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This week Spark is in San Francisco for the GDC(Game Developer's Conference). Last night Spark went out to dinner with their publisher and tweeted this:



For those that may not know, Twitter geotags you to a general area where your tweet came from as seen in the photo above. Their tweet came from an area of San Francisco called Cow Hollow. Now, this doesn't pinpoint a restaurant or a specific place, but it does put them in a small geographic area.

What's interesting is what is located within 3 minutes driving distance from the heart of Cow Hollow:



That's right, LucasFilm. LucasArts is also on this campus.

So I thought, well, maybe their publisher just decided to have dinner with them and they coincidentally went there...except that it's on the other side of town from the GDC and several other locations Spark mentioned they had been.

Spark tweeted:
Spark Unlimited ‏ @sparkunlimited
The W is the hotel bar to meet up and drink up. It is rough sometimes doing business. ;)

Spark Unlimited ‏ @sparkunlimited
Dinner is over. Heading to the Infusion Lounge now.

The Infusion Lounge, The W Hotel, and the Moscone Convention Center(where GDC is being held) are all within 2 blocks of each other and a 20 minute drive away from LucasArts and where they had dinner. This of course is not definitive proof that Spark Unlimited had dinner with LucasArts. However, when companies attend out of town conventions, they tend to stay very close to the hotel or the convention location and away from areas that may only be familiar to someone that might live and work in the city.

***UPDATE***:
So from the info above, Spark went to dinner with their publisher(whomever it may be) from the restaurant within 3 mins. driving distance of LucasArts to the Infusion Lounge across town after dinner.

Guess what?

LucasArts hosted their GDC party at the Infusion Lounge that night.

Wow, Great find!

While not definitive proof by any means, your theory has a great deal of merit!

In response to the update: WHOA! Now that's evidence!

Edit: Also, they said they were heading to the infusion lounge just 20 min. before the LA party.

You sir, need a medal for this find

Great news, well done

This is also interesting: https://twitter.com/#!/sparkunlimited/s ... 0368060416

Terrabyte20xx wrote:In response to the update: WHOA! Now that's evidence!

Edit: Also, they said they were heading to the infusion lounge just 20 min. before the LA party.

Can't start a party without the host

This is fantastic! there has to be some sort of connection, im assuming LA's party was an invite only, why would they invite a game developer unless they were developing one of their games.

snicker wrote:This is fantastic! there has to be some sort of connection, im assuming LA's party was an invite only, why would they invite a game developer unless they were developing one of their games.

There was another tweet I saw today that was advertising tickets to the event so I don't know if it was invite only. I've asked several people who went but none have yet replied.

If it WAS invite only, it would be the nail in the coffin. There'd be no reason besides a business relationship that would get you invited to the party. Again, I'm not sure if it was invite only.

Very nice find! You just made the front page news my man.

Please let this be true!!!!!!!!

A person can only lie so well, and coincidence can only associate with human behavior so long. One must conclude the underlying truth about Spark Unlimited is: they're making a Star Wars game.

evergreen wrote:A person can only lie so well, and coincidence can only associate with human behavior so long. One must conclude the underlying truth about Spark Unlimited is: they're making a Star Wars game.

I'll take the blue pill then.