Jens Andersson, lead designer on Starbreeze Studios’ 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 and The Great Circle.
The new Indiana Jones game was unveiled early last year, although details were limited. It was described as featuring an “original story” unconnected to the upcoming Indiana Jones 5, with Bethesda’s Todd Howard executive producing in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games.
Andersson, who also helped create Eurogamer favourite Yoku’s Island Express, announced he’d joined as design director on the “very special” Indiana Jones project in a statement shared on Twitter (thanks VGC), explaining, “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.”
As Andersson points out, though, this isn’t his first tangle with Lucasfilm’s beloved archaeologist; he was previously hired by LucasArts as lead designer on the company’s own Indiana Jones game back in 2009, but that project was cancelled “before [he] even got there”.