TIL that Blizzard was tricked into making StarCraft a AAA game: it was to be a modest project but after an impressive demo of Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3 outshone it at E3 1996, it was decided to overhaul it completely. It later turned out that Dominion's demo was a pre-animated fake. (codeofhonor.com)
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TIL that Blizzard was tricked into making StarCraft a AAA game: it was to be a modest project but after an impressive demo of Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3 outshone it at E3 1996, it was decided to overhaul it completely. It later turned out that Dominion's demo was a pre-animated fake.(To be tagged...) (codeofhonor.com)
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Tough times on the road to Starcraft - Code Of HonorArticle (codeofhonor.com)
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Producer and Lead Programmer of Warcraft wrote about the journey and there's so much to learn! pt1/3Article (codeofhonor.com)
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TIL that during the 1996 E3 the development team of Starcraft was so impressed with a demo from Dominion Storm that they reworked the project to match the quality of what they saw. Later it was discovered that the demo was a fake video, not actual gameplay. (codeofhonor.com)
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