We spoke to the developers of Warcraft Rumble to learn more about its road to release and what's next for the mobile game.
Before he worked on Warcraft Rumble, its associate game director, Adam Kugler, did not play many mobile games.
Related We’ll see if the game can pull that off now that it finally got a wide release across iOS and Android today, which also happens to be during BlizzCon 2023. Ahead of its release, Digital Trends spoke to Kugler, as well as production director Jacquelyn Bacal Head — who joined the project just before it entered beta and has overseen its production through release — to get a better idea of what this Warcraft mobile game’s road to release was like.
“It’s something that we felt out through the duration of the project in terms of feel,” Kugler said. “We landed at that three-and-a-half minute, four-and-a-half minute max mark because it just felt correct to us.” The developers also aimed to ensure there was a lot of content to experience outside of the 75-level campaign. Dungeons and Arclight Surges provide recurring content, while Heroic Campaigns will recontextualize those already-completed missions to make them even more challenging.
The benefits of a soft launch This beta and soft launch process exposed the game to a multitude of players. Head explained that although this process did prove that Warcraft Rumble was an approachable game, there was a desire for a breadth of different features, so Blizzard expanded the number of solo and PvE modes on offer. Blizzard also tweaked specific modes like Arclight Surge to make them less overwhelming to new players.
Warcraft Rumble’s future Now that Warcraft Rumble is out in all regions, what’s next? Kugler tells us that in terms of evolving PvP post-launch, Blizzard will “prefer to change the board you play on” instead of focusing on constantly tuning and balancing minis. So, it’s more likely that you’ll see levels change or new match parameters to spice gameplay up rather than specific units getting buffed and nerfed as Heroes would in Overwatch 2.
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