How to play the mobile games that will turn Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge into a role-playing universe
The interactive Galaxy's Edge Data Pad mobile games are closely connected to the Star Wars land coming to Disneyland.
A series of interactive smartphone games will transform Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge into an immersive real-world role-playing universe that will let players collect galactic credits and unlock additional layers of backstory about the new themed land coming to Disneyland.
“From the beginning, we’ve always really thought of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge as for world’s largest Star Wars playset,” said Walt Disney Imagineering executive creative director Asa Kalama. “Building on that idea of being able to imagine and role play Star Wars in your backyard. Being able to do that in a world that is fully supportive of all of the things that you’ve imagined in your mind for all of these years.”
Galaxy’s Edge Data Pad mobile games will have four key tools: Hack, Scan, Translate and Tune.
The hack tool lets players access the memory banks of droids and interact with devices throughout the land. Need to find the ship schematics of a First Order Star Destroyer? The hack tool can help.
The scan tool reads shipping labels that reveal what artifacts and weapons are stowed inside the cargo containers found in ride queues. Is the bounty inside the container encrypted? Use the app’s decryption key to unscramble the message.
The translate tool deciphers languages spoken by alien creatures and carved into building facades.
“As you walk through the land there’s alien languages written on walls and hand carved into stone and things like that,” Ging said. “You’ll hear characters speaking in their native alien tongue. And the translate tool is a way for you to actually understand what they’re talking about and what’s written on that wall.”
The tune tool helps you find and decode secret radio transmissions heard throughout the land.