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Sid Meier's Memoir

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Re: Sid Meier's Memoir

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Post by nrjames »

This is a good light read. Working in game dev, I found some of his thoughts around prototyping, production, and design to be insightful and gladly would have read more of those. I also would gladly have read more about Sid Meier's CPU Bach, since that was ahead of its time and seems interesting algorithmically. His stories are a bit more interesting in the early years and the end of the book drags a bit, as he goes from Civ IV to Civ V to Civ IV.

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Post by simonh »

Ordered. Funnily enough I recently came across this GDC presentation by Sid and Bruce Shelley on the development of the original Civilization[0]. Highly recommended.

The influence of Empire as one of the inspirations of the game was obvious to anyone familiar with it. If you're interested there's an excellent updated implementation of Empire on the App Store[1]. I'd love to be able to get a version of Civ 2 on mobile. It's still by far my favourite iteration of Civ. Or Pirates!

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ-auWfJTts

[1]https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/mother-of-all-battles/id425160...

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Post by smoll »

Based on the title of this thread, I was disappointed that the title of his memoir did not end in an exclamation mark, but then was happy to discover that it is indeed titled "Memoir!"
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