Haden Blackman is the project leader for The Force Unleashed game. He is the author of The Field Guide to North American Monsters and Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels. He has also worked extensively within the Star Wars universe on a variety of video games and comic book projects, including Dark Horse Comics' Jango Fett: Open Seasons, LucasArts' Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, and The Ruins of Dantooine, the first novel based on Star Wars galaxies.