{"product_id":"sid-meiers-memoir-9780393868296","title":"Sid Meiers Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe life and career of the legendary developer celebrated as the \"godfather of computer gaming\" and creator of \u003cem\u003eCivilization\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"… enjoyable… the book serves as a pocket history of game development itself…\" -- Alex Hern - The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\"An entertaining autobiography... Where some games are more like films, gorgeous to look at but where many of the artistic decisions have been taken for you, Meier’s games are more like novels, inviting the reader to fill in the gaps. His maxims.\" -- Ed Cumming - The Independent\u003cbr\u003e\"[Meier is] the master of turn-based gaming.\" -- Will Wright, developer of The Sims\u003cbr\u003e\"Any game designer who tries to tell you that he hasn’t taken anything away from a Sid Meier game is akin to a film director saying he has never watched a Hitchcock movie. For Sid is our Hitchcock, our Spielberg, our Ellington.\" -- Gamespot.com\u003cbr\u003e\"A growing pile of video-game histories… suggest that the medium has always had collective effort at its heart, from its academic beginnings to its ascent into everyday life. In Meier’s memoir, we discover that he was a good game-maker when he fought this essential fact, but that he became great when he learned to embrace it.\" -- Neima Jahromi - The New Yorker","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864552616279,"sku":"9780393868296","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393868296.jpg?v=1722272443","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sid-meiers-memoir-9780393868296","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}