A new job listing has confirmed that Warner Bros Discovery and TT Games are currently gearing up to develop a new Lego game in Unreal Engine 5.
The listing for Senior Game Programmer reads, "The project you will be on will be a major IP-based Lego game built in Unreal." These two facts are a given, so there are no surprises there. Still, fans of the Lego games series will be heartened to hear TT Games is working on the next instalment.
Lego: The Skywalker Saga was built on the proprietary NTT engine, but the resulting disastrous crunch-laden development cycle forced TT Games to agree to use Unreal Engine going forward, per Polygon .
Nothing in the remainder of the listing is too revealing, just the usual responsibilities you'd expect of a senior developer. Before the release of The Skywalker Saga, a senior member of TT Games called the game a "flag bearer" for the future of the series, implying that the format of The Skywalker Saga may be the format for the series going forward.
This has led to speculation that the upcoming game could be a 'complete' version of Lego Harry Potter, in the vein of The...
