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David Craddock and Two Blizzard North Co-Founders (Video 2 of 2)

Posted by Soulskill on from the lots-of-corporate-slashing-and-burning-behind-the-scenes dept.

In this video, we continue our conversation with author David Craddock about his investigation into the early days of game studio Blizzard for his new book, Stay Awhile and Listen. He's joined by Dave Brevik and Max Schaefer, two of the co-founders of Blizzard North. They talk about keeping games accessible, the importance of getting the amount of background story right in Diablo, and whether the creators of these early games have any regrets about them. They also talk about designing The Butcher. (This is video part 2 of 2. The transcript of Part 1 is now available, too, if you care to go back and read it.)

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  1. videos suck by Gothmolly · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They tried this with FarkTV. People read faster than you can talk, and not everyone has free bandwidth and necessary codecs. Stop sucking.

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    1. Re:videos suck by i+kan+reed · · Score: 1

      Also, it demeans your user base's intelligence. We can get that kind of drivel on buzzfeed or reddit.

    2. Re:videos suck by neminem · · Score: 2

      On the plus side, slashdot does include transcripts with all its videos now, something I wish every site would do. (Though I'd still rather prefer originally-written content, than transcribed content, but it's still better than watching a video for most things, unless they're specifically trying to demonstrate a visual concept.)

    3. Re:videos suck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Though I'd still rather prefer originally-written content, than transcribed content

      As Kevin Nealon once said as the Weekend Update anchor on SNL: "If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said."

    4. Re:videos suck by Finallyjoined!!! · · Score: 1

      RTNR - and the point of this article is what, precisely?

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    5. Re:videos suck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      On other sites, they use videos since it is a way to pitch ads that are unskippable.

  2. Re:The Book by binarylarry · · Score: 1

    Video games *as they've been* are dead.

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  3. Re:Stay Awhile and Listen? by binarylarry · · Score: 1

    FuckU and Go Away!

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  4. Ad torture by Avatar8 · · Score: 1
    I understand the need for ads to keep /. free.

    I'm okay with losing 20, 30 even 60 seconds of my life in order to watch a video.

    But 2:15 of IBM talking about vague business practices around the "cloud" is horrendous and sadistic.

    Stop torturing your audience, get sponsors that have something to do with technology and understand it and keep the ads at least reasonable to the typical TV :30 or :60 at most.