Ett av höstens överlägset hetaste spel är utan tvekan Star Wars Battlefront. Studion bakom liret är, som du garanterat redan vet, svenska Dice. Men det hade kunnat se annorlunda ut på den... fronten. I det senaste numret av Official Xbox Magazine säger Dice-höjdaren Patrick Bach att man nästan tackade nej till att utveckla spelet:
"Disney came to EA looking for a partner to make games and suggested, 'Maybe DICE should make a Battlefront game'. On our side, we had this opportunity but were fully booked with other work and thought, 'Argh, we can't do that!' But then the heart kicks in, says 'we will figure it out,' and we figured it out. Because you can't say no to a project like that."
Då är ju frågan hur man lyckades fixa allt kring schemakrockar och tidsbrist? Patrick Bach fortsätter:
"You piece it together based on competence, passion, availability - although that's easier to fix. You need the right people in the right place to do the right 'thing'. Even though you don't know what that is yet, you still have an idea of the concept. From that you say, "okay, we need this person or that person." Then, of course, you have to hire a lot of people; you swap people around. Some people just won't be interested; other people have been building Battlefield games for ten years and want to try something else. And other people say, 'I would love to work on Star Wars, but... I don't work for [DICE].' So it's a mix of everything, a very organic process."
Så gick det alltså till när Dice fick jobbet. Star Wars Battlefront anländer 11 november och vi på Gamereactor längtar efter att sätta våra fötter på planeten Hoth och laserskjuta Darth Vader.
