This and the ones by the crazy guy with the Polish surname who writes for HG101-aside, are there many good books based around the industry and/or development process?
This and the ones by the crazy guy with the Polish surname who writes for HG101-aside...
Jace Morris
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Ryan Carter
Probably but you've posted the only one I read in one sitting. Hell the only one I've known about but then again I haven't bothered to look beyond it.
Thomas Nelson
Half life: raising the bar
Michael Evans
how about documentaries?
Jason Barnes
Ultimate History of Video Games (from start thru early 21st century?)
Game Over (Nintendo from start thru N64 era)
Console Wars (mostly Sega-centric, but some focus on Nintendo, takes place in the 16-bit era thru the launch of Saturn)
Brayden Miller
I was into the noclip documentaries for a bit there. However the latest ones haven't been focused developers I'm interested in. And that Witcher one barely fucking touched on the first game, devoting most of the three (four?) episodes to Witcher 3, because that's the one everyone knows.
I'd absolutely take some video game docs, probably gonna watch that one right now.
Aiden White
Not really docos in the truest sense of the term, but those Toco Toco episodes centred around notable devs are really good.
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Anthony Rogers
Nothing will top Masters of Doom. It's probably the only book that I've paid for in 3 different formats (physical, digital, audiobook), and the one I've read the most. It's so goddamn good.
Jose Nguyen
masters of doom is the only good thing on the game industry I've read/watched. All youtube videos are basically uninsightful cocksucking from industry outsiders looking in
Liam Reed
It's genuinely really well written and entertaining for what amounts to two biographies, really funny shit, but doesn't pull any punches with any of the realer shit like romero getting beat up by his stepdad as a kid or carmack getting fucked up in juvie after trying to blow up a building to steal some fucking apple computers. I think it'd make for a pretty good movie if they ever make one.
Parker Bailey
>the part where carmack blows up a building to get some computers
>the part where the id team pulls a keikaku on their old employer and just uses their computers to develop games under their noses
>the part with the stripper
GOAT
Gabriel Bailey
It reads like goddamn fiction, but in the right ways. Tom Hall is best boy and deserves no wrongs. Also this part never fails to make me laugh out loud
"Hey man," Romero said, "You feeling buzzed yet?" You getting drunk Carmack?"
"I am losing control of my faculties," Carmack replied. "Mmm."
Jose Wright
I remember when games were made by passionate nerds instead of codeserfs under the thumb of Jew MBAs.
Angel Hill
The part where the id team stabs a picture of Burger Bill and fires him because he took to long to port Wolfenstein to SNES
Ryan Brooks
>you will never be part of a dev team in a place as comfy as the id lake house
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Lucas Fisher
speaking of, here's some half life 1 beta footage
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Austin Peterson
You should read Making Crash Bandicoot. It's no book, but almost as insightful as Masters of Doom.
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Gamasutra has some interesting articles occasionally, if you're willing to wade through the garbage.
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Mason Turner
I got Rare Replay just for all the bonus interviews
Making of Battletoads
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Juan Bennett
well it was that it took too long but also because he at some point realized that he was on contract with some other company and couldn't make the port anyway.
Evan Rivera
True, but he never told id that. He just kept saying "It'll be done soon." Did you know Burger Bill went through HRT in 2003? He's known as Rebecca now. Weird shit.
Lucas Stewart
Watch GameHut's YouTube channel. He founded Traveler's Tales and talks a lot about developing old games.
Leo Allen
God of War 3 came with a great bunch of making-of docs that went into individual departments and phases of development. It's worth getting just for that if you're interested in working in the industry.
I really wish there were more people like NoClip who visit devs to do their making-ofs and retrospectives for them because almost every dev ever doesn't budget for it themselves.
Jeremiah Fisher
speaking of, remember that part where they talked about american mcgee's childhood and brought up that his mom abandoned him and spent all her money getting her tranny bf a sex reassignment surgery? and the book went out of its way to say he was the craziest guy she dated because of it? Boy, if they wrote that today they'd get fucking mauled by the game journos.
Josiah Anderson
Jordan Mechner's diaries while he were creating Karateka and Prince of Persia are pretty interesting. A really in-depth account of what he goes through emotionally, from the joys of solving game-breaking bugs to the realisation that he has no gf.
Karateka's a lot of fun, since he's only about 18.
Xavier Lee
Didn't his sister get murdered a few years ago or something? Guy's fucking mental, but it's no surprise that he is considering what a totally fucked life he's had.
Levi Lee
>David Kushner
Trump's son in law? ...L-Lads?
Jeremiah Thomas
different kushner lad
Isaiah Gonzalez
This is actually a good read. There's a lot in here I didn't know about the development behind the original Xbox. For example, the name comes from DirectX and the original intention was for the machine to be something that was simple for PC devs to port games to.
Yes it is written by the guy that famously fucked up the cuphead tutorial
Michael Anderson
Thanks for this, I've watched like 8 videos now
Nicholas Howard
Implying game journos would read an entire book to completion
Eli Russell
A couple of years ago I lived down the hall from the same apartment building that they were working out of in Mesquite, TX during the Doom days. At the time, I also worked right next to the Black Cube, which is just a couple miles away. All in the same year that I'd read Masters of Doom. The synchronicity was really weird.
Anyway, I loved the book. It's definitely one of my favorite non-fiction reads. Kushner's book about Rockstar is pretty damn good as well, though id's hijinks were more fun to read about.
Brayden Bailey
No wonder he can't play video games. He's old as shit.
Brody Flores
Last year, he'd posted that she'd gone missing. As far as I know, she's still missing, and may have been murdered according to investigators. Also, his game studio closed down last year and he relies on Patreon to keep making games. Also, his alcoholic dad tried to gouge his eyes out and possibly molest him when he was 13.
American had a hard life.
Parker Perez
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Lincoln Fisher
There is nothing interesting whatsoever about the industry. It's just a bunch of lardasses or japanese robots sitting in cubicles and eating fast food on their breaks.
Oh, I get it, you think that id software life was interesting because no life retards got a bunch of money so you can watch a sperg chop down a door? Wow, it's like rock bands without drugs, sex and great music, just papa rancid pants and some code.