
While Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is being developed by Wolfenstein studio MachineGames, it was Bethesda Games Studios' Todd Howard that inspired a "major plot device."
In Edge issue 402, lead writer Tommy Tordsson-Bjork shared that "Todd Howard was the instigator of our major plot device, the Great Circle, which he has been mulling for many years. With that seed of a story, we gathered a team of us at MachineGames and started working out the bones of what would eventually become our narrative framework."