Diablo III Artwork Set
- Scribbled on August 4th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Interviews, PC, RPG
For all of you who’ve been signing the petition to make Diablo III “darker” - tough noogie. Lead designer Jay Wilson has told MTV Multiplayer that the artwork is set.
“There’s no going back now,” he said during an interview in a Manhattan hotel where Blizzard was showcasing their newest games. “We’re very happy with how the art style is. The art team’s happy. The company’s happy. We really like this art style, and we’re not changing it…”
…When Wilson joined the project two and-a-half years ago, the game was similar-looking to what fans of the old games might expect — darker, desaturated and a lot of brown and gray tones. However, translating the game from 2D to 3D with a dark color palette didn’t make for the best gameplay experience. The first and second iterations of the art direction had a “modern, gritty look” but made it difficult to distinguish enemies from the environment. “When you have 30 creatures on screen — and four or five different types — target prioritization is a factor,” he said. “You need to be able to tell those things apart fast, and you can’t do that when your world is gray and your creatures are gray.”
The interview does confirm what I suspected, though: Diablo III has been in development for a long, long time.
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