Inside Diablo Engine | Marcin Undak

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Join Marcin Undak, engine lead for Diablo at Blizzard! We talk about game engines and Blizzard and how they differ from other solutions like Unreal, as well as how to think of game production, and what should you do to get a job at a AAA game studio! :) Join us! Diablo IV Expansion - Vessel of Hatred! https://diablo4.blizzard.com/en-us/ Wookash Podcast Show links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-sciga Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7tExkDJcI6vvmpCguX8Ygd Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wookash-podcast/id1683109481 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9J9u3apteD0EuFjzRpt71w RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/dd7643a4/podcast/rss X: https://x.com/wookash_podcast 00:00 Highlights 00:40 How Did the Programming Journey Start? 04:17 CD Projekt Red and The Witcher II 07:19 Ubisoft and The Watch Dogs Series 09:45 Blizzard and Diablo IV 11:02 Current role and Day-to-Day Work 12:04 General Purpose vs. AAA Game Engines 16:16 Working on a Game Engine 19:56 Infrastructure and Processes - Big Games 22:52 What He Enjoyed Working On 23:56 Difficulties in Large Companies 27:24 How Often Does the Engine Change? 30:18 Non-Technical Complexity Made Easy 35:23 Different Stages of Game Production 39:09 Can the Engine Handle It All? 44:05 Upside of Fast-Paced Game Shipping 48:26 C++ and Scripting Languages 54:56 Performance in Diablo IV 01:03:48 Adding Features to the Engine 01:07:02 AAA vs. Indie Development 01:10:41 The Upside of AAA Studios 01:22:50 Will AAA Studios Use Other Languages? 01:30:44 Visual Studio Bad? 01:38:42 Where Should You Start?