The Star Wars-themed Easter eggs hiding in Alone in the Dark 2
The article explores the numerous Star Wars Easter eggs hidden in the 1993 video game Alone in the Dark 2, including character names, dialogue references, and visual nods to the original trilogy embedded throughout the survival horror title.
Background
- *Alone in the Dark 2* (1993) is a survival-horror video game developed by Infogrames, notable as a precursor to the *Resident Evil* series. The article reveals that the game contains hidden references ("Easter eggs") to *Star Wars*, inserted by a programmer without the knowledge of the game's lead designer, Frédérick Raynal.
- Infogrames was a major French video-game publisher (later renamed Atari SA); the original *Alone in the Dark* (1992) was a landmark title that pioneered the fixed-camera-angle, 3D-character-over-2D-background style that *Resident Evil* later popularized.
- Raynal went on to found the studio Adeline Software and create the cult-classic *Little Big Adventure* series. The article cites his recent claim that the *Star Wars* gags were unauthorized additions by a junior coder — a claim the author treats skeptically, given that these Easter eggs required significant effort and the altered game code had to pass through quality assurance.