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THE WOW DIARY: A JOURNAL OF COMPUTER GAME DEVELOPMENT

John Staats


 

The World of Warcraft Diary offers a rare, unfiltered look inside the gaming industry. It was written by the game's first level designer, John Staats, from notes he took during WoW's creation. The WoW Diary explains why developers do things and debunks popular myths about the games industry. In great detail he covers the what it took to finish the project; the surprises, the arguments, the mistakes, and Blizzard's formula for success. The author includes anecdotes about the industry, the company, the dev team; how they worked together, and the philosophy behind their decisions.


The WoW Diary is a story made from notes taken during the dev team’s four year journey. It is a timeline of Vanilla WoW’s development cycle, a time-capsule with an exhausting amount of details that also looks at the anatomy of computer game studio. In order to illustrate how all the parts of computer game company work together, he interviewed everyone from the company’s founders to his former teammates; and the supporting departments who helped make WoW a reality.

 

PUBLICATION DETAILS

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BINDING

EDITION

ISBN

YEAR

PAGES

English

Hardcover

9780999082409

2019

336

English

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2019

336


 

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Authors: #JohnStaats

Publishers: #whenitsreadyLLC (whenitsready LLC)

Languages: #English

Year: #Year2019


Companies: #Blizzard (Blizzard Entertainment)


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Games:

#Warcraft (World of Warcraft)


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