Masters of Doom Book Review + gameplay footage
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Let's do something a little different. If you like reading and you like video games, there are some great options out there for reads, one of them is Masters of Doom by David Kushner. Watch to get an outline of the book including a brief history of Doom, Id Software, and the men behind it: John Carmack and John Romero. Then I'll help you decide if this book is right for you.
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Just a note that it’s actually “id” software not I.D. as in the id of the brain, or the id ego, which is a brilliant name for a software company
Thanks Bryan! Unfortunately too late to change it but I appreciate you checking out the channel!
Kreative Games no problem, great video, I really enjoyed it
TV series in development!
Review starts at 1:02
It's probably fair to name this book one of the key formative experiences for me growing up. I grew up playing Doom and was a sophomore in high school when the book came out (naturally I picked it up on release day). It had incredible timing too, I was in our school's computer science class that year and generally composed of concentrated angst. Reading the book kinda went like this:
• Hey these are the guys that made stuff I like!
• Hey they hated all the things I hate!!
• Wow so they just went off and made something they wanted to!
• I should do this!!
So yea, spent the next 3 years making games (not good ones) with a few friends of mine and learned a great deal of programming/math/etc. And hell, I still don't do bullshit work to this day.
That's a great story Pat! Thanks for sharing it.
I found the whole chapter when Carmack was working on the side scrolling absolutely enthralling and was my favourite part of the book. What leapt out was Romero was a gamer through and through and when he first ran the Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement demo, the way the narrative conveyed his awe was so well written. The version they sent to Nintendo was rejected but only because they had no interest in pursuing the PC gaming market.
Love playing video games & reading books too. Good combination for the mind.
100% agreed. Thanks for watching!
just bought on amazon, I'll read it
Let me know what you think when you're done!
Great book!
Its too bad the GTA one isnt as good as this one and has a lot of unchecked facts
I haven't read that yet. What's it titled?
Keller Kreative Games Jacked: The outlaw story of Grand Theft Auto.
They made a tv movie based on it called "The gamechangers"