From the perspective of its director/co-designer Hal Barwood.
Hal Barwood has had a fascinating career. Not only did he pen the script for Steven Spielberg’s first-ever motion picture film The Sugarland Express and the 1981 dark fantasy film Dragonslayer (along with his writing partner Matthew Robbins), but he has also had a fairly lengthy career at the video game company LucasArts where he was behind the creation of the 1992 point-and-click adventure Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and the 1999 3D action-exploration game Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine.
With MachineGames and Bethesda Softworks set to release their own take on Indiana Jones later this year — in the form of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle for the Xbox Series X|S and Microsoft Windows — we thought it would be a great time to reach out to Barwood to chat about his memories of working on the old Indiana Jones titles. We ended up sitting down and chatting with the designer/writer on a 2-hour-long call, asking a ton of questions about everything from his early inspirations to the obstacles the LucasArts team faced along the way.
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From the perspective of its director/co-designer Hal Barwood.
Hal Barwood has had a fascinating career. Not only did he pen the script for Steven Spielberg’s first-ever motion picture film The Sugarland Express and the 1981 dark fantasy film Dragonslayer (along with his writing partner Matthew Robbins), but he has also had a fairly lengthy career at the video game company LucasArts where he was behind the creation of the 1992 point-and-click adventure Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and the 1999 3D action-exploration game Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine.
With MachineGames and Bethesda Softworks set to release their own take on Indiana Jones later this year — in the form of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle for the Xbox Series X|S and Microsoft Windows — we thought it would be a great time to reach out to Barwood to chat about his memories of working on the old Indiana Jones titles. We ended up sitting down and chatting with the designer/writer on a 2-hour-long call, asking a ton of questions about everything from his early inspirations to the obstacles the LucasArts team faced along the way.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
