I’ve always been fascinated by things like concept art and early screenshots of my favorite games. These provide a really neat and often rare glimpse under the hood – a look at the humble beginnings of worlds I’d later spend so much time in.
A couple of us on Twitter got a treat earlier when a Blizzard employee decided to share some fantastic behind-the-scene screenshots with us, and they absolutely 100% made my day.
“This is the earliest existing screenshot of World of Warcraft using the Warcraft III engine.” #WoWHistory pic.twitter.com/wVRBBeP8aP
— Dave Wilson (@gopherstick) June 7, 2015
“The first character select screen built by Aaron Keller. Originally World of Warcraft had only 6 races.” #WoWHistory pic.twitter.com/Dc3swmI47p
— Dave Wilson (@gopherstick) June 7, 2015
Proto-Outland. “Originally Outland was to be a zone that shipped with the original World of Warcraft.” #WoWHistory pic.twitter.com/9scKeMEKAX
— Dave Wilson (@gopherstick) June 7, 2015
These are just three selections I picked that I especially liked, but I highly recommend heading over to the Storify I made and checking out all of these. A huge thank you to Dave Wilson for sharing this stuff with us!