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WarCraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans was a humorous in tone point-and-click adventure computer game under development by Blizzard Entertainment that was set in the Warcraft Universe. Russian company Animation Magic located in St. Petersburg was outsourced due to their experience in classical 2D animation to produce the 22 minutes of fully-animated sequences, the games artwork, the coding of the engine and the implementation of the sound effects. Blizzard then provided all the designs, the world backgrounds, sound recording and ensured storyline continuity. Four or five months after Blizzard had released Battle.net and Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal had shipped, Blizzard began development on a title that would be cancelled just over 12 months later. A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ...
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Tagline: "An adventure game in the World of WarCraft."
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 Promotional concept art released to advertise the game. The game takes place immediately after the events of Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal. The player's role was that of a 22 year old orc named Thrall who was raised by a cunning human lieutenant named Aedelas Blackmoore, who found him as a child. Blackmoore raised Thrall in his prison-fortress of Durnholde, as a favoured slave and gladiator. Blackmoore trained the young Orc to be a peerless warrior, and an educated leader in the hope of using Thrall to take over the Horde, and thereby achieve dominion over his fellow men. The player guides Thrall on an adventure through Azeroth firstly by escaping from Blackmoore’s fortress, then by journeying to human internment camps where his brethren are being kept. From their wishing to free his people Thrall seeks out the last undefeated Orc chieftain, Grom Hellscream. Seeking the truth of his own origins, Thrall travelled to find the legendary Frostwolf Clan. Thrall discovers he was the son and heir of the Orc hero, Durotan—the true chieftain of the Frostwolves who had been murdered in the wilds twenty years before where Aedelas Blackmoore found him. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (682x906, 138 KB)Promotional art for the unreleased Blizzard Entertainment game, Warcraft Adventures. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (682x906, 138 KB)Promotional art for the unreleased Blizzard Entertainment game, Warcraft Adventures. ...
Male and Female Orcs as seen in the World of Warcraft. ...
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During his travels, Thrall found the aged warchief, Orgrim Doomhammer, who had been in hiding for many years. Doomhammer, who was a blood brother of Thrall's father, is inspired by Thrall's passion and decides to follow the young, visionary Orc to free the captive clans and in the process gives his people a new spiritual identity. Thrall, with the remaining orcs, returns to Blackmoore's fortress to free the horde. During the liberation of one camp, Doomhammer falls in battle, and Thrall proceeds to takes up Doomhammer's legendary warhammer and don his black plate-armor, thus becoming the new Warchief of the Horde. Encouraged by his best friend and mentor, Grom Hellscream, Thrall storms Durnholde and defeats his surrogate father, Blackmoore, bringing the game's narrative to an end. Orgrim Doomhammer is a fictional character in the world of Azeroth in Warcraft, a game series by Blizzard Entertainment. ...
Some speculate that the impetus for Blizzard to "turn the orcs good" and rid them of demonic corruption in later games came from designing in-game events that would have exposed the player to the softer side of orcish personality.
Cancellation The game was originally slated for a winter (Northern Hemisphere) 1997 release, however the release date was pushed back until the end of 1998. This was a result of unforseen technical problems coupled with communication limitations between Blizzard and their Russian third party animation company Animation Magic, due to distance and language borders. Image File history File links Screenshots form the unreleased Blizzard Entertainment avdneture video game Warcraft Adventures. ...
Image File history File links Screenshots form the unreleased Blizzard Entertainment avdneture video game Warcraft Adventures. ...
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Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans had been in development for over a year: nearly all features, puzzles, and areas were in place, the voice acting had been recorded, and much of the animation was complete, yet Blizzard weren’t confident with their title. Blizzard hired Steve Meretzky of A Mind Forever Voyaging and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as a design specialist to help refine the puzzles and make them further cohesive with the narrative. Meretzky spent two weeks with the developers looking over the game for up to 14 hours a day, it was decided that sequences of the game had to be re-written which would involve, more animation and more dubbing. Steve Eric Meretzky (born May 1, 1957) was raised in Yonkers, New York and attended MIT to pursue a career in architecture. ...
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 Cinematic of Grom Hellscream taking command. However as the 1998 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Atlanta was approaching, Blizzard became increasingly aware that implementing the proposed changes would result in them being unable to meet their already extended 1998 deadline. LucasArts was gearing up to release their (competing title) Monkey Island III, and had announced their next title Grim Fandango sporting a 3D engine. In comparison producer Bill Roper felt WarCraft Adventures look dated; 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
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 | I think that one of the big problems with WarCraft Adventures was that we were actually creating a traditional adventure game, and what people expected from an adventure game, and very honestly what we expected from an adventure game, changed over the course of the project. And when we got to the point where we cancelled it, it was just because we looked at where we were and said, you know, this would have been great three years ago. [1] |
 | After over a year of hard work, press tours, magazine covers, and fan fervor Blizzard announced that WarCraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans was cancelled days before E3. Within hours of the announcement fans of the series formed an online petition, demanding the project be resurrected. On the 22nd of May 1998, Blizzard responded via their website; Image File history File links Quotation marks File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Blizzard Announcement - 22 May 1998 Press Desk: Blizzard Cancels WarCraft Adventures Blizzard wants to take a minute to respond to the Warcraft Adventures petition that is circulating on the Internet. First, we want to express our gratitude to the Warcraft fans that took the time to organize such an effort. We recognize that the cancellation of Warcraft Adventures has disappointed some of our customers, and we appreciate that they have shared their opinions with us. Secondly, we want let you know that stopping development was not a decision that was taken lightly. It was a hard call to make, but each of us knows that it was the right choice. The cancellation was not a business or marketing decision or even a statement about the adventure genre. The decision centered around the level of value that we want to give our customers. In essence, it was a case of stepping up and really proving to ourselves and gamers that we will not sell out on the quality of our games. And finally, we hope that Warcraft fans will consider our track record and trust our judgement on ending the project. The cancellation of Warcraft Adventures does not signal the demise of Azeroth. We have every intention of returning to the Warcraft world because there are still chapters to be told. We will keep you informed as we announce future Warcraft plans. Despite their press release, rumours still persist the game was cancelled due to projected low sales from the deteriorating market of the Adventure game genre. Image File history File links Screenshots form the unreleased Blizzard Entertainment adventure video game Warcraft Adventures. ...
Image File history File links Screenshots form the unreleased Blizzard Entertainment adventure video game Warcraft Adventures. ...
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Even though the game was cancelled Blizzard felt the story too important to ignore and hired an author to adapt the games story into a novel. The author (who still remains unknown) contracted to scribe it was unable to complete the book on time. Star Trek novelist Christie Golden was then hired to write the novelisation based on scripts and outlines provided by WarCraft universe co-creator, Chris Metzen and had to be completed within six weeks. The book was released under the title Warcraft: Lord of the Clans by Pocket Books and is considered canon by Warcraft enthusiasts. Warcraft: Lord of the Clans is the second novel based in the Warcraft Universe. Christie Golden is an award winning author, that lives in Denver, Colorado, USA. She has written eighteen novels and sixteen short stores in fantasy, horror and science fiction. ...
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Even though the game exploring Thrall's origins was cancelled, Thrall became a major character in Blizzard's subsequent games Warcraft III and World of Warcraft. Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, released by Blizzard Entertainment in 2002, is a real-time strategy computer game and the second sequel to Warcraft. ...
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Resources
 Thrall watching Aedelas Blackmoore. The project from conception to cancellation took over one year, over that time the following resources were used; Screenshots from the unreleased Blizzard Entertainment adventure video game Warcraft Adventures. ...
Screenshots from the unreleased Blizzard Entertainment adventure video game Warcraft Adventures. ...
- The cost of a small internal team for one year.
- Outsourcing the Russian animation house, Animation Magic that had over 100 artists and animators working on the project.
- Establishing a Boston sound team.
- Establishing a secondary sound team.
- Voice actors.
- Hiring Steve Meretzky as a design specialist for two weeks.
- Trade mark costs and advertising budget leading up to its expected release.
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Characters  Character designs for Thrall, Gazlowe, Nazgrel and Zul 'Jin. - Thrall played by Clancy Brown (of ER fame)
- Doomhammer played by Peter Cullen (of Optimus Prime, Transformers fame)
- Drakthor (the shaman) played by Tony Jay (of Disneys The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
- Zul 'Jin (Troll leader) played by Unknown
- Nazgrel (the shaman) played by Unknown
- Gazlowe played by Unknown
- Durotan played by Unknown
- Rend played by Unknown
- Maim played by Unknown
- Kargoth Bladefist played by Unknown
- Deathwing played by Unknown
- Additional Voices: Bill Roper 1
Note 1: Bill Roper produced the voices for all the characters in WarCraft and Warcraft II, however as primarily a producer he is not a union actor so was not allowed to be used for WarCraft Adventures. However they could legally use his previously recorded work sparingly throughout the game. Clancy Brown as Brother Justin Clancy Brown (born January 5, 1959 in Urbana, Ohio, USA) is an American actor best known for his role as the Kurgan (a. ...
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Game features Advertised features as listed in Blizzard Entertainments 1997 product catalogue; 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
- Dark intrigue and biting humor interwine as you come face-to-face with over 70 WarCraft characters.
- 60 Detailed locations set within the Kingdom of Azeroth.
- An all-star cast featuring the classic voices of Clancy Brown, Peter Cullen, and Tony Jay.
- Intricate, Hand-Crafted Animation
- Over 40,000 frames of feature-film animation from over 100 master animators.
Azeroth is a demon in Syrian mythology Azeroth is a fictional place in the Warcraft Universe; it has been the name given to a kingdom, a continent, and lately an entire world. ...
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