Developer: Blizzard Entertainment
Release Date: January 12th, 2021
Platforms: PC, Playstation 4, Xbox One, Switch
Overwatch
As a way of learning the editor and tools when I joined the Overwatch team at Blizzard, I worked on a Deathmatch map; Kanezaka. The idea behind the map was to set it in the areas around the already existing Hamamura map, since is already a super iconic and cool setting but also since we would be able to reuse a lot of assets for the map.
The entire production of Kanezaka was driven by a team that has a lot of love for the setting, with a large part of the people working on the map actually having been to Japan.
Kanezaka was the first map which was made from start to finish by working from home on the Overwatch map, due to COVID-19.
