5th July 2008, 6:24 PM
As someone who comes close to being a Blizzardologist,Having played all their games including Warcraft Orcs and humans and always religiously followed every update on their website since grade school.
Starcraft originally was developed off the warcraft II engine, The first version of the game looks nothing like the finished product.
That is what the alpha build for Starcraft looked like when it was first unveiled.
The Alpha build was so horribly mocked and ridiculed, The producer was forced by the company management to overhaul everything and buy a new build kit off another company.
![[Image: Alpha_build_%28StarCraft%29.png]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/Alpha_build_%28StarCraft%29.png)
Its not a shock to me that starcraft II is based on the warcraft III build.
Diablo is different in that another 2nd party originally called Condor developed and created the series, The first Diablo was near release when the buy out happened and the game was rebranded under the Blizzard entertainment name but was the work of a 2nd party.
Starcraft originally was developed off the warcraft II engine, The first version of the game looks nothing like the finished product.
That is what the alpha build for Starcraft looked like when it was first unveiled.
The Alpha build was so horribly mocked and ridiculed, The producer was forced by the company management to overhaul everything and buy a new build kit off another company.
Its not a shock to me that starcraft II is based on the warcraft III build.
Diablo is different in that another 2nd party originally called Condor developed and created the series, The first Diablo was near release when the buy out happened and the game was rebranded under the Blizzard entertainment name but was the work of a 2nd party.