Two companies. Two opposing cultures. One multi-billion-dollar video-game empire.
Stay Awhile and Listen: How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire - Book 1 invites readers to discover the origin of Blizzard North, a studio built by gamers, for gamers, and Blizzard Entertainment, a convergence of designers driven to rule their industry.
Composed from exhaustive research and hundreds of personal interviews, the Stay Awhile and Listen series divulges the fated meeting that brought the two Blizzards together, the clashes that tore them apart, and their transformation from grassroots democracy to corporate empire. At the center of it all—Diablo, a hack-and-slash adventure through the darkest recesses of Hell that changed online gaming forever.
Author(s): David L. Craddock
Series: Book 1
Publisher: Digital Monument Press, LLC
Year: 2013
Language: English
Tags: Blizzard Diablo
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Author’s Note: How to Stay Awhile and Listen More
Prologue: The Corpse Run
Act I: No Experience Necessary
Chapter 1: Silicon and String Bikinis
Chapter 2: Desktop Heroes
Chapter 3: Project Condor
Chapter 4: Superman Can’t Kick
Act II: Synapses and Snowstorms
Chapter 5: The Business Plan Du Jour
Chapter 6: The World of WarCraft
Act III: Descent into Hell
Chapter 7: The Game We’ll Make Someday
Chapter 8: The Velvet Hammer
Chapter 9: The Condor Test
Chapter 10: Spit, Bubblegum, and Floppy Disks
Chapter 11: Light and Dark
Chapter 12: Battles and Battle.net
Chapter 13: The Golden Times
Epilogue: Phenomenon
Side Quests
Side Quests: Chapter 1
Side Quests: Chapter 2
Side Quests: Chapter 3
Side Quests: Chapter 4
Side Quests: Chapter 5
Side Quests: Chapter 6
Side Quests: Chapter 7
Side Quests: Chapter 8
Side Quests: Chapter 9
Side Quests: Chapter 10
Side Quests: Chapter 11
Side Quests: Chapter 12
Side Quests: Chapter 13
Bonus Rounds
Bonus Round 1: Condor’s Lost Games
Bonus Round 2: “Rock Balls” - The Making of WarCraft II
Bonus Round 3: Cartridge Chronicles
Bonus Round 4: Interview with Brian Fargo, Founder of Interplay Productions, Inc.
Bonus Round 5: Interview with Feargus Urquhart, Producer at Interplay Productions
Bonus Round 6: Interview with Scott Coleman and Jay Cotton, Creators of Kali
Bonus Round 7: Interview with Efraim Wyeth and Mike Sigal, Founders of FM Waves
Bibliography
Credits
Notes and Citations
About the Author
About Digital Monument Press, LLC
