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Hey Battlefrontians, some interesting tidbits for you and a great find by one of our forum members RogueStarkiller.
From RogueStarkiller:
This week Spark is in San Francisco for the GDC(Game Developer’s Conference). Last night Spark went out to dinner with their publisher and tweeted this:
For those that may not know, Twitter geotags you to a general area where your tweet came from as seen in the photo above. Their tweet came from an area of San Francisco called Cow Hollow. Now, this doesn’t pinpoint a restaurant or a specific place, but it does put them in a small geographic area.
What’s interesting is what is located within 3 minutes driving distance from the heart of Cow Hollow:
That’s right, LucasFilm. LucasArts is also on this campus.
So I thought, well, maybe their publisher just decided to have dinner with them and they coincidentally went there…except that it’s on the other side of town from the GDC and several other locations Spark mentioned they had been.
Spark tweeted:
Spark Unlimited @sparkunlimited
The W is the hotel bar to meet up and drink up. It is rough sometimes doing business. 
Spark Unlimited @sparkunlimited
Dinner is over. Heading to the Infusion Lounge now.
The Infusion Lounge, The W Hotel, and the Moscone Convention Center(where GDC is being held) are all within 2 blocks of each other and a 20 minute drive away from LucasArts and where they had dinner. This of course is not definitive proof that Spark Unlimited had dinner with LucasArts. However, when companies attend out of town conventions, they tend to stay very close to the hotel or the convention location and away from areas that may only be familiar to someone that might live and work in the city.
***UPDATE***:
So from the info above, Spark went to dinner with their publisher(whomever it may be) from the restaurant within 3 mins. driving distance of LucasArts to the Infusion Lounge across town after dinner.
Guess what?
LucasArts hosted their GDC party at the Infusion Lounge that night.
Hats off to RogueStarKiller for some great work. While this doesn’t necessarly prove that Spark was having some great chow with the folks from LucasArts, it does provide some great room for speculation!
Lets hear some thoughts!
Another huge thanks to RogueStarkiller!!
Spark Unlimited has Dinner with their Publisher... LucasArts??,
This is, by far, the best piece of evidence so far that Spark is working with LA. That’s true even when you realize that we don’t really have evidence of that, we just assume it because we believe Spark is making BF3. Other than this, all we have is a similar description of the game and a few Star Wars references. Really, really good find Rogue! I also noticed the geotag thing, but wasn’t smart enough to actually look it up.
Now THIS is extremely concrete compared to everything else. We can now safely assume that they are making a Star Wars game (YAY!).
Now we only have to ask:
Jedi Knight or Battlefront 3
And: Will it be any good?
Personally, if it’s a well-made game, and has graphics options that I can lower to make it work on my computer, I am a happy camper no matter what game it is
Yes, I am hoping the computer version will have free internet play like the previous two. As for the Jedi Knight part, I see no evidence that it would be that over Battlefront 3. I never played it, but I realize that it is similar in gameplay to SWBF3. The only thing is: Isn’t it a sort of RPG-Shooter? Or am I misunderstanding? Also, Spark said that if the publisher were revealed the game would be revealed. Since we are 95% sure that it is LA, what is the most likely game they are making? They themselves said that it would be obvious. I haven’t even considered Jedi Knight to be a possibility because it just doesn’t fit the games that Spark has made previously, at least compared to Battlefront.
True-especially about spark’s previous games. The only thing that points to Jedi Knight is that the description is “3rd Person Action-Adventure”, not “Third-Person Shooter”. While there are guns in JK, it is more focused on lightsaber combat and (to some extent) force abilities.
But if they said it was LA, EVERYONE would assume BF3
@Kal Skirata
Actually, if you go to the description of the Senior Designer for the unannounced game on Spark’s website, you’ll see it says “, AI scripting, game balancing, and tuning for a third-person action shooter on next generation consoles.”
“THIRD-PERSON ACTION SHOOTER”
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Also, I just saw one of SU’s most recent tweets in regards to the title of the game:
@sparkunlimited Can you give us one word of your choice from the current title of your first game?
Spark Unlimited
@JarGargon I know poeple are dying for something from the title. I will say it has more than one letter and probably has an “E” in it.
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I’m pretty sure there is an “E” in BattleEfront
Actually the description is for both Action/Adventure and Shooter. Check the job listings over at Spark:
“Spark is looking for a senior designer for a 3rd Person Action/Adventure sequel in a high-profile science fiction franchise currently in development for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC markets. The Senior Designer will be responsible for collaborating on game design systems, designing/developing levels, and implementing gameplay scenarios including: level construction, basic lighting, event scripting, AI scripting, game balancing, and tuning for a third-person action shooter on next generation consoles.”
Actually, I don’t know if any1 would agree with me on this but… I’d really like to see a game that combines elements of both JK and SWBF!
“Star Wars Jedi Battlefront : Dark Forces 3″! XD
Singleplayer: Epic story and lots of lightsaberfights – typical for jedi knight games, able to drive vehicles and flying in space just like battlefront and we would see the return of Kyle Katarn!
Multiplayer and Instant Action: The classic Battlefront gameplay, live the battles anyway you want it!
To me, that would be pretty interesting! ^^
It does mention a third-person shooter, and I like how people are getting so excited over my tweets, but…. Sorry to burst your bubble, but everyone who says Spark’s tweet that looked like code is wrong. Google those letters, and you will see that they are the order of frequency of those letters in the English language. E being the first, that also means that almost every title would have one, whether Battlefront had one or not, because they are adding subtitles to their game title. Jedi Knight just seems not to fit somehow, so if it is definitely LA we almost have to assume it is Battlefront. The “almost” is the only thing that makes us keep asking Spark questions.
Also, Spark was mentioning reveal dates of other games and that a special date could be in a hole between them. They were all in late May…..coughcoughcough MAY THE FOURTH be with you coughcough…
All we need to do now is wait for the reveal date to be revealed!
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Solid stuff….
Where there’s smoke, there’s (plasma) fire…
Spark Unlimited via twitter- sparkunlimited @SDevonish91 “some say I have a dark side to me.” Its clear they’re toying with us!
I think this gets as close to confirming their partnership as possible. I still think we’ll have to wait until E3 to get the announcement, at least until the Kinect game has been on shelves for a week and LA realizes they don’t have any sales from it.
I also noticed SU tweeted about Epic guiding them through the engine, and we all know Epic signed with LA.
They also tweeted: Just saw a demo that will “melt you face off.” (all under NDA)He later confirmed this was another company’s demo, but the “melt your face off” part bothered me since it was in quotes. Then I thought maybe he’s alluding to Anakin on Mustafar?!?!? Let’s keep our hopes up until we get reason otherwise!
I’m pretty sure the demo he was talking about is the Unreal Engine 4 demo that Epic showed off in private… the melt your face off was probably from the demo haha but we can always hope for some anikin face melting action!
It seems pretty solid. I’m going to go ahead and assume that they’re making BF3, now it’s just a question of when they’re going to announce it. Here’s looking at E3. And RoughStarkiller, I tip my cap to you sir!
This really does give hope. My brother and I came up with lots of ideas of things we wanted to see in SWBF3 and I wanted to send it in. Where can I send it? I was thinking since they will be on this generation of consoles they can make DLC and add a lot of content. I am so excited for this game. Great sleuthing work. Nothing concrete but this is really great evidence and gives hope to all of us. Looking forward to an announcement.
I find this hilarious! Either this is a fairly large coincidence, like a serial killer seen at a crime scene, or this is a guarantee that they are working with LA.
pretty solid evidence, still nothing official but it brings more hope
Well, this doesn’t conclusively prove anything, but it does give a little hope.
Maybe SU is hoping to get LA to let them do BF3 for their next project.