That was part of our goal: To make things easy, so easy your mom could play it.”ĭave had cofounded Blizzard North as Condor, Inc., with Max and Erich Schaefer. “Every once in a while, Dave Brevik would shut his door and evaluate the game, and one of the ways he’d do that is play the game one-handed,” agreed Rick Seis, a programmer on Diablo, “and we’d make changes based on that. “Why is it so hard for developers to understand that the base core gameplay mechanic isn’t the leveling up or the item collection? It’s the clicking,” said Michio Okamura, the lead character artist on Diablo. Three top investment pros open up about what it takes to get your video game funded.
