As posted by Karune (Blizzard Community Manager)
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A sign that Bashiok is starting to lean towards the “Karune”-way of bringing life to the Diablo 3 General Discussions community, but this one is from an over-bumped thread that caught Bashiok’s attention.
BTW for those who do not, Bashiok is the Community Manager for Diablo 3
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IGN: What do you do as the lead world designer, and what have you worked on in the past in that respect?
Leonard Boyarsky: As lead world designer I’m responsible for the lore of the game, the history, the story. I work with a quest designer named Michael Chu, who’s had a lot of experience in the RPG industry. We make sure that through the quests the story’s being conveyed to the player. We also work very closely with the art department to make sure - y’know, they’ll come to us and say to us ‘what’s going on with this civilisation or that civilisation, what’s the history?’ Because there’s a lot of ruins and building up on cities that have been around for a long time. So, building a world – the way we’re building this world – from the ground up and with a lot of history, really informs the art. And it’s a back and forth thing too, the artists will sometimes come up with really cool concepts and we’ll work that back into the lore. So that’s basically what we do there.
I started out as just an artist, and after that I was the art director on Fallout, where I was more the creative director, and really fleshed out that world in terms of the feeling of the world, the mood of the world, and then I progressed on that project to designer, and then, before leaving to start my own company, we designed Fallout 2. And then I started my own company with a couple of guys called Troika, and we made Arcanum and Vampire. I did way too many jobs on those games, from world design to animation, to texturing, to drawing, to concepting, to producing, but my love has always been the world creation part of it… and you’ve really got to choose. If you want to do it well you’ve got to pick your specialty, but it’s really great because I get to work with art directors like Brian [Morrisroe]… he’s really fantastic, and he wants to hear [what other people have to say]. Sometimes artists really just want to go in their own direction, but at Blizzard they’re really into the back and forth. Everybody has good ideas, so it’s been a really great experience.
read the full, 2-page interview here
New Diablo 3 Artwork and Leah Wallpaper <3
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