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| 6s | What's up, everyone? This is Jeff from the Overwatch team. |
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| 9s | We're here with an awesome update. |
| 11s | This one's going to be a bit of surprise for you all, |
| 14s | because we have a brand-new feature coming to Overwatch, |
| 17s | and one that's really exciting to us. |
| 19s | So, the feature is called the Workshop. |
| 22s | And the Workshop is coming to the game browser. |
| 25s | Now, I know there's immediately a ton of questions about "What is the Workshop?" |
| 30s | The Workshop is a scripting mode |
| 34s | that will allow you to make custom game modes |
| 38s | within the custom game browser, |
| 41s | but also allow you to do really cool things. |
| 43s | For example, you could even prototype your own Overwatch hero using this system. |
| 49s | To give you a little bit of history about how we came up with this idea, |
| 54s | we have 2 amazing programmers, one by the name of Dan |
| 56s | and one by the name of Keith. |
| 58s | We gave them some free time to work on whatever they wanted. |
| 62s | And these 2 programmers were really familiar |
| 65s | with working with our scripting system that we use to make the game. |
| 69s | And they said, it would be super-cool |
| 72s | if we gave the players some of the power that we have as programmers |
| 77s | and as game developers to make whatever they could come up with, |
| 80s | wherever their imaginations would take them. |
| 83s | So Keith and Dan put a custom layer of interface |
| 87s | and a custom scripting system on top of the one that we use to make the game |
| 93s | so that all of you, on both PC and console, |
| 97s | can start creating your own game modes. |
| 100s | The system is really powerful and I have to warn you, up front, |
| 105s | this is more of what I would call a power-user feature. |
| 109s | The people, I think, this will speak to, most immediately, |
| 113s | are people with some experience with other scripting engines, |
| 116s | that are available publicly on the Internet, |
| 119s | or people with programming backgrounds. |
| 122s | Really, anybody who understands the logic of game-making |
| 126s | and how game events are chained together, will have an easier time creating things. |
| 133s | Now, Keith and Dan have done a good job |
| 136s | of making the feature as accessible to everyone as possible. |
| 139s | We also plan on putting a special forum up on the Blizzard website |
| 144s | that allows you to interact with us |
| 146s | and ask us some questions on how to use it. |
| 149s | But, you might be wondering about examples of some of the things that you could make. |
| 153s | And we're going to put some examples into the custom game browser |
| 158s | so, that way, you can open up modes that we've already made |
| 162s | and see exactly how they were made and start tweaking them yourselves |
| 165s | and adjusting different variables to have different outcomes. |
| 169s | One mode that's really fun, |
| 173s | and we look forward to seeing you tweak and do you own thing with, |
| 177s | we call the Molten Floor. |
| 179s | And in this mode, |
| 180s | any time a character is on the ground, they catch on fire. |
| 185s | So you imagine how fun a game mode could be |
| 188s | with characters like Pharah and Lúcio |
| 190s | who have the ability to stay off the ground. |
| 193s | You could make something really interesting and special there. |
| 196s | We see a lot of you trying to create modes like hide-and-seek in the game browser |
| 202s | and now you can make much more powerful versions of hide-and-seek. |
| 206s | We have a game mode that I just think is awesome |
| 208s | and we'll probably include in the Arcade at some point |
| 211s | called Mirror Deathmatch. |
| 213s | And Mirror Deathmatch, I think, is really fun. |
| 216s | What that does is, it's Free-For-All Deathmatch, |
| 219s | but every player in the map plays the same character for 1 minute. |
| 226s | So, for one minute we're all McCree |
| 228s | then the next thing you know we're all Hanzo |
| 231s | then it switches over and we're all Ashe. |
| 233s | So it's a much more balanced version of Free-For-All Deathmatch. |
| 238s | Something that I've read on the forums and in social media from all of you |
| 242s | is that you love Mystery Heroes, |
| 244s | but some of you would like to have a version |
| 246s | that you call Balanced Mystery Heroes. |
| 248s | And you've talked about |
| 249s | what if Mystery Heroes had a certain number of tanks |
| 252s | and a certain number of supports |
| 254s | so at any time the two teams were relatively balanced, |
| 257s | even though there were random heroes happening. |
| 260s | Well, with the Workshop you could create that exact mode now. |
| 264s | And you can decide. Do you want 1 tank, or 2 tanks or 3 tanks? |
| 268s | Or 1 support, 2 support? |
| 270s | It's really up to you. |
| 272s | And it's very easy, once you set up the mode, |
| 274s | to change some of those variables. |
| 276s | Now for those of you who are familiar with game logic and scripting, |
| 281s | or familiar with programming, |
| 283s | you'll know that as you're working on creating something custom like this |
| 287s | you often need to go through and find out why it's working or not working |
| 292s | just the way you intended. |
| 294s | And programmers in the audience will understand what I'm talking about, |
| 298s | when I say you need a debugger, |
| 300s | something to help you find any issues that you've created in your script. |
| 305s | Luckily, the Workshop is coming with what we call Workshop Inspector, |
| 310s | which is a custom debugger that will allow you to run your game mode |
| 315s | and it will report back to you why certain things are happening. |
| 319s | Or sometimes it's even more important to know why aren't they happening. |
| 322s | You expect a certain thing to happen and it's not. |
| 326s | We think that will be really cool, too, and really helpful for you. |
| 330s | One of my biggest hopes, I know this is a power-user feature, |
| 334s | and there's some technical knowledge needed to use it, |
| 338s | but my hope is that some of you |
| 339s | who have never gotten to play around |
| 341s | with creating game modes and creating game logic, |
| 345s | or maybe prototyping a hero, |
| 348s | this can be the first time |
| 349s | that you can open up one of the existing scripts that we have, |
| 353s | take a look at it in the Workshop, and start to learn how we made it. |
| 357s | And maybe, you'll realize that you, too, could be a game developer someday, |
| 361s | and you can make really cool stuff. |
| 363s | We're hoping that this opens up a whole new wide array of game modes |
| 368s | that the community is going to create. |
| 371s | And that there will be |
| 372s | some really fun stuff out there for all of you. |
| 374s | I also need to put this in the right context. |
| 377s | This isn't a map editor. |
| 379s | You won't be able to create custom geometry |
| 381s | or import art into the game that doesn't currently exist. |
| 386s | It mainly allows you to control the game logic behind game modes |
| 390s | and what's happening with different heroes. |
| 393s | But, trust me, it's extremely powerful and we expect you, |
| 397s | and are very excited for all of you, to do great things. |
| 401s | We hope you enjoy it. |
| 403s | All of the work that you create on the PTR, |
| 406s | is going to be able to be copied over using a share function that we're adding. |
| 412s | And the share function is really cool |
| 413s | because, previously, if you had a really good rule set in custom game, |
| 418s | it wasn't trivial to share that. |
| 421s | Now you'll be able to generate a code, and put that code in, |
| 425s | whether it's on PC or console. And it works on both of those. |
| 428s | And create this custom game all over again |
| 432s | that you've either gotten from somebody else or created yourself. |
| 436s | We're extremely excited to see what you all do with this. |
| 439s | We hope it opens up a whole new world of Overwatch to you all. |
| 443s | And we hope you love and enjoy the Workshop. |
| 445s | Thank you. |