Read Diablo's Original Pitch Document

This is how history was made. David Brevik was one of the co-founders of Blizzard North. He was there are the very beginning of the Diablo series, and as part of a super slot GDC talk he made last week has uploaded a copy of the classic game’s original pitch document. It’s not long (at least n98 by today’s standards), and includes z16 ทางเข้า only one concept image of the game—showing its isometric viewpoint—but it’s still a very interesting read. It’s crazy seeing a game that would go down as one of the all-time greats have to explain itself like this!cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1766059905","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"culture","SECTION":"total-recall","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"total-recall","TAGS":"diablo","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Of particular note is this very early idea for how permadeath could be handled: I’ve posted the first few pages of the doc below, but if you want to read the whole thing, it’s available here Total Recall is a look back at the history of video games through their characters, franchises, developers and trends.