The formerDarknessdesigner looks to make an Indy project
Game developer Jens Andersson, who’s worked on projects likeThe DarknessandChronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, is taking up a new role at MachineGames. Andersson is joining the team to work on its upcomingIndiana Jonesgame.
In a statementshared on Twitterand spotted byVGC, Andersson confirms he’s joining the project as the Design Director onIndiana Jones. Andersson says that in 2009 he accepted an offer to lead design on anIndiana Jonesproject, but the game was cancelled before he got there.
“Now, I get a chance to do what I [originally] hoped to, but this time I get to do it with some of my oldest and best friends,” said Andersson. “Joining MarchineGames is like coming home—amazing people I worked with duringRiddickandDarkness, but also teeming with new ones, whose talent daily [blows] me away.”
AlongsideRiddickandThe Darkness, Andersson has also worked onColors Liveand the surprisingly funMetroid-meets-pinball gameYoku’s Island Express.
“I’m so excited about what we are building, and the way [we] get to do it—featuring one of the most iconic characters ever, in collaboration with my friends at Lucasfilm, published by one of the biggest publishers in the world, and doing it at an amazing studio like MachineGames,” said Andersson. “This will be something special.”
A new adventure for Indiana Jones
The newIndiana Jonesprojectwas revealed to the public in 2021, and it’s been fairly quiet since. MachineGames, ofWolfensteinfame, is developing the new take on Indy. Presumably, there are top men working on it. Top. Men.
It does seem like the newIndiana Jonesisa ways off though. With a new design director on board, we’ll hopefully start to see more of what MachineGames is putting together.
