# Lucasfilm Games is back **URL:** \ **Category:** Adventure/Lucasfilm Games\ **Created:** [January 11, 2021, 8:43pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678 "2021-01-11T20:43:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Festarossa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/festarossa/32/15_2.png) [@Festarossa](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Festarossa)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 8:43pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/1 "2021-01-11T20:43:44Z")
Ok, so Lucasfilm Games is back, but it seems to be focused only on Star Wars. Which is no a surprise really. > **[Games | Lucasfilm Ltd.](https://www.lucasfilm.com/what-we-do/games/)** > > Learn more about our award-winning interactive entertainment across multiple genres and platforms. > **[Star Wars Games](https://www.facebook.com/LucasfilmGames/)** > > Star Wars Games. 274,734 likes · 6,559 talking about this. Your official home for all Lucasfilm games on Facebook. > **[Lucasfilm Games Begins a New Era | StarWars.com](https://www.starwars.com/news/lucasfilm-games)** > > New social channels, a sizzle reel, and more herald the bright future of Lucasfilm Games. ---
**Author:** ![ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/zakphoenixmckracken/32/41_2.png) [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/2 "2021-01-11T22:09:06Z")
The interesting fact is that the name “Lucasfilm” has reborn. ---
**Author:** ![LasseS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LasseS](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/LasseS)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/3 "2021-01-12T00:03:20Z")
Yeah, seems to be mostly just like a publishing/licensing label for Star Wars games developed by outside developers. Hate to be so negative but I highly doubt Disney will have anything to do with our beloved Lucasfilm/Lucasarts adventure properties either as they’re just not mainstream enough and I doubt the new Lucasfilm Games has any interest in being a publisher of interesting indie/niche titles… Maybe some half assed Indiana Jones action game if we’re lucky. Can’t lie tho, that name makes nostalgic as hell. ---
**Author:** ![LogicDeLuxe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/logicdeluxe/32/15335_2.png) [@LogicDeLuxe](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/LogicDeLuxe)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 3:23am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/4 "2021-01-12T03:23:10Z")
I guess, they mainly used that name and logo just now in order to prevent them from expiring, which would happen in many countries when no longer in use. Many firms issue retro editions with their old logos or names once in a while for this exact reason. It’s commonplace on food brands and detergent brands and probably many others too. ---
**Author:** ![Guga](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/guga/32/14476_2.png) [@Guga](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Guga)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 5:58am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/5 "2021-01-12T05:58:00Z")
> [@Festarossa](#): > > focused only on Star Wars That’s what they want you to believe… ---
**Author:** ![Kuma](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/kuma/32/105_2.png) [@Kuma](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Kuma)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/6 "2021-01-12T17:00:07Z")
> [@Festarossa](#): > > Ok, so Lucasfilm Games is back, but it seems to be focused only on Star Wars. So the exact opposite of what Lucasfilm Games was doing back in the day, when Star Wars was off-limits, and the developers had to come up with new, original IPs. ---
**Author:** ![Festarossa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/festarossa/32/15_2.png) [@Festarossa](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Festarossa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/7 "2021-01-12T17:06:24Z")
Bethesda will make a Indiana Jones game for Lucasfilm Games. > ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/8 "2021-01-12T17:08:35Z")
> [@Kuma](#): > > and the developers had to come up with new, original IPs. Wasn’t “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back” for the NES developed by Lucasfilm Games (1991 or so)… 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Kuma](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/kuma/32/105_2.png) [@Kuma](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Kuma)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/9 "2021-01-12T18:06:05Z")
Hm, Wikipedia lists Lucasfilm Games + another studio, so it might be just a license title? ---
**Author:** ![Festarossa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/festarossa/32/15_2.png) [@Festarossa](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Festarossa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/10 "2021-01-12T18:23:30Z")
The first LucasArts in-house Star Wars title was X-Wing, in 1993. > **[LucasArts](https://lucasfilm.fandom.com/wiki/LucasArts#First_Star_Wars_games)** > > LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC1 was an American video game developer and publisher based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1982 by George Lucas as the video game development group of his film company, Lucasfilm. The company was... ---
**Author:** ![Festarossa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/festarossa/32/15_2.png) [@Festarossa](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Festarossa)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/11 "2021-01-13T16:46:12Z")
Ubisoft’s Massive Entertainment will make a Star Wars game for Lucasfilm Games. Both MachineGames (Indy) and Massive Entertainment (SW) are Swedish companies 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![piratepants](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piratepants/32/7463_2.png) [@piratepants](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/piratepants)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/12 "2021-01-15T12:43:40Z")
To be fair, it already said on Lucas film games’ Twitter bio that they’d bring games from the Star Wars galaxies and beyond. That’s where Indy and stuff doesn’t sound surprising. No I’m just waiting for the XXXXX island announcement. ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thimbleweedpark/original/2X/d/d5f4f66973eea2424fd174283c14c8de1120c8d8.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/13 "2021-01-15T15:18:50Z")
> [@piratepants](#): > > That’s where Indy and stuff doesn’t sound surprising. Maybe they will revoke LucasArts some day for some no-movie-based games. > [@piratepants](#): > > waiting for the XXXXX island Sounds salacious… ---
**Author:** ![BigRedButton](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/bigredbutton/32/212_2.png) [@BigRedButton](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/BigRedButton)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/14 "2021-01-19T18:52:47Z")
My guess is that they are just going to print the Lucasfilm Games logo on the game cases instead of LucasArts - for whatever reason they would do that. Maybe they just think that Lucasfilm Games reminds the people more of Lucasfilm and would be more suitable for games that are based on the LFL movies. It’s just the brand. It’s not the games studio which there was 30 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Festarossa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/festarossa/32/15_2.png) [@Festarossa](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Festarossa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/15 "2021-01-19T19:55:09Z")
It’s just aligning the brands. Lucasfilm Ltd’s Games (licensing) subsidiary should have a similar name and logo. LucasArts was a mess regarding the branding. Going one way, then deciding something else, leaving one company with a residue from a confusing branding. ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 7:59pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/16 "2022-04-12T19:59:00Z")
> [@Festarossa](#): > > Ok, so Lucasfilm Games is back, but it seems to be focused only on Star Wars. > [@LasseS](#): > > I highly doubt Disney will have anything to do with our beloved Lucasfilm/Lucasarts adventure properties either as they’re just not mainstream enough > [@LogicDeLuxe](#): > > they mainly used that name and logo just now in order to prevent them from expiring Feels good to be wrong, right? > [@Kuma](#): > > So the exact opposite of what Lucasfilm Games was doing back in the day, when Star Wars was off-limits, and the developers had to come up with new, original IPs. Well, we don’t get new original IP… > [@piratepants](#): > > No I’m just waiting for the XXXXX island announcement. The wait wasn’t too long! [I had an old tab open in case you wonder…] ---
**Author:** ![LogicDeLuxe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/logicdeluxe/32/15335_2.png) [@LogicDeLuxe](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/LogicDeLuxe)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/17 "2022-04-12T22:19:43Z")
> [@Sushi](#): > > Feels good to be wrong, right? My quoted guess at the time is still a valid possibility. We don’t know the real reason for reviving that brand instead of keeping the well known LucasArts name, which sure would be just as adequate for a Monkey Island game as well. In any case, I’m glad they actually use that brand for something really good. ---
**Author:** ![Aractus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/aractus/32/13579_2.png) [@Aractus](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Aractus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/18 "2022-04-13T02:33:27Z")
> [@LogicDeLuxe](#): > > We don’t know the real reason for reviving that brand instead of keeping the well known LucasArts name, which sure would be just as adequate for a Monkey Island game as well. Yes we do - _Lucasfilm Games is back, LucasArts isn’t_. LucasArts is no longer developing games. Since they’ve shifted Lucasfim to being confined to being a production-only game company (no development) they’ve dropped the LucasArts name as LA was mainly known for game development. As Ronbrush has said before, making a _good_ adventure game is a creative process. Disney’s cinematic focus has been on producing crowd-pleasing garbage for at least the last decade (probably longer), with the once great hand-drawn animated classics now a thing of the past. So don’t hold your breath with them having much to do with future Adventure games… all the people that are creative and capable enough to make great games can easily come up with their own original properties - they don’t need to license Disney’s. There are elements in Thimbleweed Park that definitely were going to be used for MI3A. ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 8:40am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/19 "2022-04-13T08:40:16Z")
> [@Aractus](#): > > on producing crowd-pleasing garbage I don’t agree with that. Disney produced some(!) interesting movies and … > [@Aractus](#): > > once great hand-drawn animated classics … some of these were “crowd-pleasing garbage” too (think of Brother Bear). But yes, it is sad that they don’t produce any hand drawn animation movies. ---
**Author:** ![Guga](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/guga/32/14476_2.png) [@Guga](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Guga)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 9:50am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678/20 "2022-04-13T09:50:10Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > (think of Brother Bear) Between Robin Hood and the Little Mermaid we had 10 years of mediocre movies, all hand drawn. [Next page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasfilm-games-is-back/4678.md?page=2)