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

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. Unlock the podcast version of our interviews, The Deepest Dive, and more by supporting us on Patreon! 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