No documentaries that I know of, but I would definitely watch one if it was out there. I do own a copy of Playing MUDs on the Internet which is a nice throwback book to pick up since it gives a good overview of general play, as well as history and the author's personal experiences.
> Welcome, to Sanctuary... the Land between the Rivers of Blood.
I dearly miss that game even though it was full of assholes. So much fun. Did you guys know that the player who ran Mantas/Grunt wrote a book about MUDding?
Sorry making this reply so late here, but just felt like posting this here.
Yeah it does make sense in terms of the way he's currently viewing games and the internet from 20-30 years ago. The way that he worded his past experience from his linkedin as well as in both as a "Senior Programmer" and from the steam forums sounds like what some system administrators and technicians would talk like. I also did got that kind of sense as well from not only when I saw his linkedin profile, but from one of his documents in his lawsuit against Sterling. I believe it's the one where he mentioned his past work as an IT Professional as well as where he "wrote" three books about MUDs and internet games with a Rawn Shah:
https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Muds-Internet-Rawn-Shah/dp/0471116335
https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Wargames-Internet-Rawn-Shah/dp/0471116343/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
I put quotes on "wrote" because I have a feeling that Shah here might have been the one that wrote this mostly while James did not have that much involvement in there. Of course, that's just an assumption I'm making here, so don't take my word for that.
Anyways, he mentioned he wanted to use the reputation by doing those books to become a game developer or whatever point he's trying to make there. Along with that, he mentions his other past work that almost similar from his linkedin profile and earned a CISSP certification which expired in 2014. It seems he thought that being an "IT Professional" or in other words, being a system administrator as well as writing books about Internet games got him ready to become a game developer for some reason and just assumed that he already knows everything about it and doesn't have to do any kind of research at all of how the current industry works.
For the most part, James is very outdated as how the present time works as well as in terms of games and technologies or even had an interest in growing at all. Some of his statements and sense as you guys mentioned as well as the title he mentions, "IT Professional" does give an insight that he views the current day as something from the 80s and 90s. In terms of game development, he might've tried to actually program some of his games, but later on found out that it was very difficult than he expected. This is the same case from his brother, Robert which is the same thing such as no experience in coding, mindset still stuck around 20 years ago, and have no interest in learning the current day as well as growing at all.