Blizzard turned 30 yesterday. In honor of the anniversary, the company shares early concepts of its classic games, including WarCraft and Diablo, on social networks.Blizzard publishes archival materials in the official Twitter accounts of World of Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft and Overwatch under the hashtag #FromTheVault.
The company, for example, showed one of the first variants of the WoW user interface. If you compare it with the latest and even the release version of the project in 2004, you can see how much it has changed.
#FromTheVault: The World of Warcraft user interface dramatically evolved from its early tests. #Blizz30 pic.twitter.com/4CuFmNmjqB
— World of Warcraft (@Warcraft) February 8, 2021Blizzard also shared the first concept art of Diablo and Prince Albrecht by Chris Metzen.
The drawing is dated 1996.
This is how, for example, the early class concepts for Diablo looked like: warrior, robber and mage. The author of the images is the artist
Roman Kenney.
#FromTheVault: Warrior. Rogue. Sorcerer. The Nephalem had many forms before they sat around the campfire. #Blizz30
? Early Class Concepts
✏️ Roman Kenney pic.twitter.com/dDVcrVYbiu
— Diablo (@Diablo) February 8, 2021In the StarCraft account, the developers showed one of the first concept art by Jim Raynor, made by Metzen.
#FromTheVault: One of the earliest concepts of Jim Raynor and his vulture. #Blizz30
? Easy Rider
✏️ @ChrisMetzen
?️ 1997 pic.twitter.com/usS1fW0Ssv
— StarCraft (@StarCraft) February 8, 2021
#FromTheVault: Early looks at each of the three StarCraft races; Zerg, Protoss, and Terran. #Blizz30 pic.twitter.com/Otjfje4ONf
— StarCraft (@StarCraft) February 8, 2021In the official Blizzard accounts, you can find many other rare materials on the main franchises.
Now the company is preparing for the BlizzCon festival, which will be held online for the first time and will also be timed to the 30th anniversary of the studio.