{"id":106252,"date":"2019-12-26T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/356134"},"modified":"2019-12-26T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T18:19:00","slug":"catch-blizzard-at-gdc-sharing-game-design-lessons-learned-from-15-years-of-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/26\/catch-blizzard-at-gdc-sharing-game-design-lessons-learned-from-15-years-of-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch Blizzard at GDC sharing game design lessons learned from 15 years of WoW!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blizzard’s 2004 classic World of Warcraft <\/em>is one of the biggest, longest-running, and most influential MMORPGs ever made, and attendees of the Game Developers Conference<\/a> in March will have a special opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at how its design has evolved!<\/p>\n

Blizzard’s own Ion Hazzikostas will be at GDC 2020 to present a special Design track<\/a> talk on “15 Years of ‘WoW<\/em>‘: Designing for the Very, Very Long Term<\/a>” which offers a rare look back at the evolution of this mega-popular game’s design.<\/p>\n

This promises to be a fantastic talk, especially if you work in or have any interest in live games, which have only become more and more common in the decade-and-a-half since World of Warcraft<\/em>‘s debut. Expect to leave this talk with a deeper understanding of the unique considerations and challenges that arise when a game’s lifespan stretches across many years, let alone decades, along with cautionary examples and insight into how Blizzard has approached those hurdles in evolving World of Warcraft!<\/em><\/p>\n

Next year GDC 2020<\/a> runs from Monday, March 16th through Friday, March 20th. This will be the 34th edition of GDC, and now that registration is officially open, you’ll want to take a look at the (ever-expanding) session schedule<\/a> and your GDC pass options<\/a> — register early to lock in the best price!<\/p>\n

For more details on GDC 2020 visit the show’s official website<\/a>, or subscribe to regular updates via Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, or RSS<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Blizzard’s 2004 classic World of Warcraft is one of the biggest, longest-running, and most influential MMORPGs ever made, and attendees of the Game Developers Conference in March will have a special opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at how its design has evolved! Blizzard’s own Ion Hazzikostas will be at GDC 2020 to present a special Design track […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}