Hello!
- Liam is on the show this week
- Topic: the technical aspect of Hearthstone features
- Reasons to be happy this week
Who is Liam?
- History with card games
- History with Blizzard games
- Programming experience
What will the UI look like?
- Hearthstone will be on PC, Mac, and iPad
- Android is unconfirmed, but we’re hopeful
- Can the same UI be used for all of them?
- How difficult it is to adjust the UI for different screen sizes
- What each platform needs
- Could we see a phone version?
How long will have to wait for an Android version?
- Other card games’ dev cycles
- Kotaku article
- Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers
- Hearthstone’s dev team size
How big will the game be, and will that compromise the Mac/PC version?
- Size available on iPads
- Size of other card games, on PC and iPad
- Still concerned?
How will multi-platform accounts work?
- Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers comparison
- Multiple purchases?
- Multiple accounts?
- Shared decks?
- Apple store restrictions
Cross-platform playing
- General lack of cross-platform play in gaming
- Hero Academy, Dungeon Defenders
- Different languages used by the OSes
- The process of porting a game to multiple devices
- Android device disparity
- WoW cross-server tech
Card of the Week
He’s not very good at juggling if the knives keep hitting people.
Farewell
- Follow Liam on Twitter
- What you want to see in future episodes
- What hosts you want to visit the show