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6 unusual facts about LucasArts


Douglass C. Perry

He also worked behind the scenes with publishers and developers analyzing and critiquing games in progress including Electronic Arts, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Sega, Take-Two Interactive, LucasArts, Ubisoft, Criterion Games, Volition, Inc., and Eidos Interactive.

Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix

The comic was based on a canceled LucasArts video game, a sequel to Fate of Atlantis (which was also the first Dark Horse Indiana Jones comic).

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The World War II trilogy was created by a team led by Lawrence Holland, a game designer who later founded Totally Games.

In 1988, Battlehawks 1942 launched a trilogy of World War II air combat simulations, giving the player a chance to fly as an American or Japanese pilot in the Pacific Theater.

iMUSE was developed in the early 1990s by composers Michael Land and Peter McConnell while working at LucasArts.

The Gone Jackals

The band collaborated with Peter McConnell of LucasArts to produce the soundtrack to the biker-themed adventure game Full Throttle; tracks from Bone to Pick were specifically adapted for this purpose.


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A-wing

The A-wing is also flyable in Battlefront II and the Rogue Squadron series, and it appears in other LucasArts Star Wars titles such as Empire at War.

EFMI

Escape from Monkey Island, a computer adventure game developed and released by LucasArts in 2000

Garry M. Gaber

He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University and worked in the engineering field before being hired by LucasArts in 1994.

IMUSE

iMUSE was developed out of Michael Land's frustration for the audio system used by LucasArts while composing The Secret of Monkey Island.

Joseph Gatt

Gatt voices Lord Scourge in the LucasArts/Bioware game Star Wars: The Old Republic and several characters on the game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Keltech

After an interview on the official starwars.com website, he received a Christmas card from LucasArts signed by George Lucas.

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Ron Gilbert, a computer game designer, best known for his work on several LucasArts adventure games

Michael Stemmle

After 14 years at LucasArts, he left following the 2004 collapse of Sam & Max Freelance Police and after a period of freelancing, joined Perpetual Entertainment, working as Story Lead for Star Trek Online.

Ngmoco

The "Plus+ Publishing group" is headed up by former Sega of America and LucasArts executive Simon Jeffery.

Roy Conrad

He has also appeared in another LucasArts game, Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire, as the rebel pilot Ace Merrick.

Star Wars: Dark Forces

The Dark Forces soundtrack uses the iMUSE system to create interactive music using the Star Wars soundtrack composed by John Williams.

Starkiller

Starkiller's expressions are based on Witwer's, which Blackman described as a "a new approach for LucasArts", noting that it "affected the way we handled casting for The Force Unleashed" and comparing it to how people see Bill Nighy as Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

The Gone Jackals

Its songs were chosen by Peter McConnell, music director of the LucasArts team, to be featured as the soundtrack of the new video game they were working on, Full Throttle.

The Kristal

The game features a number of different classic game genres merged: fighting, space flight/combat, and (to a limited extent) LucasArts-style point-and-click adventuring.

ZenGems

Former LucasArts game designer Hal Barwood known for several Star Wars and Indiana Jones titles of the early to mid 1990's designed several of the levels of ZenGems.


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