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Plunderstorm Developer Retrospective - An Experiment Driven by Innovation
30.04.2024 - 18:17 / wowhead.com
As Plunderstorm has ended and set sail for fairer seas, Lead Software Engineer Orlando Salvatore shared a short retrospective celebrating the heart and innovation that went into creating the standalone event!
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Spanning just over a month, the 60v60 Battle Royale activity was an instant success!
Serving as a team lead on the goblin workshop that is Blizzard's secretive experimental gameplay group, Lead Software Engineer Orlando Salvatore shared his thoughts on Twitter today, detailing innovation and experimentation that went into creating the limited-time event, making it as streamlined and user-friendly as possible for both veterans of the game and new players. An activity marked by several firsts for World of Warcraft, there are things they may try again and others they may never do again, but the clear passion and excitement that went into developing Plunderstorm was visible for all to see.
Lead Software Engineer Orlando Salvatore
Thank you for playing Plunderstorm. Feedback was heard, Plunderlords have risen, fire whirls were nerfed, tournaments were conducted, W’s were shared.
We tried something new with this, and it’s been a hell of a ride.
Working on and releasing Plunderstorm has been a dream come true. Starting from an early prototype, to not knowing exactly how a BR would work, to changing how healing worked in the mode about a million times before it launched, a lot of challenges that we needed to overcome.
The energy that our peers brought to Plunderstorm while it was in development was next level.
We got so many great ideas and things changed around because of our internal playtests. Every discipline brought in their passion, from QA, to the design, to the music, to the engineering, to the art, to marketing, to many more involved. There was no shortage of good ideas thrown around.
The team working on Plunderstorm day to day was relentless, driven, and clearly cared about delivering a fun, quality experience.
We had many discussions about what else we could do to juice up the game mode.
Plunderstorm’s point of entry was an important one for us. Though some may have been disappointed they couldn’t use their main characters, the low amount of clicks needed, no previous content clearing required and Dragonflight not being required was an important goal of ours. We wanted anyone, no matter who you are or what experience you have, to be able to load into a Plunderstorm match.
No leveling needed, nothing. Just jump straight in and start playing.
There were a ton of first we tried with Plunderstorm. There are things we may do again, or may never do again.
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