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Hacking World of Warcraft Paperback – June 5, 2007

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Get crafty! Veteran WoW player and creator of the most popular World of Warcraft add-on (Atlas) Dan Gilbert guides you through making your stay in the world of Azeroth more exciting. Whether you’re human, dwarf, elf, or orc, you’ll feast on numerous unique hacks such as combat, artwork and model, map, interface, loot, chat, raid, PvP, and more. You’ll also learn to create and use skins and themes, write your own macros, create add-ons, and work with frames and XML so that you can improve your experience with the hottest online game on the planet—planet Earth, that is.

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June 5, 2007
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Hack your way to the top.

World of Warcraft is your world. You are fearless. You are in command. And when you can command these awesome addons, macros, and customizations, you'll savor the heady brew of victory. From the masters who gave us Atlas and PerfectRaid/Clique, you'll learn how to gain an advantage in combat, write spell-casting macros, work with frames and XML, develop Lua scripts that work with the WoW API, and more.

Yeah, they're legal. But don't let that hold you back.

Addons, Macros and more.

Learn the secrets that unlock hidden treasures!

1. Evaluate your performance in battle with combat statistics.

2. Add instance maps and make notes on the World Map.

3. Rearrange everything onscreen and monitor your vitals with an HUD.

4. Make gold "playing " the Auction House.

5. Have whispers open in their own window like an IM client.

6. Overhaul your interface with pre-packaged compilations.

7. Create two fully functional addons from start to finish.

About the Author

Dan Gilbert is the creator and developer of the Atlas addon for World of Warcraft. He also maintains atlasmod.com and the forums there, and encourages you to stop by and say hi.When he actually has time to play WoW, you can find him on the Jaedenar server as Razark (his Shaman) or Nine (his Mage). Dan also sometimes works as a web developer, a graphic artist, and a cinematographer. He designs T-shirts at threadless.com, where his designs “I Heart Color” and “Release” have been printed.
Dan recently graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA where he studied film production. For his thesis project (or Div III) he created a film called The Nightingale Princess with his co-conspirators, Christopher Dreisbach and Owen Granich-Young. The three of them have websites at thenightingaleprincess.com and ocdproductions.net. So far the movie hasn’t gotten into any festivals, but Dan has his fingers crossed. He currently lives in Northampton, MA. In his spare time, he enjoys sleeping.

Jim Whitehead has been an active member of the UI community since December 2004. He initially became an active developer on WatchDog unit frames, and eventually created PerfectRaid and Clique, and spearheaded the creation of the Dongle addon framework.When he’s not developing addons for World of Warcraft, he can be found playing the game with one of his many characters on the Stormrage server.
Jim is a graduate of Syracuse (NY) University, holding an MSc in computer science. Although he has been a resident of cubicle-land for the past few years, he will soon retreat to the halls of academia to pursue his PhD in computer science. He lives in Syracuse, where he spends a disproportionate amount of his life’s savings on keeping his house warm.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 1st edition (June 5, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 370 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0470110023
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470110027
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches

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Claudio Puviani

NOT a book about writing add-ons

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 4, 2007

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Over half of this book lists and briefly describes add-ons that are available on the web. This may be a reasonable introduction for players who have never used add-ons, but it's no substitute for web sites like ui(dot)worldofwar(dot)net that have more content that's organized better and is more up-to-date. Still, there are those who won't know what to look for and a catalog like this one may be what they need to see what they're missing.

The section on writing macros is a good way to get started and it's fairly up-to-date (for now). This section is why the book rates 3 stars and not 2.

The section on writing add-ons takes up about a third of the book and is an unqualified disaster and a meaningless sacrifice of innocent trees. It goes on at length to haphazardly say almost nothing and is littered with advice like "if you want to do X, download an add-on that already does X and read its source code." Thanks, bub. Glad I paid $20 for that gem.

The good news for prospective authors is that the niche of "How to Write World of Warcraft Add-Ons" books is still vacant and ready to be exploited. A reasonable book on that topic would include well-written tutorials and clear sample add-ons that cover, even if only superficially, the many things a player may want to do. It would also include a well-organized reference for the APIs (both lua and GUI), along with short snippets illustrating the use of each function. Such a book, if it existed, would undoubtedly sell very well.

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Rook

Guide to Making Full use of World of Warcraft features.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 27, 2007

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Whether your a noob or a l33t player of World of Warcraft, there is always a way to improve your ability of play and this guide is the way to go. Want to make your own macros, but don't know how, then this guide gives you a brief and decent guide to do that. Curious about add-ons, but not sure whether they will work or if they will get you in trouble with Blizzard, this guide gives you a starting place and information to help you.

The 'Hacking World of Warcraft Guide' is a book for anyone who plays WoW, that wants to improve their ability to play, but either doesn't know how or is unable to figure out where to start. Having been in the predicament in which it seems that one-more second could decide the difference between victory or defeat, I know this book helps lay out the ways to improve game-play.

Now despite the name of the book, it doesn't let you hack World of Warcraft. It gives a player a description of features both available at first glance and those hidden just below the surface of the game. Ever wonder how to chain actions, spells, or abilities with one button, this book helps setting that up. Every see screenshots with maps or gadgets and want to know what those are, the book gives an overview of add-ons and options that are available either already in the game or where to find them online. It even warns about programs that Blizzard allows and doesn't based upon past problems. The book even gives you, the reader, fair warning about the dangers of using programs, both on your computer and with Blizzard, so you can't claim you didn't know.

Overall the book gives an overview of features, options, and other such things that can add to your gaming experience. While not as straight forward as Brady Guides, it gives a decent grasp of things for playing World of Warcraft.

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Crystal Resident

Geared at those Starting out and basic commands

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 10, 2009

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I bought this book and two others to create a couple of interfaces for things I do often.

This book referenced many of the existing add-on applications, and some basic calls. I could have used this info a year ago when I started, but I had already pass beyond this info with stuff from some of the sites listed here. Also two of the links I tried had already either changed or gone dark, so my take is the printed reference does have a time-line.

I did find it well written, and organized, and had I seen this a year ago it would have been ideal.

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Robert Johnsen

Great tool for any WoW gamer

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 19, 2007

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"First let me say this is an extremely well written and useful book. I
am very happy I purchased it.

My primary interest was in understanding and creating addons. I am a
programmer of nearly 50 years experience (yeah, punched cards all the
way to C++ and Java) so what I was primarily after was a good intro to
AddOn development. The explanations of XML and lua were well done and
useful. and the character position development teaching project
well-conceived."

I wrote that to the author when asking him a question about the example I was building. I got a quick and courteous reply, and was able to fix my problem.

About the last third of the book is devoted to AddOn development. It covers the subject well without talking down to an experienced programmer, and seemed to me to also lead the novice in a comprehensible way. A tough line to walk, but they did it well.

As for the rest of the book, I found the list and explanations for the AddOns mentioned well thought out. Admittedly I didn't need it much (I have been playing WoW way too long and knew most of them already) but they would have been very useful when I was first starting to get interested in AddOns.

My only real criticism of this book is its title. The first two thirds are devoted to existing AddOns, not the development of AddOns, and that makes the title more than a little misleading. For me, that two thirds came as an unexpected bonus to the AddOn development section, which met my needs and expectations well.

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Ikerry

Hackers anonymous

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 23, 2007

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This is a book about addons that you can use to enhance your World of Warcraft gaming. There are some useful websites in this book and they tell Wow gamers places to go to find some addons. It also takes you to the next step if you want to make up your addons. If that is what you want to do, then this is the book for you. It shows you how to do it and where to put it. Since I am not very tech-saavy, this book only helped me to find the addon sites.

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Skweek

An interesting book for WOW fans!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 1, 2015

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Interesting, well written and a useful addition to a computing family's library.

Justin

not for beginners.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 19, 2013

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Two things i disliked about this experience is that the book was in pitiful condition when I got it, not as described. Second and most important it was not a book for beginners.

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