{"id":20937,"date":"2022-12-01T20:52:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T20:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-darkness-and-chronicles-of-riddick-lead-designer-joins-machinegames-indiana-jones\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T20:52:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T20:52:53","slug":"the-darkness-and-chronicles-of-riddick-lead-designer-joins-machinegames-indiana-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-darkness-and-chronicles-of-riddick-lead-designer-joins-machinegames-indiana-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"The Darkness and Chronicles of Riddick lead designer joins MachineGames&#8217; Indiana Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nJens Andersson, lead designer on Starbreeze Studios&#8217; acclaimed shooters The Darkness and Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, has joined Wolfenstein developer MachineGames to serve as design director on its highly anticipated Indiana Jones project.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe new Indiana Jones game was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/bethesda-announces-indiana-jones-game\">unveiled early last year<\/a>, although details were limited. It was described as featuring an &#8220;original story&#8221; unconnected to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZfVYgWYaHmE\">upcoming Indiana Jones 5<\/a>, with Bethesda&#8217;s Todd Howard executive producing in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAndersson, who also helped create <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/yokus-island-express-review\">Eurogamer favourite Yoku&#8217;s Island Express<\/a>, announced he&#8217;d joined as design director on the &#8220;very special&#8221; Indiana Jones project in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Llerd\/status\/1598355539423002625\">statement shared on Twitter<\/a> (thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/the-darkness-chronicles-of-riddick-director-joins-indiana-jones-team\/\">VGC<\/a>), explaining, &#8220;I&#8217;m so excited about what we are building, and the way we get to do it &#8211; featuring one of [the] most iconic characters ever.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-darkness-and-chronicles-of-riddick-lead-designer-joins-machinegames-indiana-jones\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jens Andersson, lead designer on Starbreeze Studios&#8217; acclaimed shooters The Darkness and Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, has joined Wolfenstein developer MachineGames to serve as design director on its highly anticipated Indiana Jones project. The new Indiana Jones game was unveiled early last year, although details were limited. 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