The Walkthrough: Insider Tales from a Life in Strategy Guides
Doug Walsh, "The Walkthrough: Insider Tales from a Life in Strategy Guides"
English | ISBN: 1732746761 | 2019 | 148 pages | EPUB | 379 KB
English | ISBN: 1732746761 | 2019 | 148 pages | EPUB | 379 KB
An insider's look at the rise and fall of the video game strategy guide industry, from the author of over one hundred official books for BradyGames and Prima Games.
The Walkthrough offers a rare peek behind the curtain of the secretive video game industry from an unlikely perspective, that of a career strategy guide writer. For eighteen years, Doug Walsh was one of the most prolific authors of officially licensed video game strategy guides. And now he's ready to talk.
One part memoir and one part industry tell-all, The Walkthrough takes players on an entertaining march through gaming’s recent history, from the dawn of the PlayStation to the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Switch. Follow along as Walsh retraces his career and reveals how the books were made, what it was like writing guides to some of the industry’s most celebrated — and derided — titles, and why the biggest publishers of guidebooks are no longer around.
Walsh devotes entire chapters to many of gaming’s most popular franchises, including
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