#Starcraft remastered art pro
#Starcraft remastered art code

That's something that we're very careful about. That was the sort of thing that really brought meaning to the project.Дo you worry that upgrading the way the game looks might change the way the game is played, even though the core rules of the game are intact? This is an opportunity now for those kids to come back and experience what their parents experienced for the first time. In particular in Korea you meet parents who have been playing this game since they were teenagers. I think that it will be a way for people to gently introduce themselves into the StarCraft universe. On top of that they've got matchmaking on the multiplayer side so you can find someone of your skill level. Now they've got the remastered campaign which is going to be much more accessible than it was 20 years ago. For me, I think matchmaking is a great opportunity for new players to explore StarCraft. I'm terrible at it but I've been enjoying it for 20 years. I've been playing StarCraft for 20 years. As I said before I'm a fan of both games. I think StarCraft and StarCraft 2 are distinct games, and they have their own feel.

What does StarCraft 1 have to offer new players who are perhaps used to StarCraft 2 and other modern RTS games? And of course we're able to talk with a number of people who were involved with the original game, so that was really useful in realising their original vision. We didn't have to go far I guess to figure out what the original vision was. For example the art director on StarCraft: Remastered was an artist on the original StarCraft, and heavily involved in that. We actually work with people on the team who were on the original team. One of the very lucky things about Blizzard is that we have colleagues that have stayed for such a long time. How did you go about creating that new art for the game, did you go back to the original artists or did you have to interpret their intentions? It's pretty cool to be able to zoom in and see the features of some of these units. Now we've been able to realise that 20 years later because we have so many pixels to work with. That's an example of where there was obviously an original vision for there to be a guy in the missile turret, but I don't think anyone knew for sure whether there was or there wasn't. For the last 20 years it's just been a collection of pixels. I remember at the launch of it they zoomed in in observer mode into the guy on the missile turret and you can actually see the guy in the missile turret. The move up to 4K means you can fill in details in the game that weren't previously visible. What we tried to do was work around the edges and put a fresh coat of paint on top of the existing game, so all these features that we've added have all been around the outside, and as much as possible we've kept out of that core gameplay code.

#Starcraft remastered art code

So we haven't touched gameplay, that code is still there, it's still the code that's been running for the last 20 years.

#Starcraft remastered art pro

We didn't want to upset the apple cart with the community and the pro players. StarCraft after 20 years is this very finely balanced meta that we didn't really want to get involved with and change. Even things you might look at and say 'that's a bug', the community has come to understand that as not a bug anymore, and they're using that to get ahead in the game. This is gameplay that's been there for 20 years. So one of the tenants we had with StarCraft was not to change the gameplay. Did you have to rebuild the game significantly to support the improvements, or was it a matter of adding to the existing code?