My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin Tom Keegan, performance director (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Battlefield, Resident Evil 2 Remake).
Mar 10, 2026
Tom Keegan, a performance director with roots in theatre, animation and games, credited on titles like Resident Evil 2 Remake and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. He discusses why he wrote a directing guide, how he briefs actors for games, translating between actors and developers, mocap realities, and the impact of strikes and AI on performers.
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Playing Journey With My Daughter
- Keegan played Journey with his eight-year-old daughter and valued its three-hour, cooperative, non-toxic online experience.
- He highlights Journey's late reveal that other players were real people who had finished the game and came back to help.
The Last Of Us Made Me Stop Playing
- Keegan says The Last of Us moved him so deeply he often couldn't play much of it at once.
- He also recalls Neil Druckmann inviting him to be involved in casting and directing to achieve high acting quality.
World War I Research Changed My View
- Keegan worked on Battlefield 1 and learned about World War I's scale and horrors while shaping its narratives.
- He credits Stefan Strandberg's vision to structure the game as discrete chapters to avoid catastrophic story cuts like Battlefield 4.
