Staats lives half an hour from me, so we met at a coffee shop to talk growing up in Northeast Ohio, the formative days of WoW's team, the as-yet-unknown medical condition that forced him to retire from development,ĭavid Craddock: I don't often get a chance to talk with game developers in Akron, Ohio. ![]() ![]() Staats recently self-published The WoW Diary: A Journal of Computer Game Development, which serves as both his memoir of his time in the games industry working as World of WarCraft's first level designer, and an inside look at how the genre-defining MMORPG was made. We've both written extensively about Blizzard Entertainment's culture and games, and we both hail from Ohio. ![]() John Staats and I share a couple of important things in common.
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