Force Unleashed nearly didn't make it
Blackman admits the project was overly ambitious
The Force Unleashed producer Haden Blackman has been talking about the series history on his departure form LucasArts.
Blackman spoke of the torrid time they had building the game and what a relief it was when it finally released.
Blackman told Develop Online: "It was the culmination of everything. We started The Force Unleashed with ten people, so we built a brand new team, the studio was going through a lot of changes and we were building a brand new studio, a brand new engine, a brand new toolset, three different integrated technologies - one which we never worked with before and two others that hadn't shipped before."
He concluded: "I think LucasArts were relieved that we finished the game and survived. Just the fact that we got the game done at all... just a huge success for us. That phrase that a poem is never finished, only abandoned, I think is true to videogames as well."
