Derek Sakamoto is a former Senior UI Designer on the Team 5 Hearthstone development team. He is featured in the credits card of the same name.
During or before November 2022, Sakamoto left Blizzard and joined Moonshot Games.[1]
Credits card[]
Career[]
In March 2015, Sakamoto had been at Blizzard for a little over 12 years.[2] His first job for the company was designing the UI (user interface) for World of Warcraft.[2] He worked on WoW for 6 years, from Vanilla through to Wrath of the Lich King.[2]
Trivia[]
- Sakamoto is responsible for suggesting the ruby eye bonus feature for the Naxxramas battlefield.[3]
- Sakamoto is behind #FlavorTextThatMissedTheCut, a series of Twitter messages sharing humorous unused flavor text for bosses from the Curse of Naxxramas adventure.
Gallery[]
 Derek Sakamoto |
 Sakamoto, hard at work |
  Credits card artwork |
References[]
- ↑ Derek Sakamoto on Twitter. (2022-11-10).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 How Blizzard's Warcraft Brought Hearthstone to Life - GDC 2015. (2015-03-04).
- ↑ John Zwicker on Twitter. (2014-07-23).
External links[]
- Selected media