Yong Woo is a Blizzard employee, member of Team 5, and Lead Producer[1] for Hearthstone. He is featured in the credits card of the same name.
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Yong Woo
As a senior producer on Blizzard Entertainment's Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft team, Yong Woo is responsible for managing the team’s schedule and keeping the project on track. He also works in Live Operations, making sure Hearthstone is running stably and that problems are handled expediently.
Woo joined Blizzard Entertainment in May 2009, serving as producer for the art and design team for StarCraft II Battle.net integration. Before arriving at Blizzard, he was involved in mobile startups, shipping the first phone with preloaded GPS enabled Google Maps in the U.S.
In addition to computer games, Woo's interests include board and card games like Netrunner, Race for the Galaxy, and Dominion. He’s also been known to dabble in triathlons as well as rock climbing.[2]
Notes
- Before Hearthstone, Woo worked on Starcraft II and Diablo III.[3]
- In late 2016 Woo was promoted from Senior Game Producer to Lead Producer.[1]
Trivia
The team gather round to watch Yong Woo play
- Woo describes himself as "kind of obsessed with playing Priest".[4] Priest was Woo's first level 60 class and first golden hero.[4] In 2014 he ran a #PriestRevolution campaign on Twitter.
- Woo can sometimes be found streaming his Hearthstone play on Twitch.
- Woo was the man most directly responsible for "pushing the button" to release the game's first adventure, Curse of Naxxramas.[5]
- Woo joined Blizzard in mid 2009,[6] and in 2014 was awarded his five-year sword.[7] While interviewing for the position, Woo met Ben Brode, who was performing in full costume at that year's Guitar Hero competition.[8]
- As of December 2014, Woo is primarily a constructed player.[9]
- Woo recalls playing World of Warcraft with his sister He-Rim Woo (herself a designer on the team). The two would "smuggle goods" from the Alliance to the Horde through the neutral auctioneers in Gadgetzan. These memories helped fuel Woo's enthusiasm for the Mean Streets of Gadgetzan concept.[10]
- Woo grew up in Düsseldorf, Germany.[11]
Card art
The art for Yong Woo's credits card was created by Template:Setartist.[12]
Gallery
  Leaving work after a busy week working on Hearthstone in 2014 |
  Woo's 5-year sword |
  November 2014 |
  Woo getting all dressed up for a night to remember in August 2016 |
  Credits card artwork |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Yong Woo on Twitter. (2017-01-03).
- ↑ Blizzard Press Center
- ↑ Yong Woo on Twitter. (2015-07-08).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hearthhead - Iksar: Patches Deck Is "Maybe The Single Hardest Deck To Play". (2016-11-13).
- ↑ Ben Brode on Twitter. (2014-07-22).
- ↑ Yong Woo on Twitter. (2014-05-29).
- ↑ Yong Woo on Twitter. (2014-07-25).
- ↑ Yong Woo on Twitter. (2015-12-20).
- ↑ Yong Woo, live on stream. (2014-12-13).
- ↑ Hearthhead - Mean Streets Of Gadgetzan Started With A Gangster Murloc. (2016-11-09).
- ↑ Yong Woo on Twitter. (2016-07-25).
- ↑ Official Battle.net Gallery.