Official box art design.,, Release Cancelled Mode(s) Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans was a under development by, set in the, and cancelled before its release. American company was out-sourced due to their experience in classical two-dimensional to produce the twenty-two minutes of fully animated sequences, the game's, the coding of the engine and the implementation of the. Blizzard provided all the designs, the world backgrounds, sound recording and ensured storyline continuity. Four or five months after Blizzard had released and had shipped, Blizzard began development on Lord of the Clans, which would be cancelled just over a year later.

Geoff Hamilton Cloche. Contents • • • • • • • Development and cancellation [ ] Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans was originally slated for a fourth-quarter 1997 release; however it was pushed back until the end of 1998. This was a result of unforeseen technical problems coupled with communication limitations between Blizzard and the Russian animators. The game had been in development for over a year: nearly all features, puzzles, and areas were in place, the voice acting had been recorded, and much of the animation was complete, yet Blizzard was not confident with their title. Blizzard hired, creator of and video games, as a design specialist to help refine the puzzles and make them further cohesive with the narrative.