New Series: Former Warcraft 3 developer David Fried answers questions on YouTube

[Abelhawk]

Hey everyone! It's my honor to present a new video collaboration series I'm doing with Warcraft 3 level designer David "DesignerDave" Fried. He took a bunch of (like, a couple hundred) questions from his own Discord and mine, and we'll both be releasing new videos on our channels over time where he answers them.

Most importantly, Dave has connections with legends like Chris Metzen and Tim Campbell. If these videos get enough attention, he may be able to convince them to do some kind of "20 year Warcraft reunion" AMA and answer questions of their own! So make sure to tune in and like and share these videos with everyone you know who's into Warcraft.

 

[Kam]

I’ve been looking forward to this!

 

[Deolrin]

That's incredible! So great that you have him onboard for this! Definitely gonna check it out later.

 

[_lycan]

I'll check them out

 

[Mr.Goblin]

AWESOME STUFF! I'll watch for sure! :O

 

[Kyrbi0]

Heck yeah, baby. Totally into this.

 

[sonphamthe11H]

hope they do a modern update, we dont need old crappy warcraft 3, we need a better one

 

[stein123]

Subscribing! wanna hear about that Reforged WC1 remake that was planned and then scrapped to oblivion

 

[Stefan.K]

Subscribing! wanna hear about that Reforged WC1 remake that was planned and then scrapped to oblivion

Wonder why there wasn't a word here about that. A thread perhaps about those "leaks"?

 

[Kasrkin]

Startin' now

 

[stein123]

whoa, these videos were really insightful, kudos!

 

[Bitterman]

Nice

 

[Archian]

Great stuff! Posted it on Hive's facebook and the Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne facebook page as well.

 

[A]mun]

Will share!

 

[Flinn]

Great videos!

 

[Abelhawk]

Thanks for your support! I'm hoping so bad that this leads to an AMA with Tim Campbell or Chris Metzen or any of the other developers. We'll see!

 

[tillinghast]

all my hopes and dreams shattered

 

[Deolrin]

all my hopes and dreams shattered
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Wow! Good to know though. I wonder if absolutely everything in those builds was nothing but a show. I'm curious about stuff conceptually also. After all, some models were made (Orc "Knight" / Warlord, Human Knight with a mace, Hero Abomination...) and later repurposed. It's quite interesting.

I'm curious if Samwise can ever show up in one of these. I doubt it, right, because he's still with Blizz I guess.

 

[Bitterman]

all my hopes and dreams shattered
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Meanwhile, Total Annihilation had witchcraft to run many 3d units at the same time in a small map, and then you had Dark Reign 2.

This makes me doubt of Blizzard Graphical and Engineery Skills as hire the first idiots leaving irvine college and UCLA and they got the cheapest ones for a penguin and a free visits to the nudie bar.

 

[Rui]

Loved it @Abelhawk when will more videos be coming? If there are more videos than those two, I missed them.

 

[Mashira]

Cool stuff!
Does anyone know more developers like Dave that are active online (and create content) and worked on Blizzard's games in the past?

 

[Abelhawk]

Parts 3 and 4 are out!

 

[stein123]

"let Blizzard go"

 

[Kasrkin]

Already fucked by 2008 but we knew that, I remember people freaking out about the merge back then and others saying nah bro calm down. Then Wrath came out and it was obvious it wasn't done, then Cata wasn't done either and was just a mess.

These videos have reminded me again that many modern games have likely taken their ideas from mods and custom maps. I'm still 95% sure that the battle royale/survival map design or at the least the most common one used is from the console version of Far Cry. Jumping out of a plane made out of many scenery pieces onto a series of small but interconnected islands with waterways in between them. And the predator jumps out of the plane last to chase you down and kill you.

 

[Deolrin]

Episode 4 went hard. Didn't expect the Blizzard drama, esp. with Kaplan. Kind of worried about the chances of other developers coming in now. Nevertheless, Dave is awesome and I love his insights, hoping to see more episodes.