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

Posted by Soulskill on Monday November 4, 2013 @09:43AM 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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videos suck by Gothmolly · 2013-11-04 09:46 · 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 neminem · 2013-11-04 09:58 · 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.)