There’s a couple points in the game where we ask the player to make a left or right choice, and there’s no going back. GI: Is it possible to miss certain characters or story events depending on how you tackle missions?ĭB: It is possible, but you would have to do it on purpose. It’s the stuff that happens in and around the middle that’s up to you. The way you go through it is up to you, but you will experience the same beginning, middle, and end as everybody else. I don’t want to say that the plot is non-linear. There’s definitely a beginning, a middle, and an end that you will experience that is linear. How does this affect the tight linear storytelling that you had in the first StarCraft?ĭB: It’s still something we obviously want to continue pursuing because we want the game to begin in one place, and since we’ve got games to come after this one (not to mention books, graphic novels, and all the rest), we want the game to end in a consistent place as well. GI: I’m really curious to see how this works in practice, but I was nervous when word broke that the Terran campaign will be non-linear, allowing you to choose mission at will. We haven’t been doing that much work on multiplayer during that time. We’ve been focusing the design on the solo play experience pretty tightly for the last six months. If the solo play experience is going to be in the box, it needs to be the best possible solo play experience that we know how to do. But ultimately the exact numbers don’t matter to us that much. We know that those numbers, I guess they could be playing Skirmish, but they’re probably playing the single-player campaign. I have heard - and I don’t know if this is true - that as many as half of our players don’t log on to. We know that a decent percentage of players never log on to. How much of your audience would you estimate is more interested in the single-player content? How much of a focus is that for you guys?ĭustin Browder: It’s hard to know.
Game Informer: In our magazine preview, we focused on the competitive multiplayer and features, but I’m really into the single-player narrative stuff personally. We talked about where the races and characters of the StarCraft universe stand at the beginning of this new game, how long it takes Blizzard to create a single campaign mission (and how often they throw them out), and how they’ll be trying to pull crappy players like myself into StarCraft II’s multiplayer. With that in mind, I gave StarCraft II lead designer Dustin Browder a call.
“But wait,” you cry, “that issue also had a preview of Blizzard’s other upcoming hotly-anticipated sequel, StarCraft II! That deserves an interview too!” Had you in fact cried as such, then I must admit that you are correct. Earlier this week, we posted an interview with Diablo III’s game director as an online extra for our preview of Diablo III from issue #199 of the magazine.
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