What WouldBlizzard

Do?

Nick Prühs

About Me

“Best Bachelor“ Computer ScienceKiel University, 2009

Master GamesHamburg University of Applied Sciences,2011

Lead ProgrammerDaedalic Entertainment, 2011-2012

Co-Founderslash games, 2013

Microsoft MVP2015

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Gameplay First

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Erich Schaefer. Postmortem: Blizzard's Diablo II. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131533/postmortem_blizzards

_diablo_ii.php

“First, we make the game playable as soon as possiblein the development process. Our initial priority was toget a guy moving around on the screen and hackingmonsters. This is what players would be doing most ofthe time, and it had to be fun.”

Gameplay First

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Gameplay First

Excel CSV XML Game

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Commit To Quality

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Erich Schaefer. Postmortem: Blizzard's Diablo II. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131533/postmortem_blizzards

_diablo_ii.php

“The task of testing a game of Diablo II's scope, with itshuge degree of randomness and its nearly infinitecharacter skill and equipment paths, required aHerculean effort. […] Would a party of five Paladins,each using a different defensive aura, be untouchable?After more than 100 hours of play, is a fire-basedSorceress unable to continue in Hell Mode?”

Every Voice Matters

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Every Voice Matters

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Every Voice Matters

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This is okay. (Endboss)

Every Voice Matters

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This is not. (Intermediate level)

Because you wouldn't usea screwdriver on a nail...

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StarCraft II Galaxy Editor

Because you wouldn't usea screwdriver on a nail...

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StarCraft II Galaxy Editor

Because you wouldn't usea screwdriver on a nail...

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StarCraft II Galaxy Editor

Because you wouldn't usea screwdriver on a nail...

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StarCraft II MakeCombat

Because you wouldn't usea screwdriver on a nail...

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Erich Schaefer. Postmortem: Blizzard's Diablo II. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131533/postmortem_blizzards

_diablo_ii.php

“In many cases we created tools to speed up contentcreation, but then abandoned them. Too often, wedecided to keep using inferior tools because we thoughtwe were almost done with the game, and didn't wantto take the time to improve them.Unfortunately, in most of these cases, we were notreally almost done with the game.“

Genre Standards

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StarCraft II Screenshot

Genre Standards

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StarCraft II Screenshot

Genre Standards

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StarCraft II Screenshot

Genre Standards

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StarCraft II Screenshot

Genre Standards

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StarCraft II Screenshot

Genre Standards

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StarCraft II Screenshot

Genre Standards

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StarCraft II Screenshot

Genre Standards

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StarCraft II Screenshot

Genre Standards

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Unreal Tournament 3 Splash Screen

Genre Standards

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Unreal Tournament 3 Login Screen

Genre Standards

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Hostile Worlds Screen Transitions

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Steam Server Browser

Genre Standards

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WarCraft III Lobby

Genre Standards

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WarCraft III Loading Screen

Genre Standards

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WarCraft III Score Screen

Genre Standards

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StarCraft II Options Screen

Open Game Sources

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Doom 3 GPL Release on GitHub

Open Game Sources

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Blizzard on GitHub

Open Game Sources

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Blizzard QT on GitHub

Open Game Sources

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Blizzard Premake on GitHub

Project Structure

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Windows 10 - System32 Folder

Project Structure

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> 3000 Libraries

Project Structure

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Hearthstone Asset Bundles

Project Structure

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Hearthstone Data Files

Project Structure

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StarCraft II “Mods”

Project Structure

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StarCraft Game Folder Size

Project Structure

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StarCraft MPQ Files

Data Structure

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPQ

MPQ (Mo'PaQ, short for Mike O'Brien Pack, named after its creator[citation

needed]), is an archiving file format used in several of Blizzard Entertainment's games.MPQs used in Blizzard's games generally contain a game's data files, including graphics, sounds, and level data. The format's capabilities include compression, encryption, file segmentation, extensible file metadata, cryptographic signature and the ability to store multiple versions of the same file for internationalization and platform-specific differences. MPQ archives can use a variety of compression algorithms which may also be combined.

Data Structure

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Hearthstone Localization Files (GAMEPLAY.txt)

TAG TEXT COMMENT

GAMEPLAY_COIN_TOSS_LOST You get an extra card

GAMEPLAY_COIN_TOSS_WON You go first

GAMEPLAY_FATIGUE_TITLE Fatigue

GAMEPLAY_FATIGUE_TEXT Out of cards! Take {0} damage.

GAMEPLAY_FATIGUE_HISTORY_TEXT Trying to draw from an empty deck

deals increasing damage to your hero.

GAMEPLAY_END_TURNEND TURN

GAMEPLAY_ENEMY_TURN ENEMY TURN

GAMEPLAY_YOUR_TURN Your Turn

GAMEPLAY_ERROR_PLAY_REJECTED Too late! Your turn is over.

GAMEPLAY_MOBILE_BATTLECRY_CANCELED Battlecry canceled.

GAMEPLAY_MANA_COUNTER {0}/{1} 0=unused mana 1=current total mana

Data Structure

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Hearthstone Data Files (BOARD.xml)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Dbf><Column name="ID" type="Int" /><Column name="NOTE_DESC" type="String" /><Column name="PREFAB" type="AssetPath" /><Record><Field column="ID">1</Field><Field column="PREFAB">Assets/Game/Boards/STW/STW</Field><Field column="NOTE_DESC">Stormwind</Field></Record><Record><Field column="ID">2</Field><Field column="PREFAB">Assets/Game/Boards/ORG/ORG</Field><Field column="NOTE_DESC">Orgrimmar</Field></Record>

Log Files

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Hearthstone Log File

Platform assembly:

D:\Games\Hearthstone\Hearthstone_Data\Managed\ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll (this

message is harmless)

Loading D:\Games\Hearthstone\Hearthstone_Data\Managed\ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll

into Unity Child Domain

Platform assembly: D:\Games\Hearthstone\Hearthstone_Data\Managed\PlayMaker.dll

(this message is harmless)

Loading D:\Games\Hearthstone\Hearthstone_Data\Managed\PlayMaker.dll into Unity

Child Domain

Log Files

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League of Legends Log File

Function: Spell::Effect::SpellFXRenderer::Update

Expression: false

001567.413| 0.0000kb| 0.0000kb added| ERROR| Assertion

failed!

File: E:/jenkins/workspace/game-code-Releases-4-18-public-

win32/code/Game/LoL/Spell/Effect/Client/SpellFXRenderer.cpp

Line: 854

Replays

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BWChart

World of WarcraftLUA UI API

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Art Guides

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Development Blogs

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Post-Mortem of Campus Buddies

Development Blogs

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Post-Mortem of WarCraft

Developer Conferences

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Post-Mortem of Ochestrator

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... but don’t copy blindly!

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... but don’t copy blindly!

... but don’t copy blindly!

... but don’t copy blindly!

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There might even be cookies.

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Source: UTWeap_LinkGun.uc (August UDK 2010)

/** Holds the list of link guns linked to this weapon */

var array<UTWeap_LinkGun> LinkedList; // I made a funny Hahahahah :)

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