Thread by @pshenk

In the next few (weeks? months?) I plan to tweet through my history at Blizzard North on Diablo II & LoD. Mainly work I have 1st hand exp with but probably some personal memories FTTT. Feel free to AMA & I’ll do my best.
Pls follow if you’re interested & RTs are appreciated :)

I’ve been wanting to do something like this for a long time. With D2 interest rekindled due to the upcoming Diablo II Resurrected (very stoked for that!) now seems like as good a time as any. I’ll be using #D2memories so others (devs & fans) can add to the project.

My goals are:

1) Game archeology from maybe the biggest, last, most ambitious sprite game before 3D took over. The team came up with a lot of tricks to push 2D about as far as it could go with the technology of the time.

2) Behind the scenes look at the process for making the character art. I’ll get as technical & detailed as you all want but I hope to at least show the original sketches, models & animations that I created and have access to, and get into some of the pipeline.

3) Behind the scenes for non-art projects I was involved with especially the Diablo “world bible” & initial LoD game design. There’s a lot of interesting things that happened during this time that set the stage for the Diablo universe and D3.

4) Hopefully provide an entertaining peek into what it was like to work in games 2 decades ago. Much has changed (a lot for the better) but it also feels like a rare magic period that I think back on fondly :)

#d2memories and tag folks I've missed :)
@davidbrevik @mediumclawboy @davidtglenn @MaxSchaefer @roguehireling @BillRoper