Friday, 11 September 2009

Blizzard assesment 1

Blizzard entertainment

• Blizzard entertainment was started in 1991 under the name Sillicon & Synapse

• In 1994 the company became Blizzard Entertainment Inc before being acquired by distributor Davidson & Associates. Shortly thereafter, Blizzard shipped their breakthrough hit Warcraft: Orcs And Humans. Blizzard went on to create several successful PC games, including Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo series, and the MMORPG World Of Warcraft.

Key stages

• Art producers begin by making short sketches of areas creature and characters and from these images they begin to create a story. Once the story is formed the animators and game developers begin to start basic structures of the game. After which they add music and more detail and create a beta version so the developers can make a character interact with the new land.

• Gaming differentiates itself from most media products due to the fact you can interact with with everything around you. You can also create characters and surroundings in a game to personalize your surroundings.

• Blizzard is a huge company creating the biggest online games in the world

• The jobs you can find as part of Blizzard are animator , games developer , accounting , finance and many more

• The sources that I used are
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

• http://www.blizzard.com/us/

• www.youtube.com

• I found the images searching threw Google images

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