{"id":1999,"date":"2017-02-22T18:08:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T01:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/how-blizzard-distilled-overwatchs-hope-from-project-titans-failure\/"},"modified":"2017-02-22T18:08:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T01:08:44","slug":"how-blizzard-distilled-overwatchs-hope-from-project-titans-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/how-blizzard-distilled-overwatchs-hope-from-project-titans-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"How Blizzard distilled Overwatch\u2019s hope from Project Titan\u2019s failure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan says he thinks they did a good job capturing the feel of this very early concept art for Overwatch<\/i> in the final product. We have to agree. (credit: Kyle Orland)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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LAS VEGAS\u2014May of 2013 was not a very fun time to be at Blizzard if you hear Game Director and Vice President Jeff Kaplan tell it. After years of work<\/a> on Project Titan, erectile<\/a> information pills<\/a> the massive MMO that was to be Blizzard’s big follow-up to World of Warcraft<\/i>, the game had been unceremoniously canceled<\/a> (though official confirmation of that cancellation<\/a> wouldn’t come for another year). “For various reasons, we ran into a lot of trouble on the project,” as Kaplan put it on stage at Las Vegas’ DICE Summit today.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the cancellation, most of the 140-person Project Titan team was forced to relocate with Blizzard’s existing projects or put on “long-term loan” with those franchises. Forty of the remaining team members, however, were tasked with coming up with a brand-new, Titan-replacing idea in order to avoid the same ignominious relocation as their colleagues.<\/p>\n

After years working on Titan, they were given just six weeks to craft this new game concept.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Enlarge \/ Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan says he thinks they did a good job capturing the feel of this very early concept art for Overwatch in the final product. We have to agree. (credit: Kyle Orland) LAS VEGAS\u2014May of 2013 was not a very fun time to be at Blizzard if you hear Game Director and… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t