Wars Eclipse has additionally seemingly been a troubled one. Again in August 2024, lead author Adam Williams had introduced his departure from Quantic Dream. In his announcement, he revealed that he can be founding his personal studio.
“After nearly 10 years at Quantic Dream, I’m leaving to discovered a brand new studio – along with a bunch of very gifted designers and builders,” Williams wrote. “We will’t say an excessive amount of simply but. We’re engaged on one thing very progressive, very particular and, for now, very secret. Extra on that quickly.”
Star Wars Eclipse was introduced all the way in which again in 2021. The sport is in growth for PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S.