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What You Didn't Know About LEGO Indiana Jones 2

Game development often lasts for years. And in that stretch of time, studios have their fair share of ups and downs. From humorous game bugs to stress-relieving antics, Game Informer peers behind the curtain of game development. In this entry of Tidbits, developer Traveller's Tales shares secrets behind the development of LEGO Indiana Jones 2.

  • Every new vehicle created for the game is built in LEGO first. We have a team of fanatically dedicated artists who assemble everything with real LEGO brick before committing it to the code.
  • The movie hubs are the biggest levels ever to be created in a LEGO game.
  • The local pizza restaurant told us that we are their number one customer.
  • We burned through 13 Xbox 360 power packs, and three TVs during the development of the game.
  • The first place the game could be played by the public was at LEGOLAND Windsor for their LEGO Indiana Jones Fireworks Extravaganza.
  • There are almost an infinite number of combinations available in the Creator Mode.
  • The Mos Eisley cantina music makes a secret appearance somewhere in the game.
  • The PS3 version of the game is 7,378,763,776 bytes on disc.
  • Four non-rechargeable batteries exploded over the course of LEGO Indiana Jones 2, due to someone mistakenly trying to recharge them.
  • Traveller’s Tales’ QA spent 35,000 man hours testing the game.
  • The record for making the quickest fully playable level in the Creator was eight minutes from start to finish.
  • Traveller’s Tales development runs on cakes. More than 50 cakes were required to fuel their creative works in the months of August and September.
  • The satellites you can destroy and the antennae that you can pick up in the Cairo area of the Raiders of the Lost Ark hub is a reference to the actual film. For filming the scenes on Sallah's terrace, 350 television antennas had to be removed from local buildings to present a 1930s skyline.

 

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Comments
  • That would be fun building lego vehicles for the game.

  • Staff

    Yeah. Not a bad job at all.

  • wow epic facts dude bravo

  • I didnt know rechargeable batteries explode when you try to recharge them.

  • cake and pizza......a champion's meal if ever there was one.

  • Technically, no number can ever be "almost infinite".

    Cool stuff.

  • Exploding batteries, I've done that.

  • I wonder is the PS3 version took up more space than the others.

  • Correction: "if"

  • Can't wait to play the game. It may sound a bit childish, but i love the Lego series of games and i'm still a proud owner of my Lego Indiana Jones copy :)

  • never played a lego game before...

  • they make a recharger that does akaline and nicad now  invest

  • I am a useless information super-monger.

  • Great article.  Keep these coming!

  • I love the batteries one :)

  • LEGOLEGOLEGOLEGOLEGOLEGOLEGO

  • Make these things longer!

  • informative. over 7 billion bytes, yikes!!

  • Is there such thing as "almost an infinite" number of anything?

  • How can you have "almost infinite" of something?

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