BlizzCast Episode 5 - Revision history

Leord at 16:42, 17 June 2010

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Elly at 20:30, 5 December 2008

2008-12-05T20:30:59Z

Leord: Blizzcast Episode 5 moved to BlizzCast Episode 5: Blizzcast -> BlizzCast

2008-12-05T11:35:00Z

Blizzcast Episode 5 moved to BlizzCast Episode 5: Blizzcast -> BlizzCast

Leord at 11:34, 5 December 2008

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Elly at 17:36, 1 December 2008

2008-12-01T17:36:34Z

Elly: /* Part Two - Interview with Jay Wilson, Lead Designer of Diablo 3 */

2008-11-29T20:32:19Z

‎Part Two - Interview with Jay Wilson, Lead Designer of Diablo 3

Elly at 19:57, 29 November 2008

2008-11-29T19:57:39Z

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 '''Who:''' [[Karune]], [[Bashiok]] and Nethaera discuss their [[WWI 2008]] Paris experience and Bashiok interviews [[Jay Wilson]], Lead Designer [[Diablo 3]].
-{{BlizzCast navbox}}
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+{{BlizzCast navbox}}In this special Worldwide Invitational wrap-up edition of BlizzCast, we briefly recap some of the events at the recent WWI in Paris, and then move straight into a discussion with Diablo III Lead Designer Jay Wilson. We quiz him on how the development team is evolving the classic series --  and then dive into a discussion of some recent hot issues surrounding the upcoming sequel.
 ''[00:14]''
 '''Karune:''' Welcome everyone, back to BlizzCast.  We have a special episode today for you guys, our WWI follow up, and my name is Karune, your RTS community manager.  Here we also have Nethaera.
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 '''Bashiok:''' Yeah, I interviewed the lead designer on Diablo 3, Jay Wilson, talking about his experience at WWI, the development of Diablo three and some of the topics that have come up since the announcement, some of the hotter topics. So, it's going to be fun.  Get ready for it.
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 '''Bashiok:''' This has been Bashiok, for the special edition BlizzCast, wrapping up, WWI. Thanks for listening!
 * Download Episode 5 in .mp3 format 70.9mb [http://media.wow-europe.com/blizzcast/blizzcast_episode5.mp3 EU Mirror]  [http://us.media.blizzard.com/blizzcast/blizzcast_episode5.mp3 US Mirror]
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 '''Duration:''' 38:37
-'''Who:''' Karune, Bashiok and Nethaera discuss their WWI Paris experience and Bashiok interviews Jay Wilson, Lead Designer Diablo 3.
+'''Who:''' [[Karune]], [[Bashiok]] and Nethaera discuss their [[WWI 2008]] Paris experience and Bashiok interviews [[Jay Wilson]], Lead Designer [[Diablo 3]].
-=Introduction=
+{{BlizzCast navbox}}
 In this special Worldwide Invitational wrap-up edition of BlizzCast, we briefly recap some of the events at the recent WWI in Paris, and then move straight into a discussion with Diablo III Lead Designer Jay Wilson. We quiz him on how the development team is evolving the classic series --  and then dive into a discussion of some recent hot issues surrounding the upcoming sequel.
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 '''Karune:''' Welcome everyone, back to BlizzCast.  We have a special episode today for you guys, our WWI follow up, and my name is Karune, your RTS community manager.  Here we also have Nethaera.
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 '''Bashiok:''' Yeah, I interviewed the lead designer on Diablo 3, Jay Wilson, talking about his experience at WWI, the development of Diablo three and some of the topics that have come up since the announcement, some of the hotter topics. So, it's going to be fun.  Get ready for it.
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 '''Jay Wilson:''' No problem
-'''Bashiok:''' This has been Bashiok, for the special edition Blizzcast, wrapping up, WWI. Thanks for listening!
+'''Bashiok:''' This has been Bashiok, for the special edition BlizzCast, wrapping up, WWI. Thanks for listening!
 * Download Episode 5 in .mp3 format 70.9mb [http://media.wow-europe.com/blizzcast/blizzcast_episode5.mp3 EU Mirror]  [http://us.media.blizzard.com/blizzcast/blizzcast_episode5.mp3 US Mirror]
 * [http://us.blizzard.com/blizzcast/_content/en-GB/rss.xml RSS Feed]
 * [http://www.blizzard.com/blizzcast Official Blizzcast Site]
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+[[Category:BlizzCast]]

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 '''Bashiok:''' Yeah a signing table.
-'''Jay Wilson:''' They brought Diablo 2 manuals, I think they were hoping, you know they brought lots of stuff for us to sign and it was really cool to be able to like talk to people one on one.  Have the whole little subsection of the team there.  We had artists drawing little impromptu sketches in people's books and that was really fun.
+'''Jay Wilson:''' They brought [[Diablo 2]] manuals, I think they were hoping, you know they brought lots of stuff for us to sign and it was really cool to be able to like talk to people one on one.  Have the whole little subsection of the team there.  We had artists drawing little impromptu sketches in people's books and that was really fun.
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 '''Bashiok:''' Yeah, who was it that was drawing houses?
-'''Jay Wilson:''' Uh, Jeff Kang, one of our environment artists.  He drew houses, and so I did a UI mockup because I don't really have any drawing skills.
+'''Jay Wilson:''' Uh, [[Jeff Kang]], one of our environment artists.  He drew houses, and so I did a UI mockup because I don't really have any drawing skills.
 '''Bashiok:''' A skill tree, that's exciting for everyone.
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-'''Bashiok:''' So, everybody's back from WWI now, have been for a while.  Where is the development team focused right now?  What is everybody working on?
+'''Bashiok:''' So, everybody's back from [[WWI 2008| WWI]] now, have been for a while.  Where is the development team focused right now?  What is everybody working on?
-'''Jay Wilson:''' Well the team's pretty big so we've got them split up on different things.  Most of the art team is actually working on the second act of the game, because a lot of the team is really production focused now and we're generating content for the most part a lot of the tech and underlying engine is really solid.  Most of the design team is still on Act 1 because we're refining and improving the quests and flow and some of the big game systems that we haven't really announced yet.  We kind of dove back into content production fairly quickly.
+'''Jay Wilson:''' Well the [[:Category:D3_Team| team's pretty big]] so we've got them split up on different things.  Most of the art team is actually working on the second act of the game, because a lot of the team is really production focused now and we're generating content for the most part a lot of the tech and underlying engine is really solid.  Most of the design team is still on Act 1 because we're refining and improving the quests and flow and some of the big game systems that we haven't really announced yet.  We kind of dove back into content production fairly quickly.
 '''Bashiok:''' You mentioned that art has moved on to Act 2 but design is on Act 1, or kind of spread around.  How much of the development time is actually charging through to new acts, and how much is actually going back and retouching old acts?
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 '''Bashiok:''' Of Course.  So moving on to the coolest thing about Diablo – the abilities – your hero class, what you're destroying monsters with at WWI there was a lot of emphasis on art and design coming together to create a cohesive ability, you need the effect to make it look cool but you also need the design to make it function in a way that's interesting.  But aside from the cool effects for the abilities; what really comes from design to request or need an ability for a class?   From a design perspective what are you thinking about when you ask for an ability?
-'''Jay Wilson:''' Well there are a lot of factors that go into ability selection.  Some abilities satisfy those factors a little differently and that's fine.  You mentioned cool factor that's an important one, you want an ability to be cool, you want a class to be cool, so if he's going to be cool his actions define that.  So if he's does cool stuff he's going to be a cool class.  The next one is you really want him to be archetypal.  A great example with the Barbarian is we really wanted him to be all about physical force so we made some of his choices, like the changes we made to leap attack: it's a lot more forceful, it does AOE damage instead of single target damage.  We did those types of things to enforce the fact that he's a very physical character.  You know the next one would be we want each class to be unique.  What happens is a lot of players will request ‘Can we have 20 or 30 classes?'  The answer would be yes but a lot of them are going to be really similar and we don't want that.  We want each class to feel unique, to have unique abilities that are key to them.  But the one that probably defines them all is really function and challenge, as we create new enemies and new challenges for the players to face, a lot of times giving the player the tools to face those challenges is in the form of an ability.  If we introduce a character or an enemy who is really good at controlling the player, say he's got crazy slow attacks that make it really hard to face him, especially if you're a Barbarian, maybe the Barbarian needs some kind of way to counter that, maybe he needs an ability prevents him from being slowed or allows him to get good hits.  D2, Diablo 2, had abilities like that as well, like concentration and things like that.  So function is one thing, the challenge of enemies, keeping a class archetypal, all those different things
+'''Jay Wilson:''' Well there are a lot of factors that go into ability selection.  Some abilities satisfy those factors a little differently and that's fine.  You mentioned cool factor that's an important one, you want an ability to be cool, you want a class to be cool, so if he's going to be cool his actions define that.  So if he's does cool stuff he's going to be a cool class.  The next one is you really want him to be archetypal.  A great example with the [[Barbarian]] is we really wanted him to be all about physical force so we made some of his choices, like the changes we made to [[Berserker_Skill_Tree#Leap_Attack| leap attack]]: it's a lot more forceful, it does AOE damage instead of single target damage.  We did those types of things to enforce the fact that he's a very physical character.
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