In this collection of interviews with game artists, designers and composers, Mat Bradley-Tschirgi explores both gaming's past and, more importantly, its future."
-Flint Dille, Writer/Game Designer
"It's the rare example of a book with something to offer to aspiring game developers, game scholars, and everyday fans alike."
-Professor Jess Morrissette, Ph.D, Creator,
"What's particularly impressive here is the scope of this project and the variety of subjects. There are great musicians, designers, producers, and publishers here ready to share their insights with us via the Bradley-Tschirgi conduit."
- Professor Matt Barton, Ph.D., Author, Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games
"Capturing the story of this maturing industry has become a labor of real historical value, and Mat Bradley-Tschirgi has joined the pantheon of greats who have undertaken this important work."
- Todd Mitchell, Podcaster, CodeWritePlay
Video games are not born, fully-formed, from a dark abyss. They are created by designers, writers, artists, sound engineers, and composers, only to be released by publishers into the world for critics and the general public to embrace or reject them.
In Simply the Best: Interviews with Video Game Designers, Composers and Scofflaws, author, Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, interviews dozens of indie and professional designers who have worked on such classics as E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Fallout, and Leisure Suit Larry, in this delightful tome.
Learn what older PC RPGs offered that modern RPGs don't. Revel in tales of how the Roland MT-32 Sound Module allowed composers to create music that really came alive instead of the mere PC speaker bleeps and bloops. Discover if Leisure Suit Larry is circumsized. All these knowledge nuggets can be yours within the very pages of this book.
Interviewees include:
Ernest Adams, AGD Iinteractive, Yoshitaka Amano, Bo Bennike, Eric Chahi, The Fat Man, Tom Hall, Steve Ince, Ben Isaac, Steven Kent, Brad King, Frank Klepacki, Chris Kohler, Alexander Leon, Al Lowe, Josh Mandel, Mark Minasi, Nick Montfort, Mustin, Neskimos, Scot Noel, George Oldziev, Mandi Paugh, Jeremy Soule, Trey Stokes, Bill Trotter, Feargus Urquhart, Matt Vancil, Jeff Vogel, Howard Scott Warshaw, Aaron Williams, Wolf, Xorlak, and Inon Zur.
