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Had its peak in '83 and '84, much like the 2600 had its peak around the The golden age of coin-ops, because in a lot of ways the coin-up world So that was definitely my firstĮxperience with that, and I got to see the. My first console was an Atari 2600 when I Matt Uelmen: I was born the exact summer that Pong the first bigĬommercial video game, back in the early 70s. Shack: What was your relationship to gaming back then? Did you play a lot of games growing up? It's kind of sad, because weĪll like to think we can go back when we're older and relearn these Someone that's really excellent in something, there's a good chance Habit of working on it when you're just six or seven. To be good at something, you really do have to start getting in the It's kind of depressing how true it is, but if you're going But I did enjoy them,Īnd as I look back now, getting lessons in scales and basic theory andĪll that was really, really good for me in terms of making it feel Matt Uelmen: No, it was just something that was there, because my sisters were both You were made to do, or something that you wanted to do? Shack: I read that you took piano lessons at age six. Perfect pitch, and she played in church for a long, long time. I had an aunt that passed away a few years ago who had Matt Uelmen: You know, neither of my parents are musicians, but all five members of my immediate family can play a piano keyboard, so it's a pretty Shack: When you were growing up, were either of your parents musicians? I'm near downtown LA, but I'm actually in the San Gabriel valley. Shoestring, which is a part of LA that was more or less claimed by theĬity really aggressively about a hundred years ago, to connect to the Pedro-mispronounced Pee-dro by the locals-is technically in the city

Inbetween Palos Verdes and Torrance and San Pedro. I grew up in a town called Lomita, which is sandwiched Now, you grew up in the LA area, is that right? I wanted to go over a little of your background before we get to Blizzard and Torchlight. Matt Uelmen: But yeah, I'd love to do a real interview. I managed to put 850 minutes on it because I was on conference calls for hours.

Matt Uelmen: Sure, as long as I don't torch my cell bill as much as I did when I was working with the actors last month. Shack: Well, if you have the time, I'd like to sort of span your career with

I mean, people are going to be playing in two weeks. We're down the stretch to our final week. I had some leftovers that were decent, so things are goingĪlright. In this lengthy ten-page conversation, we cover Uelmen's entire career: the early days at Blizzard North-a company first known as Condor-to the tragic 2003 breakup of the studio his years at Blizzard Irvine spent contributing to the music of World of Warcraft and his exciting new gig at Runic Games.

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The team at Runic Games-a start-up founded by former Blizzard North icons Max and Erich Schaefer, Peter Hu, and Fate designer Travis Baldree-is currently readying to release a new action-RPG, Torchlight, on Tuesday.Ī budget-priced game in the style of Diablo, Torchlight is the first step toward a full online effort for Runic a bold new venture, and a perfect opportunity for an interview. However, after contacting Blizzard that summer, they told me that Uelmen had recently left the company, and I feared that he'd permanently moved on to other endeavors.īut after a short break from game development, Uelmen and many of the key figures once involved in the Diablo franchise have come full circle. I originally set out to run a tribute to the Diablo scores in 2007, a little over a decade since the release of the first game. He's a humble, multi-talented guy, who can both conjure sound effects out of thin digital air and compose symphonic scores by hand. Rather than attempting to mimic a marketable Hollywood ideal, his music is trademarked by live recordings and eclectic instrumentation.

A time when the art form was just becoming capable of wonders like online multiplayer and CD-quality sound, but still felt personal, hand-crafted, intimate. That music is evocative of late-night looting and hushed duping of our old friends The Butcher, and his pal King Leoric of Fallen Ones, and Godly Plates of the Whale, and a peg-legged jerk named Wirt.īut it's also evocative of an entire era, of a time when games were exceeding our expectations in leaps and bounds.

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It's probably fair to say that no sound was more burned into the minds of late-90s PC gamers than those first few gothic guitar strums. There's something magical about that aggressive opening chord of Diablo.

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