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Star Wars Eclipse Gets Disappointing Update

By Matthew Schomer

Published Aug 16, 2024

Matthew is a journalist in the news department at TheBestWarGames. He holds a Bachelor's degree in journalism from Kent State University and has been an avid gamer since 1985. Matthew formerly served as a news and features editor, trainer, and video producer at DualShockers, specializing in shortform video guides.

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Summary

Lead writer leaves Star Wars Eclipse for own studio, leaving Quantic Dream to push forward without him.
Little information on Star Wars Eclipse has been released these past few years.
Uncertainty surrounds the impact of the writer's departure on the game's release date and narrative direction.

The upcoming Star Wars Eclipse has apparently lost its lead writer, as he intends to strike out on his own and found a new development studio. While developer Quantic Dream hasn't revealed much about Star Wars Eclipse in the years since its announcement, the studio will now have to press forward without the help of longtime lead writer Adam Williams.

Star Wars Eclipse was first revealed at The Game Awards 2021, piquing the interest of fans of the sci-fi franchise. Set a few hundred years before the events of the original film trilogy in the High Republic Era, the trailer presented at the awards show still featured plenty of iconic Star Wars imagery, including lightsabers, space battles, and a protocol droid.

Precious little new information has been officially released in more than two and a half years since the initial announcement. As spotted by TheGamer, lead writer Williams posted on his LinkedIn account that he was leaving Quantic Dream after nearly a full decade to start his own development studio. In addition to his work on the new Star Wars game, Williams' lead writing duties have also been lauded for his work on the 2018 choices-matter adventure game Detroit: Become Human. While he showed gratitude to both Quantic Dream and LucasFilm, Williams said his new studio already has a project in the works that he described as "very innovative, very special and, for now, very secret."

Star Wars Eclipse Loses its Lead Writer

It's not yet clear what impact Williams' departure will make on Star Wars Eclipse's development, though a change at the head of the writing table partway through the development process has a tendency to slow things down. Early reports from industry insider Tom Henderson in December 2021 had speculated that the game had already been in development for 18 months before its reveal and indicated that Star Wars Eclipse might not even launch until 2027. More-recent speculation has bumped that release window up to 2025, but the lack of any official announcements, screenshots, or teaser trailers from LucasFilm or Quantic Dream has left a lot of fans wondering when they'll get their hands on the game.

Quantic Dream's official website and social media accounts have yet to acknowledge Willliams' departure. Like much of the developer's catalog, the upcoming Star Wars game looks to have a high focus on narrative storytelling. Featuring multiple branching paths, and with the caveat that anyone in the main cast of Star Wars Eclipse can die and the story will still continue without them, the recently vacated lead writer's chair presents a lot of challenges for whoever is chosen to fill the seat.

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Action-Adventure

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Developer(s): Quantic Dream
Publisher(s): Lucasfilm Games
Franchise: Star Wars

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FROM AWARD-WINNING INDEPENDENT STUDIO QUANTIC DREAM AND LUCASFILM GAMES
comes Star Wars Eclipse™, a new action-adventure, multiple-character branching narrative game set in the High Republic era of the iconic Star Wars™ galaxy, now early in development.

Weave a tapestry of interlaced destinies
See the galaxy through the eyes of an ensemble cast of multiple, charismatic playable characters, each with their own morality, personality, motivations, and impact upon each other and the story at large.

Compose an original Star Wars™ story
With all-new characters and environments, you have the power to make choices with consequences thanks to many outcomes in this deeply branching narrative.

Shape your fate in the Outer Rim
In an uncharted section of the galaxy with never-before-seen species and planets to discover, this part of the Outer Rim is rife with opportunity – and political tensions that could alter the fabric of peace. What will you do?

Genre(s): Action-Adventure

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