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Are there any official "design documents", manifestos, interviews, anything of the sort released (or leaked) by Blizzard in terms of designing Warcraft III?
So I've been modding for several years off and on now, and what I've ended up doing (quite frantically these last few months) is what I've come to realize is trying to 'reverse-engineer' Warcraft 3. Basically, since I'm attempting to build custom races & heroes, I look at the existing heroes & races to try and detect patterns in how they were made, so that I can appropriately do similarly. However, while I've had much success, I've also run into a lot of walls; and honestly, I feel like I'm trying to re-invent the wheel and missing the "round".
Thus I ask; are there any sort of official (or unofficial) "design documents", manifestos, interviews with designers, footage, etc, that would give a hint as to Warcraft 3's design? Things like "why no economy heroes", or "why anti-turtling was added to the expansion", or "why generally 2 casters" or "why mostly AoE ultimates"... (I may 'know' some of those answers, just giving examples of the kind of questions) etc.
Thanks again.
So I've been modding for several years off and on now, and what I've ended up doing (quite frantically these last few months) is what I've come to realize is trying to 'reverse-engineer' Warcraft 3. Basically, since I'm attempting to build custom races & heroes, I look at the existing heroes & races to try and detect patterns in how they were made, so that I can appropriately do similarly. However, while I've had much success, I've also run into a lot of walls; and honestly, I feel like I'm trying to re-invent the wheel and missing the "round".
Thus I ask; are there any sort of official (or unofficial) "design documents", manifestos, interviews with designers, footage, etc, that would give a hint as to Warcraft 3's design? Things like "why no economy heroes", or "why anti-turtling was added to the expansion", or "why generally 2 casters" or "why mostly AoE ultimates"... (I may 'know' some of those answers, just giving examples of the kind of questions) etc.
Thanks again.
