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At gamescom 2024, we interviewed Axel Torvenius and Jens Andersson from MachineGames about the coming Indiana Jones game, the game industry in Sweden, the takeover of Bethesda by Microsoft and what it is like working with Disney and Lucasfilm Games. 

**Let’s start off with [Indiana Jones and the Great Circle](/game/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle) right away. What is the game’s pitch?**

**Axel Torvenius:** The game is a first person narrative cinematic adventure game. We are trying to get the message across that the core and the nature of the franchise are represented, and that means that we are focusing way more on the adventure aspect than on the action aspect. There is obviously action in the game, but we do not refer to it as an action adventure. Rather, we have been referring to it as adventure action and that's kind of where we are positioned. 

**Was that a hard transition then from doing Wolfenstein games?** 

**Jens Andersson:** It was definitely a challenge. You build up muscle memory as a studio on how you build stuff, how you tackle problems, what are good ideas that resonate with the rest of the team.

So going from this mature shooting game, from Wolfenstein to these adventure style Indiana Jones game took some time to sort of work through. Even more so because we can't really point to another game and say “you know, it's kind of like that”. We are blending so many different genres, adventure is such a wide concept, with the puzzles, with exploration and combining that with everything that's Indiana Jones like whip, the sinister forces and all that stuff. Getting the whole studio to really grasp the game that we're doing takes time. So its very challenging. 

Axel: Like Jens says, that is the challenge. But at the same time, there are things that come easier to us, even though nothing in this realm of video games comes easy. But what we always are focusing on and doing at MachineGames is to make sure that we have a strong narrative. And that's something that comes natural to us and everything that comes with a strong narrative as well. And that is still very true and very much part of making this game also. So to some extent it is natural to us to do what we're doing in this game. But we have, of course, had a lot of different parameters to consider trying to hit the tone that we feel that we need to hit for this.

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Axel Torvenius and Jens Andersson: "MachineGames Stands for the Cinematic, the Story First Approach"