Now that the engines are operating for Star Wars: Galactic Racer, it’s been strongly indicated that the builders at Fuse Video games will likely be ensuring that the racing title goes to be additional fueled by DLC and different post-launch assist, with participant enter driving how that’s realized. As well as, characters, settings, autos, and extra might be featured in future Star Wars tales throughout all media.
Speaking to The Game Business (hat tip Bespin Bulletin) about Fuse Games’s recent triumph with Galactic Racer, Fuse Video games founder and co-CEO Matt Webster famous that, whereas the event group already has some clear concepts concerning the future for the AA racing expertise, they’re listening for fan suggestions earlier than making some key selections:
“We’ve obtained concepts of the place this could go and what we wish to do. We actually don’t need this to be launch it and [go] ‘That’s it, we’re executed.’ …We have to see, we have to mirror, we have to watch, we have to hear, we have to hear, we have to take part along with gamers. [Fan input will] inform a number of the concepts [for the future of Galactic Racer], the place we go subsequent and when… We’re going to be speaking about [our plans for the game] within the coming weeks and months, however for essentially the most half, we’ve obtained to go and see how persons are reacting and responding to what we’ve made.”
Webster expanded his ideas by saying that the sport’s launch could be a really informative interval that they’ll use as a baseline for the way forward for the title:
“We’re going to be taught extra within the subsequent 72 hours than we ever can have executed all through the event of this recreation. We’re going to get a couple of hundred thousand hours price of play… There’s going to be issues that you just uncover from a play and a profile that you just haven’t seen earlier than. Trendy video games and trendy players anticipate there to be extensions and enhancements or one thing and we hope to have the ability to do issues like that for this recreation. However the true factor is we have to do this in live performance with the neighborhood and we don’t have all of the solutions. So, we have to see, we have to mirror, we have to watch, we have to hear, we have to hear, we have to take part along with gamers and that can assist inform a number of the concepts that we’ve obtained and it’ll assist decide the place we go subsequent and when.”
Lucasfilm Video games Vice President Douglas Reilly additionally indicated that more Galactic Racer characters, vehicles, and settings could appear in other stories, with ideas that individuals reply effectively to (such as new fan favorite Biddy Blas) may lend themselves to showing elsewhere within the galaxy far, distant within the close to future:
“Star Wars doesn’t simply disappear 3 weeks after launch. We now have a complete ecosystem of potential methods of taking these characters and tales and making use of them to a complete bunch of different expressions that we all know our followers like to see the gaming expertise and the characters they performed with present up somewhere else doing different issues contained in the Star Wars galaxy. It rewards that related fandom in a really distinctive manner that we’re lucky to have. So, we’re all the time on the lookout for like, ‘Okay, what labored and what excited individuals? Let’s lean in and and try to give them extra of what they need.’”
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is now accessible to play on Xbox Collection X/S, PlayStation 5 and PC.
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for so long as he can bear in mind, having seen each film on the large display. When he’s not exhausting at work along with his school research, he retains himself busy by reporting on every kind of Star Wars information for SWNN and common film information on the sister web site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.