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Applying Blizzard's Core Design Principles to Create Genre-Defining Games

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In this talk, Allen Adham, Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer at Blizzard Entertainment, will discuss in detail the core design principles that Blizzard has used for 30 years to create award-winning games across a wide variety of genres. It is the secret to the designs behind WarCraft, StarCraft, Diablo, World of WarCraft, Hearthstone and Overwatch, among others. These specific principles provide a framework for thinking about game design in a way that allows new teams and new designers to consistently build world-class games that attract broad audiences across nearly any genre.

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