The creative director of Visceral's as-yet-untitled 2018 Star Wars game has dropped a few hints about the project she calls, "an original Star Wars story with new characters, new locations, new tech, new creatures, you name it.”

As part of a panel on EA's Star Wars games, Amy Hennig explained that in studying the Star Wars films, "the first thing that jumped out was that these are always ensemble stories [...] So the same is true of our game."

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Hennig was understandably hazy on details, but her words seem to hint at a game focused on more than one principal character, whether that's through multiple playables, a squad or otherwise:

"The end goal of a game like [this] is that by the time the player has finished playing the game they feel like they really did play a Star Wars film [...] So part of our deconstruction is to figure out how we enable that not only just in the story and honour it, but do it in gameplay as well. Because your characters - it’s not a lone wolf story, that’s not Star Wars - your characters have to be a coordinated ensemble acting in the moment and in parallel."

Hennig discussed her approach to writing the game in some detail, comparing it to her work on the series she made her name with:

"The process that I’ve been using is really similar to what I did for Uncharted, to be honest. [Crowd cheers] Oh good, they’ll like this game, then."

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Uncharted voice actor Nolan North has previously said that the game will be in the style of the series Hennig wrote three games for, and the tone she ascribes to Star Wars does sound similar:

"It’s what my writing partner Todd calls 'breezy urgency', the idea that there’s a sort of swashbuckling charm to the thing, there’s humour and buoyancy. At the same time there’s stakes and jeopardy."

The best hints, however, may lie in what we've already seen. Hennig says the small crop of concept images released from the game previously - and some new images shown during the panel - contain more than meets the eye:

"With the few images that we’re allowed to show, we did breadcrumb a lot of clues in there. So I would invite people to scrutinise them, speculate away, because we stuck some stuff in there.”

Scrutinise away - we've popped them below:

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Sadly, that seems to be all we'll get until 2017. “We’re probably going to go dark for a little while now," explained Hennig at the end of the panel. "We’re just really excited to really blow everything out and show you guys stuff next year.”Don't worry, Star Wars Celebration has revealed far more concrete stuff from other corners of the Star Wars universe. Like a new Rogue One teaser . And the Star Wars Rebels Season 3 premiere . And magical Star Wars drones . It's been fun! You should check it all out

Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK News Editor, and all he's got in his head is that this is a Star Wars reskin of Brute Force. He's cool with that. Follow him on Twitter