But when you look at the style of game that Diablo is, it is based around a lot of random content. That's sort of at the periphery of our discussions at this point.īlizzcon 2009: Slashdot: Speaking of the artistic side of the house, are you looking to leverage your community for artistic injections into the Diablo III universe, like custom levels, modding, or even total conversion mods that just utilize the Diablo III engine? Leonard Boyarsky: We discussed that early on because Starcraft II is doing so much modding support. Kevin Martens:At this point, we're knee-deep in just making the game. Leonard Boyarsky: Yeah, we're not going to put in things that, 'Oh my God, you can never mod this!' If somebody comes along and makes this great editor and makes this great mod. Kevin Martens: We're certainly not opposed to modding it. But we're always looking at what the end users might want so we did look at including a map editor and we just said that it's never been a big part of Diablo. And, on top of that, the fact that it's so random it's like, would people just change the random number generator? You know what I mean? We don't hand-build our dungeons anyways, but the way we build our maps kind of makes that prohibitive.

Is there any thought towards modding going into this or even map editing? Have you guys thought about including a map editor? Leonard Boyarsky: We talked about it early on and we considered it but the way we put together our maps and the fact that it's random. Blizzcon 2009 Joystiq Interview: Diablo has never officially supported modding although they haven't really banned it.

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