Eric Dodds Email & Phone Number

Eric Dodds is a Excited about Design. Happy to Help. at Self Employed. Colleagues describe them as "Twenty years ago, when I was skimming various World of Warcraft design docs looking for ideas for communicating about the game in Blizzard's public messaging, it was Eric Dodds' name that I saw as the author and/or last editor on many of them. Years after that, I remember when Eric was down in the Blizzard cafeteria surveying WoW TCG players on their card-gaming experiences, asking insightful questions . . . and only later would I discover that he was at that time working on the design of Hearthstone. I don't know Eric's full background other than that he also helped out with multiple games in the StarCraft and Diablo franchises, but what I do know is that he's a kind, soft-spoken, unassuming, and extremely insightful and creative designer whose ideas played a huge part in defining the "Blizzard magic." After seeing what he's achieved in his career, I know that any game Eric has worked on is a game I'm going to buy. I appreciated being able to work with him for so many years, and to occasionally talk shop with him about RPGs, and I hope that wherever he ends up in the future, he's entrusted with the resources and support necessary for creating that next great, genre-defining game." and "Eric is one of those people who toil hard on deeply thinking though games and how they are built to craft the foundations others take for granted. In the years I worked with Eric, I was consistently impressed with his broad perspective and awareness of the consequences of design decisions. His ability to set aside the more popular elements of the game and take ownership of difficult, challenging and overlooked systems occasionally meant less experienced developers took this for granted. However, in my eyes it always set Eric apart as a superpower who understood what mattered and ultimately set up World of Warcraft and Hearthstone for success. "