Reddit reviews The WoW Diary: A Journal of Computer Game Development
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Hardcover: 336 full-color pagesOver 95,000 wordsOver 130 behind-the-scenes images, most of which have never been published before
I've recently been reading the WoW Diary by John Staats, and all I can say is that Mark Kern was important to the early development of WoW. He was not alone about it, but he at least made production of WoW bearable.
Him and Shane Dabiri had been associate producers on Starcraft. A experience which was terrible for both. Allen Adham (One of Blizzard founders) was slaving away the SC team. He was constantly moving goalposts and keeping employees working for 12 - 16 hours (People had sleeping bags in their offices).
Using this experience, both him and Shane made sure that Team 2 (WoW team) was not burning out from ridiculous work hours. Mark has a ton of presence throughout the diary as well. He is at least portrayed as an awesome boss.
I think it's a bit reductionist to just call him a generic team lead. His work on WoW was actually great, and whatever comes after shouldn't take away from that fact.
It's not a documentary but give this is a read (you can get an ebook still), it has a lot of stories from WoW development. https://www.amazon.com/WoW-Diary-Journal-Computer-Development/dp/B07LB927QF?fbclid=IwAR3hf4mrNzKwDnmATocxhYtsCJCw_czUltlIuMk3YPFVDkvJwv59k1Pc8Is
Check out this book if you're interested in the development of the game. The World of Warcraft Diary - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07LB927QF/
> The WoW Diary by John Staats.
https://www.amazon.com/WoW-Diary-Journal-Computer-Development/dp/B07LB927QF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhKkP8LryYM
https://www.amazon.com/WoW-Diary-Journal-Computer-Development/dp/B07LB927QF
Two things that might interest you
A lot of these are from the WoW Diary by John Staats, which came out in the last couple of months for Kickstarter backers, and should be available on Amazon soon-ish
https://www.amazon.com/WoW-Diary-Journal-Computer-Development/dp/B07LB927QF
It's a really amazing compendium on the development of WoW from '99-'04, and reads very easily. I'd highly recommend it.
Not a video or documentary, but probably the best: https://www.amazon.com/WoW-Diary-Journal-Computer-Development/dp/B07LB927QF
John Staats built like half of vanilla wow's dungeons and raids so there's a good chunk of map design in there.
edit: ebook version available here if that's more your style.
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