Filed under: Lore, Know your Lore
Creative Development is one of those tough jobs that doesn"t seem that difficult until you really start to think about it. Creative Development is responsible for the world of Azeroth as we know it -- every story, every lore point, every moment of an NPC"s life is documented and written by the folks over in Blizzard"s Creative Development. Without the world, we wouldn"t really have a game to play, would we?
But it goes beyond merely writing the story as it stands today. The Creative Development team also has to figure out where the story is going in the future. Then they have to keep track of the miles of story that have already been written and figure out whether or not, in the context of what has happened already, the thing that they would very much like to happen can actually happen. If it doesn"t fit, they have to write it to make it fit. That"s where it gets tricky and devs have to start being clever regarding what they say, because anything that is said to players is set in stone as "this is something that in the story of the game actually happened."
Some players (like the guy in the video above, or -- let"s face it -- like me) are notoriously anal about keeping these facts straight, and when the story doesn"t line up with what they were told, these people are very, very quick to point it out. When you"re simply writing a book from beginning to end, you can catch these inconsistencies before the novel hits the printing press; when you"re working on an ongoing story like Warcraft, it gets much harder. Enter the Ask a CDev 2 thread, a thread created in February that didn"t get its answers revealed until yesterday, four months after the fact.
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Know Your Lore: The clever ins and outs of Ask CDev Round 2 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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