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Ben Hearthstone @benhearthstone.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Battlegrounds in-depth interview with the Lead Designer Mitchell Loewen! From the Blizzlet podcast 🤯 Podcast link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @loewenmitchell.bsky.social

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Hmm, I'm unfortunately not confident who is the best contact but I cam try to find that out (also sorry for slow reply)

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I don't think I realized how jetlagged I was until I passed out for 14hrs lol

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Got something logged for that. Seems like it isn't force quitting due to inaction atm

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Well it is 50/50 who goes first (assuming equal board size) but they also trigger down the line left to right, so depending on positioning they could be favored to trigger first

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Hmm it's *technically* not a bug since faceless becomes an exact copy and the minion you copied already gave its spellcraft spell. But it definitely feels bad so could be worth changing

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SILENTNICK @silentnick.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Hearthstone new year trailer is here!! Will you answer the call of the Year of the Raptor?? youtu.be/7Xcsj1cKo-c?...

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Year of the Raptor Cinematic | Hearthstone

YouTube video by Hearthstone

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Yeah this isn't the mid-season update, just a big balance patch. More coming soon™️

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It is technically correct that it doesn't scale with reborn

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Did a pretty good job reading this year! Averaged more than a book per week. Also 20 of those books were The Dresden Files lmao. Already have my next few books lined up, so excited for next year!

The StoryGraph Wrap-Up 2024 image for me. First book Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, last book The Wild Robot Protects. Longest The Way of Kings, shortest The Law. 56 books read. 20446 pages. Top genres Fantasy, Mystery, Psychology, Self-Help, and Business. Top authors Jim Butcher, Brandon Sanderson, and Jason Schreier. 5-star reads Grave Peril, Death Masks, and Tress and the Emerald Sea. Avg rating 4.36.

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

So far I've been rate limited 3 times and had to call my bank to remove a hold cause I looked like suspicious activity lol

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I suffer this same problem every year 😪

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

So begins the annual tradition of "trying to gift people things on Steam and getting a combination of 1) rate limited; and 2) having to struggle to figure out which games can be sent across regions; resulting in a multi-day process." Happy holidays folks 🎄

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

So I unfortunately caught the con plague but I did manage to get quite the haul while at PAX Unplugged!

A collection of games and swag collected while at PAX Unplugged, including Slay the Spire, Lorcana, Orichalcum, Lord of the Rings Trick Taking Game, and a mug from Hugs Ceramics.

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

You mean like before/after kind of stuff right, not the current pool?

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hmm I thought we'd added handspace protection to tickatus. Will investigate.

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Boy I sure do love spilling my full drink on the stack of important documents on my desk. Yay.

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Yeah it is definitely a bit weird but technically not a bug

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

It's something we've talked about a few times, but don't have any current plans to add discard/sell from hand atm. It's the kind of change that can have a lot of unintended technical and gameplay implications so we'd want to do it very carefully if at all

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Can you elaborate on why you feel it's worse?

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Anyone have Godot tutorial recommendations? I've been wanting to do a deliberately small scale project and it feels like a good opportunity to try to learn something new.

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Hi! I'm Mitchell. I'm the lead game designer on Hearthstone Battlegrounds at Blizzard. Nice to meet you!

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Not sure. I hit follow all on like 7-9 different game dev starter packs so I'm not sure which one(s) are good lol, but my feed feels pretty great atm

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Osama Dorias @osamadorias.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

It really feels like there's been a surge of game dev on this app recently! Dare I hope that we're rebuilding what we once had?

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 28/04/2023

If you're games industry and following some folks already, reply with who you are and what you do, and then re-post this or whatever it's called. Let's try and find each other on this new place

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Hi! I'm Mitchell. I'm the lead designer on Hearthstone Battlegrounds at Blizzard.

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

It's like a way to mass follow a curated list of people

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Wow starter packs seem great! I get to find so many cool people so fast

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Oh hey I forgot I had this account. Since Twitter is a dumpster fire gonna hang out here for a while.

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

I don't usually share much personal stuff on social media, but I've been on/off bereavement leave for the past few weeks. It's honestly been a...rough few years. I share this because you don't always know what other people are going through. So maybe be kind to folks, yeah?

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

On a 1-10 scale, I'd rate myself tired/10.

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Mitchell Loewen 💙 @loewenmitchell.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

Been trying to comment on more things in r/BobsTavern lately so that I have more platform redundancy (feels especially important in case Twitter finally dies) Even if I don't comment on everything there, there's a high chance I probably saw it (I sort by new there send help plz)

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