Brawl: The Void Singularity
First Ran: November 29th, 2017
Rules: Constructed Deck. At the end of each turn destroy all friendly minions and create a “Singularity” minion with their combined stats.
Player Footage:Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1rfbx9tFEY
Background: This was actually the brawl I pitched to get the job I have now. I didn’t just pitch it, I made it using the Hearthstone development tool, playtested it, and iterated on it. I had made my first brawl before I was hired. Once I joined the team I set out on making it real.
Successes:
+ Players enjoyed the challenge of figuring out the best strategy for the mechanic.
+ Was a pretty simple idea that was easy to implement.
+ Was easy to re-run, as new cards would change the experience.
Lessons Learned:
- Learned a lot about the programming loop for Hearthstone, there were issues with Deathrattle cards I smoothed out in future launchs.
- This was around the time we put out Death Knights and Zombeasts so some players were expecting the card texts to also be combined.
