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 would possibly nonetheless be nicely underneath growth. As noticed by Mp1st, the idea artwork provides us a take a look at a number of the characters which 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’s idea artwork for a Gungan character, a Zenezian character, and a Rodian character. There are additionally just a few 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 position within the title’s narrative. The others, however, is likely to be one-off NPCs that the participant would possibly get to solely work together with one or two occasions.
It’s value noting that idea artwork for a recreation is usually created in very early levels of its growth. Which means that these photographs may also be fairly up to date, since video games typically undergo many adjustments over the course of their growth.
Quantic Dream has typically continued its silence in the case of progress on the event of Star Wars Eclipse. Nonetheless, again in February, studio CEO and head of publishing Guillaume de Fondaumière talked about that Quantic Dream was unaffected by the studio closures that have been happening on the time of varied studios underneath 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 associates 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 obtainable in each places.”
Growth 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 could be founding his personal studio.
“After nearly 10 years at Quantic Dream, I’m leaving to discovered a brand new studio – along with a gaggle of very proficient designers and builders,” Williams wrote. “We will’t say an excessive amount of simply but. We’re engaged on one thing very modern, very particular and, for now, very secret. Extra on that quickly.”
Star Wars Eclipse was introduced all the best way again in 2021. The sport is in growth for PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S.
