Free Chapter & Shacknews Articles, Featuring Excerpts from SAAL — Posted 09-03-12 — Updated 11-02-12
Greetings Diablo and Blizzard fans! Since announcing Stay Awhile and Listen on Halloween last year, we've been busy rewriting, editing, fact-checking, and stuffing the book chockfull of Blizzard history, and the making of the Diablo, WarCraft, and StarCraft games. It's been a fun process for us, getting to learn about how all these cool people came together to make such cool games. But, alas, it left you with little more to go on besides the knowledge that someone, somewhere, is writing a book about Blizzard, and it will be available someday. Sorry about that. Let us make it up to you. Read more...
Meet the Team #3: Eric Sexton — Animator, Modeler, Writer, Designer: Diablo and Diablo II — 01-31-12
The team that created Diablo was so small that even a single departure from or addition to the team would have resulted in a very different game. While individuals on today's teams, comprised of 100 or more members, can still make a mark, smaller teams mean each individual makes a bigger impact. The opportunity to make crater-sized impacts fosters a powerful sense of ownership and encourages team members to step up. Read more...
Meet the Team #2: Michael Dashow — Artist, Diablo II —
01-06-12
If you've spent hours casting meteors and carving hell spawn with frozen orbs as the Sorceress, fallen victim to Diablo's devastating hose lightning attack in Diablo II (and who hasn't?), battled your way to the Cow King in the secret cow level, or posed the collectible Diablo action figure released shortly before Diablo II stormed store shelves in June 2000, then you're already intimately familiar with artist Michael Dashow's work on the reigning king of the action-RPG genre for the past 11.5 years (and counting). Read more...
Meet the Team #1: Blizzard North Co-Founders David Brevik, Max Schaefer, and Erich Schaefer — 10-31-11
Three years ago I decided to do what I could not believe no one else had done: write the complete story of Blizzard North and the making of the Diablo games. The first Blizz North developer to throw his weight behind the project was Eric Sexton, a great friend who reached out to former colleagues on my behalf and got names like Michio Okamura, Kelly Johnson, Matt Uelmen, and others to participate in the project. Read more...
Upcoming Book Invites Diablo Fans to Stay Awhile and Listen to the Untold Story of Blizzard North — 10-31-11
Former Blizzard Entertainment and Blizzard North developers tell the tale of one of the industry's most influential studios and the dungeon crawler that defined a genre. Read more...
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