When asked by the media if this were the case, the developer answered each inquiry with a brief but curious remark, ”You’ll have ask Lucas Arts about its franchises, we’re just a developer, not publisher.”
The developer has now increased speculation that they are working on the next edition of the popular Battlefield-style Star Wars shooter with new job listings on their site.
The classified for a senior combat designer states that the position is ”for a 3rd Person Action/Adventure sequel in a high-profile science fiction franchise currently greenlit for full production development for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC markets.”
Meanwhile, the LinkedIn profile of Cesareo Gutierrez states that the senior AI director has been ”working for three years in a AAA third person shooter using Unreal Engine and Kynapse AI middleware.”
If that weren’t enough, the official company tweeted last week, ”Since we are working on a sequel for a well known sci-fi franchise, all aspects must remain secret,” when asked by a gamer appropriately named “sithwarrior26”, ”Is the publisher that is so secret for your new game a well known publisher?” The most revealing word in Spark’s tweet is “sequel”, meaning whatever they are working on, it’s not an original IP.
At this point, the fact that Spark is working on Star Wars: Battlefront 3 is probably the worst kept secret in the industry.
