Having proved to be a reliable money-spinner on consoles, the LEGO Star Wars game brand is venturing online with a new free-to-play episodic title on LEGO's Star Wars portal.
The game, which is entitled LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2, is playable in a browser (though it does require the installation of Unity 3D) and will be familiar to anyone who has played the previous console outings.
"It was a great pleasure to work with our friends at the LEGO Group one more time," Pablo Mayer, game producer at developer Three Melons, stated.
LEGO Systems and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has announced a worldwide license agreement for TT Games Publishing to continue developing the highly successful LEGO based videogames across multiple platforms. Operating as part of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, a division of WBHEG, TT Games is the publisher and developer behind the award-winning hit LEGO videogame franchises including, LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Batman: The Videogame and LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, which have sold close to 50 million units worldwide.
As much as I like this series, they never seem to change, it's just a new skin. It's quite annoying, really. I'd like Travellers Tales to have a new IP they create inhouse, like Haven on PS2, only this time better art design, because the game itself was great.
Very talented platform game studio, it's kind of a shame to keep them tied down.
it is a shame they are making basically the same game over and over, but hey I need something for me and my 5 year old son to play together and nothing is better than the lego games. I don't care who makes em but I know if I want to share my hobby with my son Lego games, QUALITY lego games would need to be in constant rotation.
Building on the success of LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2D2 and BIONICLE: Glatorian Arena, Unity Technologies announced today a new three-year deal with the LEGO Group, in which the company will standardize on Unity authored content for 3D contents on www.LEGO.com.
Unity has often been touted as the most powerful game engine this side of a million dollars. And while it's the leader in middleware for the iPhone and a superb development platform for stand alone PC and Mac games and for consoles like Nintendo's Wii, it has been receiving a lot of attention for its web player. The plug-in has a smaller download size than Flash and, at the time of writing, has already been installed on more than 15 million computers.
A major attraction to using Unity is the ability to author console-quality 2D and 3D games for the Web. Unity's attractive price point was a major factor in seeing early adoption by indie developers, who have been prolific, but more recently Unity has seen an increase in adoption for use with major brands by major development studios.
