Don't worry, animal lovers: Indiana Jones will not kill dogs

It may seem silly, but for some time now, video game studios have been creating their titles largely by paying attention to a Twitter account: Can you pet the dog? On that account, gamers (and let’s not kid ourselves, the studios themselves) upload all those games where we can pet pixelated dogs, which has obviously led to everyone introducing the option (or a variant, like petting an alien, for example). And where does Indiana Jones come in? It’s very simple.

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The new game in the saga, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, is made by MachineGames, the same studio as the latest Wolfenstein games, leading to a question from future players: if in that game we could shoot dogs without any problem, will Indiana be able to do the same? The answer, in case the headline didn’t give you enough clues, is a resounding “no.”

“We have done it so that you cannot shoot the dogs directly. Indy is a dog lover,“ said creative director Jens Andersson. It makes sense—after all, his name is the same as his father’s dog. “This is obviously a bit different than Wolfenstein, where the dog would explode.” So far, no one has created the Twitter account Can You Explode The Dog, so maybe it’s time, right?