The game industry’s enthusiasm for eSports is clear as day, but what’s less clear for many game developers is how, exactly, you design and tune a game to be played competitively at a professional level for years at a time.<\/p>\n
Blizzard Entertainment did just that with\u00a0StarCraft II,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0at GDC 2011\u00a0Blizzard’s Dustin Browder took the stage to deconstruct\u00a0the game’s design and examine how its competitive multiplayer was tuned to serve the needs of a global eSports community.<\/p>\n It was a unique look inside Blizzard’s design process, and shed light on the development and maintenance of one of the world’s early eSports success stories. If you missed it in person, it’s well worth going back to\u00a0watch the\u00a0entire talk\u00a0for free\u00a0over on the official GDC\u00a0YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n In addition to this presentation, the\u00a0GDC Vault<\/a>\u00a0and its new\u00a0YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent\u00a0Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC, GDC Europe, and GDC Next already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via\u00a0a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the\u00a0GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>. Finally, current subscribers with access issues can\u00a0contact GDC Vault technical support<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent UBM Tech<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The game industry’s enthusiasm for eSports is clear as day, but what’s less clear for many game developers is how, exactly, you design and tune a game to be played competitively at a professional level for years at a time. Blizzard Entertainment did just that with\u00a0StarCraft II,\u00a0and\u00a0at GDC 2011\u00a0Blizzard’s Dustin Browder took the stage to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18823","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\/18823","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=18823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}