It’s a book about people who followed their hearts first and market trends second, showing how clever, quirky, and downright wonderful video games could be.
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#Video games on mac archive
Written by award-winning journalist and game historian Richard Moss, The Secret History of Mac Gaming draws on a combination of archive material and around 80 interviews with key figures from the era to tell the story of those communities and the game developers who survived and thrived in an ecosystem that was serially ignored by the outside world. It fostered passionate and creative communities who inspired and challenged developers to do better and to follow the Mac mantra: ‘think different’. It welcomed strange ideas and encouraged experimentation. It allowed anyone to create games and playful software with ease, and gave indie developers a home for their products. Mac gaming led to much that is now taken for granted by PC gamers and spawned some of the biggest franchises in video game history - including Myst, Halo, and SimCity. It made human-computer interaction friendly, inviting, and intuitive. It challenged the medium to be more than child’s play and quick reflexes. Sign up to my low-volume, book announcements-only newsletter via this link if you’d like to be notified when those are available, or keep an eye on this website.
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#Video games on mac full
Self-published Kindle and ePub editions of the full Expanded Edition book text are coming soon too. If you already own a copy of the first edition and you’re not sufficiently swayed by these improvements, or if you’d like help pinpointing where those 6,000 words of additional stories are located, stay tuned for a digital add-on pack that I’ll sell directly to you (sans publisher, sans fancy design stuff) with just the new stories and the timeline formatted as a list. The Expanded Edition from Bitmap Books features a revised text layout (we pushed the margins nearer to the middle and justified the text) as well as a foreword by 7th Guest co-creator Graeme Devine, a beautiful-presented timeline of key moments in Mac gaming history, a pair of icon galleries, around 60 additional images, and around 6,000 words of additional stories (to add to the 115k words of the first edition). Available to order now (as of November 2021), The Secret History of Mac Gaming is both back in print and better than ever.