If you want to see how much has changed in StarCraft between the game`s launch in 1998 and the current remaster in 2017, try pressing F5 while playing. The default key for switching between the classic graphics version and the remaster, shows how much attention has gone into making the StarCraft remake feel like it belongs on your HD monitor.But what was it like bringing this game back to life? And what about a console or mobile version? Robert Bridenbecker, whose official title is VP of technology strategy & planning at Blizzard, and who`s been with the company since 1995, answered our questions about the game in a phone interview. And he even gamely responded to our queries about when we`re going to get that Warcraft 3 remaster (spoiler: it`s not something he can actually talk about).GameSpot: Could you briefly talk about part in the Remaster, and what kind of role you had in the original development of the game?Robert Bridenbecker: I run the classic games group, but it`s kind of been with me since the beginning. With the original game, at that time we were really so small that we all did a whole bunch of different things. One of my big focuses was rolling Battle.Net out into all parts of the known world. We were hot off the heels of Diablo, and we needed to expand the infrastructure--bring it into Europe and bring it into Asia. I was working on it back in the day as well.We`ve gotten other classic Blizzard games, or we`ve gotten access to them online. But why was StarCraft the first one that you guys wanted to fully remaster?There were a handful of things we looked at with some of our classic titles. It`s been almost 20 years now for StarCraft; while the game ran fantastic back in 1998, in 2017 we were just running into some real obvious hurdles. Not getting it to install, itīs buggy on modern operating systems, and you get palette glitches; just all the inconveniences of running something that is 19 years old on today`s hardware.We said, `That doesn`t feel l ...
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