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A duo of ex-Diablo and StarCraft developers are heading up a new studio and starting work on an RTS game. The studio is called Uncapped Games, and it s being backed by Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent under its Lightspeed and Quantum Studios subsidiary.
Uncapped Games lead game designer David Kim worked on all three chapters of StarCraft 2 and more recently, Diablo 4, while lead producer Jason Hughes has producing credits on Diablo 3 and 4. Zhongshan Zhang, another Blizzard alum who was a programmer on Starcraft 2, is also helping Uncapped Games as lead engineer.
For now, the studio is dedicating its resources to creating the next great PC RTS, and with Kim leading the charge, Uncapped Games definitely has the right credentials. The StarCraft veteran told GamesIndustry.biz that a new RTS game has been a long time coming.
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In recent years, a stream of developers and executives from top video game publisher Blizzard have left to create their own studios, seeking the creative freedom and autonomy they feel is no longer possible at a company chasing mega hits.
Ex-Blizzard devs making RTS game that “feels like an evolution” of Warcraft 3 and StarCraft 2
We don’t know much about the upcoming game from Frost Giant Studios, but the team’s sights are high. One of the co-founders, Tim Morten, former production lead on Blizzard’s StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void, says the RTS game will build on what’s come before.
“We very much want to build a game that feels like an evolution of Blizzard RTS games,” Morten told Op Attack, “but our influences will include Warcraft III, Broodwar, and StarCraft II. We expect to be as different as those games are to each other.” Frost Giant was founded by Morten and Tim Campbell, who was campaign lead designer on Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne.