Game developer Blizzard Entertainment is planning to revive the company's classic games such as "StarCraft," "WarCraft III," and "Diablo II." In fact, the company has created a "Classic Games" division that will develop the games in a more robust and dynamic platforms, a report from Gamespot said on Thursday.
According to NeoGAF, the company has began the hiring process and announced an opening for a senior software engineer for the said games.
"We need engineers to help maintain our legacy games. We have a history of maintaining our games for many years. Our earlier games are still played and enjoyed today, so we want to continue to maintain them for those communities," Blizzard told Gamespot.
"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," the company said.
Blizzard says that reviving the classic games will eventually restore the game's glory. "We're restoring them to glory, and we need your engineering talents, your passion, and your ability to get tough jobs done," it added.
Listed below are the job responsibilites that Blizzard expects for the newly opened positions, according to the report.
- "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.
- Diagnose and fix all the things: crashes, deadlocks, overflows, heap corruptions, etc."
"It think it's fair to say that, World of Warcraft notwithstanding, this trio of games represents the pinnacle of Blizzard's power, during a time when it could do no wrong. And it's easy to forget just how long ago that was: Warcraft 3 is 13 years old, Diablo 2 is 15, and StarCraft is-yowzah-17 years old. That's positively archaic in video game terms, but it's also a testament to just how good they are that the prospect of updated releases is genuinely exciting," PC Gamer said.
