Episode #280: The World of Warcraft Diary with John Staats!
The Starting Zone: The World of Warcraft Podcast!
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🗓️ 9 September 2018
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Welcome to The Starting Zone Podcast, The World of Warcraft Podcast for New and Experienced Players!
Spencer Downey and Jason Lucas sit down to talk with John Staats about how he got started in the industry and how The World of Warcraft Diary came to be!
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a Spazbot Studios production. |
| 0:05.0 | Spazbot Studios, good shows by good people. |
| 0:08.0 | Check out all the shows at spasot studios.com. You're listening to the starting zone, a podcast about World of Warcraft and the people who play it. |
| 0:37.0 | And now, here are your hosts. Well, hello and welcome to the Starting Zone, the World of Warcraft |
| 0:48.8 | podcast for new and experienced players. My name is Spencer Downey. |
| 0:52.0 | Thank you so much for listening and |
| 0:53.7 | subscribing to our podcast. Today I'm joined as always by my co-host Jason Lucas but |
| 0:58.0 | we also have a special guest. This is actually a pre-recorded episode where |
| 1:02.2 | we recorded with John Stats, the author of the World of |
| 1:06.5 | Warcraft diary that is currently up on Kickstarter. So without further ado, let's get |
| 1:12.0 | to that interview. |
| 1:13.9 | Today we are joined by a very special guest he is an original 3D wow level designer and |
| 1:20.1 | the author of the upcoming book being funded on |
| 1:23.3 | Kickstarter, The World of Warcraft diary, |
| 1:25.8 | John Stats. |
| 1:27.0 | John, how are you doing today? |
| 1:28.3 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:29.6 | Hi guys, hi Lucas, I Spencer, how are you doing? |
| 1:32.2 | Thank you for having me. This is a lot of fun. |
| 1:35.0 | Hey John, thanks for giving us some time. You were kind of enough to send us an excerpt of the book and I got to say it was it was |
| 1:42.1 | an amazing read. It was riveted for the 90 page excerpt or so that we sent over and |
| 1:47.0 | I'm kind of a process nerd and I really enjoyed the look under the hood as to how well got built back in those early days. |
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