Sid Meier
Autor(a) de Sid Meier's Memoir! A Life in Computer Games
About the Author
Sid Meier, creator of Civilization, has been honored with virtually every award in the video game industry, A member of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame and founder of Firaxis Games, Meier lives in Hunt Valley, Maryland.
Image credit: Photo by Antonio Fucito from Terni, Italia
Séries
Obras de Sid Meier
Sid Meier's Civilization IV — Diretor — 12 cópias
Sid Meier's Civilization V 6 cópias
Sid Meier's Civilization 4 cópias
Sid Meier's Pirates! 3 cópias
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon 2 cópias
Sid Meier's Railroads! [DVD-ROM] 2 cópias
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords 1 exemplar(es)
Sid Meier's Civilization V: Brave New World 1 exemplar(es)
Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol 1 exemplar(es)
Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire 1 exemplar(es)
Silent Service: The Submarine Simulation 1 exemplar(es)
Sid Meier's Starships 1 exemplar(es)
Civilization: Call To Power (cdrom) 1 exemplar(es)
Civilization : build an empire to stand the test of time 1 exemplar(es)
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon 1 exemplar(es)
Civilization III Complete 1 exemplar(es)
Sid Meier przedstawia: Wspomnienia! 1 exemplar(es)
Civilization II : Conquests [DVD-ROM] 1 exemplar(es)
The Chronicles of Civilization 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Meier, Sid
- Nome de batismo
- Meier, Sidney K.
- Data de nascimento
- 1954-02-24
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Canada (birth)
USA - Local de nascimento
- Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 38
- Membros
- 309
- Popularidade
- #76,232
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 14
- Idiomas
- 2
- enthralling early game with nostalgia inducing looks at the other side of the games that shaped your youth and the industry.
- bit of lost momentum in the middle where you start wondering if Meier will expand more on conflict in his career given what you know about things coming to a head at Microprose, etc. (he doesn't)
- a slog of an endgame where you realize even his attempt at answering critiques of the genre he defined (the whig history baked into Civ) is completely unsatisfying.
Sid Meier's games remain great. His perspective on his career and any meaningful conflict in his field is surprisingly shallow. For someone who acknowledges his own myth as being built around creating interesting decisions, his retrospective doesn't touch on any issue being within his control. Reflections on momentous decisions like splitting with Bill Stealey or consideration of the effects of "the crunch" on developers' lives just float by like a cloud on the Spanish Main. This book is just such a disturbingly uncritical look at Meier's "Greatest Hits" that you're left wondering why a mind capable of such great and creative analysis couldn't apply the same scrutiny to his own career?… (mais)