Via Wired.com:

WELL, IT DIDN’T take long for mobile games to become every bit as high-stakes as the console games they’re replacing. Publisher Kabam said today that it’s planning a Star Wars role-playing game for mobile platforms that, from all appearances, is fairly huge in its scope.

Star Wars Uprising, slated for a beta release in a few weeks, is created by Kabam’s “RPG Studio” in San Francisco, which boasts among its staff members Daniel Erickson, the former creative director of Electronic Arts’ Star Wars MMO The Old Republic. Heading up animation is Danny Keller, who directed several episodes of the Clone Wars animated series.

“We have people from Blizzard, Lucasfilm… we have assembled a true, in the traditional sense, RPG studio,” Kabam general manager Tim Ernst told WIRED in advance of the announcement.
“It is a true RPG,” said Kabam senior vice president Aaron Loeb. “It is really about building your Star Wars fantasy, of being the character you most want to be in that universe.” Players will create their own characters at the game’s outset, Loeb said, noting that just as just as Princess Leia might be described in turns as a noble, a spy, or a general, you too can be a “hybrid” of different character classes.

Star Wars fans might appreciate the uniqueness of the storyline—the game will be set immediately following the fall of Emperor Palpatine at the end of Return of the Jedi, but in a remote part of the galaxy that hasn’t quite gotten the memo; the game’s antagonist is “pretending that the Emperor is still alive, and using this lie to keep the Empire under his thumb,” said Loeb.

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