Blizzard says designing a StarCraft open-world shooter presents specific challenges in scale and perspective — 'If you're 10 feet tall and you're wearing something that weighs 1,000 pounds, doors are a challenge'
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Reimagining StarCraft as an open-world shooter forces Blizzard to solve for embodiment and scale—how a 10-foot, 1,000-pound character navigates mundane objects like doors. The lesson for any immersive product: physical plausibility and interaction design at the micro level often determine whether a grand IP shift actually feels coherent to users.
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