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For anyone who loved WoW (especially the early days), I highly recommend checking out the WoW diary, by John Staats. https://whenitsready.com/wowdiary/ https:/
by zdware 5y ago
For anyone who loved WoW (especially the early days), I highly recommend checking out the WoW diary, by John Staats.
https://whenitsready.com/wowdiary/ https://whenitsready.com/wowdiary/
Not only was he an environment/dungeon/zone designer, but he recorded so much about the games development in the alpha stages. One of my favorite tidbits was how they worked to optimize the game for 56k back then. They got it to work extremely well with just a couple Kb/s!
- cfcf14 5y agoHey thanks for posting about this! I never would have discovered it on my own :)
- dexterhaslem 5y agolots of great tidbits in the book. for example the first maps were made in radiant and tested in quake3! with getting fragged by a coworker and all
- getoj 5y agoThough not dial-up, my internet at the time was still very slow and the servers were a very long way away, so I routinely played with a ping of 600-1000ms with no issues at all. WoW and Guild Wars were about the only online games that worked, come to think of it. On behalf of 13-year-old me, I thank him for his efforts.