
Sid Meier's Memoir!
A Life in Computer Games
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Narrated by:
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Charles Constant
About this listen
The life and career of the legendary developer celebrated as the "godfather of computer gaming" and creator of Civilization.
Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world's most popular video games, including Sid Meier's Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier's Memoir! is the story of an obsessive young computer enthusiast who helped launch a multibillion-dollar industry. Writing with warmth and ironic humor, Meier describes the genesis of his influential studio, MicroProse, founded in 1982 after a trip to a Las Vegas arcade, and recounts the development of landmark games, from vintage classics like Pirates! and Railroad Tycoon, to Civilization and beyond.
Articulating his philosophy that a video game should be "a series of interesting decisions", Meier also shares his perspective on the history of the industry, the psychology of gamers, and fascinating insights into the creative process, including his rules of good game design.
©2020 Sid Meier and Jennifer Lee Noonan (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded BooksJust great
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Great trip down memory lane
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It’s well read, heartwarming and uplifting.
My only improvement would be to suggest that the captions for what I presume are photos in the print edition don’t work when read out without any precursor to what they are as they don’t fit in a narrative.
It would have been a great design point if the “achievement unlocked” sections had a highlight in music behind them too.
Fantastic approach to a life lived through games
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Fascinating insight into the Father of Civ
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Awesome insight into the world of Sid Meiers
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It needed one more structural edit to get that fifth star, but the version of it in my head now (with the material rearranged) is full-house worthy. There are a half-dozen ideas here I'm definitely going to use in my life (which barely features any computer games!) like the "doubling or halving" change rule, so you know you're going in the right direction and don't waste time on smaller iterations. Sincere thanks to everyone involved with his book, it was a privilege to hear it.
"May all of your decisions be interesting"
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a good story
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One for the inner engineer
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Outstanding
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One of modern gaming's founding fathers
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