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Diablo: Original Game Development

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  • Presented by David Brevik, co-founder of Blizzard North
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David Brevik delivers a post-mortem on the development of Diablo, explaining how it evolved from a turn-based claymation game into an action RPG.

Original host: GDC Diablo developer David Brevik returns to the GDC stage to give a classic post-mortem on Blizzard's action RPG hit Diablo in this 2016 talk. Brevik shares key takeaways from the experience and sheds light on how the game went from a single-player, turn-based claymation DOS game to the genre-defining classic it became. GDC talks cover a range of developmental topics including game design, programming, audio, visual arts, business management, production, online games, and much more. We post a fresh GDC video every weekday. Subscribe to the channel to stay on top of regular updates, and check out GDC Vault for thousands of more in-depth talks from our archives. Follow us on Twitter twitter.com/Official_GDC Checkout our Facebook page for GDC exclusives facebook.com/GameDevelope... gdconf.com/ developed by:

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What people say. Highly recommended as a fascinating post-mortem of a classic game, detailing its design evolution and development anecdotes.

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…f the company, only for an empty office in the back which they're not using in return. But David was stressing out because they were about to ship Diablo, so he turned him down because he want no distraction, ..plus "it's the stupidest idea ever". And the company of Sabeer was called Hotmail. 14 months later the 10% would become $40 million... 0 link to this video…
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