The Diablo II Master: Source Code and Assets Fatally Corrupted
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Max Schaefer, Erich Schaefer, and David Brevik discussed at ExileCon 2019 a range of different topics. The panel moderator asked if they recall a scary moment during the development of Diablo II. The response was quite revealing. The Diablo II source code, a lot of the assets, and art assets were lost when the master copy became corrupted, and there was no full backup. Later, they could rebuild some portions from work on computers at home, but the history, source code, assets, and art assets are lost. He said Blizzard Entertainment will have a hard time recreating everything from scratch, as all that is gone.
The Diablo II Master: Source Code and Assets Fatally Corrupted
The Diablo II Master: Source Code and Assets…
The Diablo II Master: Source Code and Assets Fatally Corrupted
Max Schaefer, Erich Schaefer, and David Brevik discussed at ExileCon 2019 a range of different topics. The panel moderator asked if they recall a scary moment during the development of Diablo II. The response was quite revealing. The Diablo II source code, a lot of the assets, and art assets were lost when the master copy became corrupted, and there was no full backup. Later, they could rebuild some portions from work on computers at home, but the history, source code, assets, and art assets are lost. He said Blizzard Entertainment will have a hard time recreating everything from scratch, as all that is gone.