^ " 'I craved a bite-size experience': Ben Brode on the making of Marvel Snap". "Marvel Snap is a new card game from ex-Hearthstone devs". "Why you can't trade cards in Marvel Snap". "A Bunch Of Former Top Hearthstone Designers Are Making A Marvel Game". "Ben Brode's new studio is called Second Dinner". "Every Hearthstone expansion ranked by its theme song". ^ "Hearthstone's Ben Brode: "If you knew how good a card is by looking at it, we wouldn't need a balance team" "."Hearthstone lead designer explains why new Priest card is so bad". "Hearthstone boss Ben Brode gives me new insight on what 'casual' means". "Ben Brode's Second Dinner orders a Marvel license and $30 million from NetEase". "The unstoppable rise of Hearthstone's Ben Brode". ^ a b c d Winkie, Luke (31 January 2018)."Hearthstone game director Ben Brode is leaving Blizzard". In designing Marvel Snap, Brode said he was directly inspired by his experiences working on the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game and Hearthstone - he wanted to make a card game that was quicker to play and had a lower barrier to entry. The game, Marvel Snap, was first revealed in May 2022, for mobile devices and personal computers. In 2019 the company announced that it had received a US$30 million investment from NetEase, along with the license to create a mobile game for Marvel. Brode is the Chief Development Officer at the company. Īfter 15 years working at Blizzard, Brode left the company in 2018 to start his own game development studio called Second Dinner along with several other ex-Blizzard employees. When the Journey To Un'Goro expansion was released without an accompanying song, he recorded his own at the community's request. While working on Hearthstone, Brode was the public face of the game, giving interviews, responding to player feedback, explaining game concepts, and providing updates on the game's development. īrode became lead designer of Hearthstone in 2015, and was promoted to game director later in the year. Brode began looking for a new position at Blizzard, including applying for a position as a designer on StarCraft II, before finding himself in a creative position on the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. During his work testing these games he spent time making custom maps for Warcraft III, one of which became 'Map of the Week' and was released to the wider community. He was the game director and public face of Hearthstone until 2018 when he left to found his own game studio, Second Dinner, where he is now Chief Development Officer.īrode joined Blizzard Entertainment as a video game tester at the age of 20, working on Warcraft III and World of Warcraft, a position in which he worked for a total of 18 months before becoming Environment Test Lead. Ben Brode is an American video game designer.
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