Stay Awhile and Listen
by David L. Craddock, Andrew Magrath, Monica Cesario, Amie C.E. Kline · first published 2017
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Also recommend reading Stay Awhile and Listen: How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire - David L. Craddock http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G8UL474 Really interesting read, covers Diablo/Warcraft development from its humble…
on “An Oral History of Diablo II” ↗I can recommend Stay Awhile and Listen by David L. Craddock which tells the story of how the original Diablo was made. It's mostly told in interviews, so while it's not a single developer's story a lot of it is first hand.
on “John Carmack .plan Archive (2014)” ↗If you enjoy the topic, try to take the time to read "Stay Awhile and Listen" by David L. Craddock (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZQQRWS9?notRedirectToSD...). I was shocked to learn how little the dev team was financially rewarded (besides the owners).
on “Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]” ↗You might also enjoy the Blizzard book: Stay Awhile and Listen: How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire [1] [1] http://www.amazon.com/Stay-Awhile-Listen-Blizzards-Video-Gam...
on “Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is written in C++” ↗Stay Awhile and Listen is also a very good one in this vein.
on “Ask HN: Do you know any good audio books for developers?” ↗Stay Awhile and Listen is an interesting one on the development of Diablo https://www.amazon.com/Stay-Awhile-Listen-Legendary-Video-Ga...
on “Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint (2012) [pdf]” ↗"Stay Awhile and Listen" is a great book covering the founding story of Blizzard North, creators of Diablo 1 & 2. While not as great as Masters of Doom, it reminded me quite a bit of it.
on “Ask HN: What are more books like “Masters of Doom” or “Showstoppers”?” ↗In the same vein as Masters of Doom, I enjoyed `Stay Awhile and Listen` for a peek into Blizzard.
on “Great books on classic video games” ↗Stay awhile and listen. It's a book about Blizzard.
on “Ask HN: What are more books like “Masters of Doom” or “Showstoppers”?” ↗…II, Guild Wars) `Code of Honor` blog. One of the more popular posts there: https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/the-starcraft-path-finding-... Also, it is easy to draw parallels between David Craddock's `Stay Awhile and Listen` book and Masters of Doom. I tried to quickly whip up the Amazon link, but I'm seeing multiple versions and listings... apparently multivolume? When I first encountered it, it was a single book.
on “Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with Overwatch 2” ↗Anyone know a good book or books about the history of Infocom? Ideally, I'd like something along the lines of Hackers, Masters of Doom, or Stay Awhile, and Listen
on “Ask HN: Books about Infocom?” ↗…1996(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_%28video_game%29). So it was very delayed. I guess that the game underwent some huge changes to justify this delay. Some of the changes are described in this chapter of the book "Stay Awhile and Listen": http://www.shacknews.com/article/76406/chapter-8-finale-cond.... The part I found especially interesting was how they changed it from turn-based to ARPG: > Our company was saying, "We're going to take…
on “Original Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]” ↗There is a book titled "stay awhile, and listen" describing the early days of Condor/Blizzard North and Diablo.
on “Original Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]” ↗on that note, i read a book on blizzard's history "stay awhile and listen" that was not worth it. maybe it was because i read it right after masters of doom, but it felt like they were afraid to say anything negative, and as a result it's boring and also very hard to learn…
on “The original pitch for Diablo (1994) [pdf]” ↗…"5 out of 10" quest system used in Diablo 1. What is really simple but good for replayability. For those interested in Blizzard/Blizzard North/Diablo 2 history you can also check the 2nd book called Stay awhile and listen: heaven, hell and secret cow levels. Author goes more into what wenr wrong during Diablo 2 development (and obviously what went good). The 1st book is about Diablo 1 and is much weaker: it is mlstly quotes…
on “Great books on classic video games” ↗