"70-80 people on next gen teams" - Williams

Lucasarts project lead Chris Williams has revealed the scale of the company's next gen ambitions in his keynote address to the inaugural London Game Career Fair, currently under way at the Cafî Royal on Regent Street.

"We have 70-80 people working on next gen teams," Williams, who is currently in charge of the company's Indiana Jones project, said to a packed audience.

Williams will show the next gen versions of Indiana Jones and a new Star Wars game at his GDC keynote in London tomorrow.

"We can do real material physics now and that technology's really exciting," he said as a teaser of what's going to be on offer Wednesday morning.

Williams went on to give advice on software packages to become familiar with for those aspiring to enter the games industry professionally, specifically into project management, and offered some frank pointers on what larger publishers are looking for in terms of new talent.

"It really is working with people and sticking to schedules," he said. "Games are notoriously late, and that's something we want to correct."