Spelbarheten prioriteras högst i Starcraft: Remastered

Under den gångna helgen kunde vi rapportera att Starcraft: Remastered nu är officiellt utannonserat. Robert Bridenbecker (vice president of technology strategy and planning) och Pete Stilwell (senior producer of classic games från Blizzard har nu berättat lite mer om spelet i en intervju där de bland annat säger att gameplay prioriteras högre än grafik för att bevara originalkänslan:

"Maintaining gameplay is our first priority. The game is still built around the original graphics and gameplay engine; everything is still 2D. Collision and associated aspects that affect gameplay are still foundationally the same. We've just amped it up a bit to handle 4K."

De båda fortsatte sedan med att berätta om målsättningen för den nya grafiken och vad de hoppas uppnå:

"Our core objectives with the art were twofold: First was to maintain the original unit silhouettes and animations. We got feedback from players that the shapes and movements heavily influenced recognition during gameplay. Second was filling in the details in an authentic way. We talked to the original artists as much as we could to discover, 'what did you imagine those handful of pixels actually were?'"

Angående oron att de skulle ha förändrat designen för mycket, bland annat på enheterna, sade de:

"The shipped version will maintain the silhouettes and animations. The detail work was sometimes a bit tricky. Large units have a lot of flat pixels in the original. Seeing huge swaths of monotone on a Battlecruiser or many of the buildings didn't strike us as true to what the concepts and original artists intended.

We could have programmatically replaced the art if we were going for that type of effect. Instead, we tried to fill those spaces in with the style and details that matched each race."

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