Parece que Blizzard está interesada en crear remakes de varios de sus juegos más clásicos, tales como StarCraft, Warcraft III y Diablo II, según se puede extraer de la oferta de trabajo que han publicado en su web.
Básicamente su idea es hacer más accesibles al público general estos juegos clásicos que hicieron grande a Blizzard Entertainment. Éste es parte del contenido de los requisitos del puesto:
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, CLASSIC GAMES
Compelling stories. Intense multiplayer. Endless replayability. Qualities that made StarCraft, Warcraft III, and Diablo II the titans of their day. Evolving operating systems, hardware, and online services have made them more difficult to be experienced by their loyal followers or reaching a new generation.
We’re restoring them to glory, and we need your engineering talents, your passion, and your ability to get tough jobs done.
So if you like wearing many hats, know small teams are the most effective, and look forward to challenges that will create millions of new adventures for our players: we would love to hear from you.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Make gameplay first again on modern operating systems.
Create conditions for experiences that look as good as they play.
Own implementation and curation of features new and old.
Combat hacking to improve multiplayer.
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Diagnose and fix all the things: crashes, deadlocks, overflows, heap corruptions, etc.