During the production of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, the development team wanted to give their protagonist, an apprentice of Darth Vader, a "Darth" moniker of their very own. They asked Lucas if that was cool, and by total surprise, he said "yes" and gave them three possible options: "Darth Icky," "Darth Insanius," or "Darth Suck It There's No Third Option."

LucasArts"I've taken the liberty of designing his character model, too."

The developers probably reacted with laughter ... later tinged with existential despair when it turned out that they were seriously the only options he was giving them. With a Force-powered hard pass, the team scrapped the storyline until the sequel, by which time Lucas had forgotten all about it.

LucasArtsOne of the developers waved a hand in his face and said, "These are not the names you want."

And then Lucas did the exact same thing during the development of the sadly never-released Star Wars: 1313. The original vision of the game, which the developers had spent years and millions of dollars building, starred a brand-new bounty hunter character. Right before they were about to unveil the game for the first time, however, Lucas decided that 1313 had to star Boba Fett, i.e. the most useless "badass" in the galaxy.

LucasfilmHis special move.

Everything had to be completely redesigned midway through the development cycle in order to accommodate this insane request. All in the midst of a hiring freeze. By the time Disney acquired Star Wars, shuttered LucasArts, and cancelled 1313, it was less like a murder and more of a mercy kill.

There was a good reason the pretend violence looked so visceral, however: It was real violence. In order to make sure that the pedestrians reacted like normal people to the sight of a car barreling down on them, the development team hired a local nutcase, "Tony," and repeatedly ran him over with a station wagon.

Tony would act out a variety of reactions and then take a dive across the car, taking care not to break his ... everything. What about safety equipment, you ask? If they'd heard of the concept, it wasn't on display, with their impromptu stuntman -- who was presumably paid in pints of bitter and lottery tickets -- settling for padding his clothes with cardboard. It eventually came to a head when Tony asked them to run him down at 35 mph in the hopes that he'd clear the roof.

He didn't.

Stainless GamesIf you look carefully, you can see that it says "100 credits" over his head.

Eventually, the developers received a visit from the police after worried locals called in reports of a man being tortured in a dingy parking lot. After listening to their story and confirming that this was all consensual, the police took off and the developers were left to wonder if this was a sign from the Universe about how the world would react to their vision.

During the development of one quest, the makers wanted players to follow a linear path, without distractions, and so coded all the doors in that area to lock. Once the quest was over, the game would then unlock said doors and allow gamers to carry on killing and fucking their way across the world. The only problem was that the game had no idea what doors were locked before the quest ... so it unlocked every door, from doors that you could go through to doors that needed a key to open to (crucially) doors that weren't supposed to open because there was no building attached to them, only the game's hellish void of nothingness.

A high-quality render of one such scene.

In order to stop players from consigning themselves to the sunken place, one member of the development had to recode the mechanics of every door in the game. Individually. All so that they'd keep their original state after that one troublesome quest. It's kinda poetic, in a way. The developers thought they were designing a quest, and thanks to that one piece of code, they did just that for one poor bastard, who presumably didn't see sunlight or their family for a week.