Warcraft 3 Level Designer AMA | PART 1

David "DesignerDave" Fried answers questions Warcraft III fans have sent in about his experience working for Blizzard nearly 20 years ago. What was the original ending to Eternity's End like? Why is Curse of the Blood Elves such a unique campaign? Why does Tichondrius have a sheep? Dave answers all these questions and more in this new series!

Make sure to like and share this video. If this series gets enough love, we may get to hear from other Warcraft III developers as well!

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0:00 - Ask Dave Anything Part 1
3:28 - How much freedom do you have when designing levels?
5:18 - Were there plans for a second expansion?
6:55 - Post-Founding of Durotar campaigns?
7:08 - Normal campaigns vs RPG campaigns like Founding of Durotar
8:41 - Scrapped missions and story elements
11:08 - Was Jaina supposed to die?
11:22 - Original World Tree defense mission
12:42 - What new campaigns would you add?
14:58 - Missed opportunities
16:59 - The blood elf campaign technology tree
18:30 - Extra voice lines for campaign characters
19:19 - Tichondrius's sheep

[vaniellys]

I personally loved the Blood Elf campaign and its unique faction ! That's what I love about Warcraft III, it's all the the possible split-factions we can make with the editor ! When I was a kid, I spent hours making a Skeletons vs Wood Elves map, and I had so much fun !

[robertlupa]

"As soon as I saw Arthas was going to be slaughtering villagers, I'm like <<oh yeah, that's so me, I'll take this.>>"
Quote of the week. :D

[StormKnight]

"Due to recent events alot of people are feeling ~ betrayed" man :(
Dont hit me right in the feels, it hurts :C

But thanks for taking your time to answer these, you're a pretty cool guy.

[hmr]

"We did it for the players"
Words that are now taboo in the industry.

[SoApost]

The original idea of Illidan being a Satyr makes so much sense. All the other elves who sought power through Fel became Satyrs. Even if his intentions were different, why should that change the outcome?

[acolyte]

The creator of tichondrius's sheep: "haha I gave him a sheep" lol

[michaelvicente]

warcraft3 and frozen throne are still some of my favorite games of all time. I was very lucky to work with some of the people who created the game during my years at blizz and making some similar art on heroes of the storm but my biggest regret was that we never made warcraft4!

[Cloudshide]

To this day I've never played anything that did such a great job of portraying so many of the different factions as flawed and sympathetic. What a special game.

[Nightstalker]

"The Founding of Durotar" got me hyped for WoW.

[HeavenPiercer]

My friends and I quote that god damn blood elf engineer to this day. It was so out of place for one the haughty and regal elves to just be a blathering nerd but it was extremely amusing and memorable. Thanks for making a game that was such an important part of my childhood so fun.

[Toby]

This is gonna be the video series I didn't know I needed so badly. Nostalgia kicks in and i love it <3 Thanks for the effort to make this happen!

[placeholdername]

WarCraft 3 is special to me. The music, the menu screen etc.I had played it a lot in multiplayer at a friends house who had multiple computers (and only one license, heh) but never the campaign. I got into WoW and loved it, the lore etc. This was during Vanilla WoW. Hell, i still play it. My friends got into DotA, so i needed WC3 TFT. It was then, that i finally played the campaings of Reign of Chaos and The Frozen throne. I was blown away by how good it was, and how well it tied into the WoW lore etc. The journey you take with Arthas during the game was so cool

[Deolrin]

Such fantastic insights. Love Dave namedropping Mass Effect. An RPG on that level within the Warcraft universe would be a dream come true - of course, probably way too late for that now. Really looking forward for more and already going to watch the second video! Thank you so much, Dave and Abelhawk!

[rojaws]

I like the idea of a satyr character speaking like he is in a play by Shakespeare. The elven engineers lines are among the funniest in the game.

[ShadoSpartan]

This was fantastic, I loved hearing every bit of how this game was made

[ceradona]

This is genuinely very interesting and I can't wait for part 2!

[SamuelHauptmannvanDam]

As someone who played it for the first time when I was 12 and became quite involved in the community of DotA and in general has in immense love for what you guys created. Especially considering how huge the leap from diablo 2 to 3 was. It was and is one of the largest impact games of the last 20 years.

Tower Defence games, Mobas. Even Among Us can be traced to Dark Deeds a great custom map as well. The impact is almost infinite.

[comrademaper]

You guys just inspired me to push my campaign forward with more enthusiasm. Thank you!

[Sarkkoth]

Warcraft 3 was my favorite game growing up. It's what got me into PC gaming. I liked it so much at the time I wanted the whole Wow thing to be over with after vanilla so we could get back to Warcraft 4 lol.

[radimnechut]

23:15 That line seems to lack in many developers' interviews nowadays. It's like that line from D&D in the "about making" sections of one of S8 episodes: "She kinda forgot about it...". Yeah. Many developers tend to forget these details these times.