Tag Archives: blizzard

Mar
30
2009

Embrace

“Basically, and I’m speaking to the Blizzard guys in the back: we need to stop writing a fucking book in our game, because nobody wants to read it.” [...] We need to deliver our story in a way that is uniquely video game.
– Jeff Kaplan (Former Director of World of Warcraft) Speaking at the 2009 [...]

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Oct
10
2008

I Think We All Know What This is About

The Wizard class has been revealed and the announcement came with a video, a trailer, and another video. And Nick Breckon at Shacknews has a small hands on article about Diablo 3.
The lead designer on the game, Jay Wilson, also talks about skill runes which seems rad as hell.
I want it so much. So bad. [...]

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Oct
06
2008

Mechanics 1: Randomness in Strategy

A real-time strategy game is, by definition, a game where players are forced to make strategic and tactical decisions in real time. As the game industry grows, the real-time strategy genre has narrowed its focus to a very specific type of game that does little to force players to consider an over-arching strategy as comprised [...]

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