Selvom EA har den eksklusive ret til at producere spil baseret på Star Wars-universet lidt endnu, så skal Lucasfilm stadig godkende individuelle ideer fra de studier der arbejder på Star Wars-spil. Da Respawn Entertainment skulle have deres idé, der blev til Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, godkendt, så var Lucasfilm dog ikke helt trygge.
For nylig talte instruktør Stig Asmussen lidt om den process i et podcastet AIAS Game Maker, og her forklarede han at de i starten ikke var glade for at Respawn ville lave et spil om Jedi, om lyssværd og om The Force.
"I pitched, 'Hey what if we do a game about Jedi and Force powers, and they were not super comfortable with that. They threw it back and said, 'What about blasters and bounty hunters?' That's not the background of the team we've built; you might as well ask me and us to start building a racing game at this point. I don't think anybody's going to be happy with the results of that."
"What I came to learn is for them, Jedi is the Holy Grail. To make a game about Jedi, you gotta earn it. There was a little bit of a back and forth but they could see where I was coming from."
De endte naturligvis med at få deres originale idé godkendt, og spillet endte både med at sælge godt, og fik fine karakterer over hele linjen. Rygtet siger desuden, at en efterfølger er på vej.
