WP: I just love the idea of ‘The Blizzard Archives’. It was still amazing to see all these things, stories behind the game development and it definitely helped us to make good decisions going forward. We’ve literally been provided physical papers of drawings from the Blizzard North, and we sat down on the floor looking at early concepts of like, Baal, and then various monsters, even though some of it was an early reference that wasn’t even used in the final version. When we were approaching the art style we had a lot of concept arts and source files on certain models and things, so I spent lots of time organising a lot of these things that were for anything we could find.

I was quick to disbelieve that because, as a designer, I wanted to know as much as possible about this game, so I dug around archives and discovered a lot of source materials and lost documentation – even toolsets that were used to build the original game. WP: Well, you couldn’t remaster it if it was gone…ĪA: Exactly! As for other things that might have been lost – naturally with the remaster, when I first started on the project I asked around for …what did we have? And I was provided with ‘some’ stuff – which wasn’t much. WellPlayed: There have always been these rumours in far off corners of the Internet that it would be technically impossible to remaster Diablo II – people who originally worked on the game claimed that so much of the core data that drove the game went missing, is there any truth to this?Īndre Abrahamian: Well we’re happy to say we do have the source code – that’s how we’ve been able to patch the game a few times in the past and how we’re doing Diablo 2: Resurrected now! Luckily for me, I got the chance to have a very open chat with some of the talented folks sending us back to Hell, including Andre Abrahamian, Lead Designer on the project, and the always smiling Matthew Cederquist, a huge Diablo fan and producer at Blizzard Entertainment. Woe to the poor souls who need to remaster it, right? Very few titles could hold a candle to what it achieved, and while modern standards may weigh heavily on its crown – you can’t dispute that it has earned its corner of gaming history. Across all of gamerdom, Diablo II is considered a genre-defining masterpiece of its time.

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