MinnMax Interview - Frost Giant’s Mission To Revive The RTS Genre (Patreon)

MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews Frost Giant Studios' CEO/production director Tim Morten and game director/president Tim Campbell to talk about leaving Blizzard and joining forces to create a new RTS game inspired by StarCraft 2 and WarCraft 3.

Watch and share the video version here - https://youtu.be/vp6CAOBjU0Q

To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:34 - Their game development history

00:03:36 - The hype about Frost Giant's RTS

00:06:59 - Is this StarCraft 2's spiritual successor?

00:11:33 - What state is the game currently in?

00:17:28 - Blizzard design process versus Westwood

00:25:52 - The evolution of StarCraft 2 (free-to-play, co-op)

00:31:40 - Frost Giant's RTS campaign

00:35:31 - Collaborating with Michael Morhaime's Dreamhaven

00:39:56 - The new batch of ex-Blizzard studios

00:48:31 - The origins of StarCraft 2

00:50:18 - Working with Ed Fries

00:53:04 - Tim Campbell's wild career

00:56:34 - Tim Morten on God of War's development

01:01:10 - The new game's setting mystery

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