I asked every question I thought of, and Matt answered all of them, though as you’ll see, he did spin diplomatically in a few instances. There was no supervision, no PR oversight (not that Wonder Russel, Runic’s PR Goddess, has been anything but helpful in arranging past interviews), and nothing influencing the questions and answers other than citrus-infused vodka and late night housepet distractions. This interview was conducted via Gchat and arranged and executed entirely between Matt Uelmen and me. All three focus much more on his artistry than this interview does, since I’m not a musician and that’s not really my area of expertise. If you want to know more about Matt’s background and musical style though, I recommend this long interview with ShackNews, this one with GamaSutra, and this one with Square Enix. Since I didn’t want to go over familiar territory, I scrapped most of those questions. However, while researching I read over a few of the other in depth interviews he’s given in recent years, and saw that most of those issues had been covered. While typing up my notes pre-interview, I planned to get into more of Matt’s personal life, his musical development, his influences and background, and so on. I laughed out loud at a number of his comments, and not just the ones where he ignored my baiting and sarcasm to remain dignified and professional.
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I was surprised how professional and polished he sounded in many of these replies.) In our conversations we’ve got something of a personal rapport and joking manner, and while I cleaned up this transcript with spelling and punctuation fixes, I left in most of our joking asides and OT remarks to preserve some of the flavor of the dialogue. (Though Matt puts on a very moderate and politically correct tone when speaking on the record. Matt and I speak fairly often via email and occasionally in person, and we’re both smart asses. That quote was not even a drop in the bucket click through for the whole thing, presented in chronological order. The interview covers all of Matt’s professional projects, and it’s huge literally like 12 pages in the Word file I used to format and clean up the transcript.
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I knew the industry had to grapple with the challenge posited by EQ (much as the recreational drug industry had to grapple with crack in the 80s), and I wasn’t averse to joining the fight. Matt: WoW was definitely not a Blizzard North game, but I played a ton of it in 2002/2003. Did you have more hopes for D3? All along? Or you were happy to be part of WoW ultimately? IncGamers: Well it was a nice re-purposing, and you were probably happy it didn’t go to waste. Matt: Almost all of the music I made for D3 ended up in WoW, that should speak for itself. Did you think it would pull through? Still be a worthy successor? what was the mood? Project X shelved, everyone put to work on Project Hydra…. At the time, as one of the long time Blizzard north employees who remained…. IncGamers: That’s taking the long view indeed. Five years later, those events set up a great gig for me. Matt: Sure, but that was my personal reaction. The next big news from blizzard north was in 2003, and it was bad news. IncGamers: But that was all secret at the time too. And another reference to the true genius behind all of Blizzard’ s biggest hits, Allen Adham. I’d say that’s a good tribute to the way that Blizzard absorbed the pros and cons of the title in that era. Matt: Well, obviously WoW crushed EQ into tiny pieces on a commercial level.
IncGamers: WoW as just internal intervention in their Everquest addiction? That’s the more interesting story - the EQ addicts in the office in both halves of Blizzard at the time. Matt: Ah, if only everyone would clarify these things.
One long ago theory was that D3’s early design was an MMO and that was dissuaded by Bliz Irvine since they had WoW under work. IncGamers: So Bliz Irvine was busy at work on WoW. Matt: No, November 2004 It started development in ’99. It was obviously awesome, and, of course, ended up being the single most profitable entertainment industry title in history. That image is Allen Adham personally demoing an early version of WoW in San Mateo around the time D2 shipped. Let me counter with a more positive image. Matt: There are literally hundreds of moving parts there. IncGamers: Can you tell us about the early days of Diablo 3 at Blizzard North? Fans often wonder why it took so long between D2 and D3, and what happened in the 2000-2005 time frame at Blizzard North. Here’s a quote about the early days of Diablo II, just to give you a flavor for things.
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Incidentally, you can download the full Torchlight 2 soundtrack, from Runic Games, right now.
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