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shovelware25 karma

Hahaha! I love this question!

When we were initially playing through Act 3, we didn't have the visions of Azmodan at all. When we eventually got to Azmodan, we had gone through the act and encountered the siege breaker and the maiden of lust (who also had yet to taunt you before her fight), and folks felt like you were trudging along and eventually this boss fight comes seemingly out of nowhere and nothing in the story made it seem like Azmodan was a big deal (I mean, aside from that super sweet cinematic, but maybe that's just me). So I got a task to add in those visions of Azmodan all over the place, starting at the beginning of the act, and continuing on EVERY... DAMN... LEVEL... afterwards.

Now you shall never forget the Lord Of Sin.

shovelware16 karma

Assuming your millions also bought us the entire code base for Diablo 3, and for some reason Blizzard was okay with it, and that was the only thing we were working on... Yeah!

If any of the above are not true, there's not a chance. :P

shovelware14 karma

It was different at different companies. Mostly level design and UI design.

  • Diablo 3 : Almost the entirety of Act 3
  • Insomniac Games : Mostly UI design, some Mini Game Design, Level Design, and Scripting
  • Champions of Norrath : I worked on everything that wasn't abilities or UI, there was only 1 other designer, he handled all the big decisions.
  • EverQuest Next/Landmark : Designing ways to build that taught new players how to make things in 3D without being overwhelmed

shovelware14 karma

It's got a bunch of points behind it, actually:

  • It's motivation to not make a terrible game. I don't wanna make it too easy for reviewers to say "I should've known this would be terrible, I mean, look at who made it!"
  • On the same side, I hope people see it and think "Well, they obviously wouldn't call themselves that if they were trying to sneak us some crap."
  • It's kind of a joke about the fact that our first game could EASILY be misconstrued as actual "shovelware." I mean, we made a mobile game that has zombies, match-3, and tower defense... some of the most shovel-tastic elements that exist today. I'm hoping it comes across that we obviously put more thought into it than slapping some crap together and kicking it out the door.

shovelware13 karma

I think most things that I would change have already been changed. :D

I would really like to see abilities not so closely tied to armor & weapons. It would be cool if the abilities had their own items that modified how they worked, not just mechanically, but also statistically.