book - Tomb of Ash https://www.tomb-of-ash.com/tag/book/ Award-Winning Videogames Blog Sun, 14 May 2017 15:27:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 https://www.tomb-of-ash.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOA-link-head-120-48x48.png book - Tomb of Ash https://www.tomb-of-ash.com/tag/book/ 32 32 The Secret History of Mac Gaming https://www.tomb-of-ash.com/the-secret-history-of-mac-gaming/ Wed, 03 May 2017 10:41:57 +0000 http://ashkaprielov.co.uk/the-secret-history-of-mac-gaming/ Richard Moss, the writer of such famous articles as “It felt like robbery”: Tomb Raider and the fall of Core Design is currently writing his first book on Mac Gaming.

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]]> Richard Moss, the writer of such famous articles as “It felt like robbery”: Tomb Raider and the fall of Core Design is currently writing his first book on Mac Gaming.  You can pledge your support by following this link.

Mac gaming welcomed strange ideas and encouraged experimentation. It fostered passionate and creative communities who inspired and challenged developers to do better and to follow the Mac mantra “think different”.

The Secret History of Mac Gaming is 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’s a book about people who made games and people who played them — people who, on both counts, followed their hearts first and market trends second. How in spite of everything they had going against them, the people who carried the torch for Mac gaming in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s showed how clever, quirky, and downright wonderful videogames could be.

The work draws on archive materials as well as 60+ new interviews with key figures from Mac gaming’s past, including:

Craig Fryar, who is co-authoring several chapters (former Mac game evangelist, Spectre co-creator)
Robyn and Rand Miller (Cyan Worlds)
Patrick Buckland (Crystal Quest)
John Calhoun (Glider)
Andrew Welch (Ambrosia)
Ben Spees (Harry the Handsome Executive, Ferazel’s Wand)
Matt Burch (Escape Velocity)
Ian and Colin Lynch Smith (Freeverse)
Steven Tze (Freeverse)
Mark Stephen Pierce (Dark Castle)
Jonathan Gay (Dark Castle, Airborne, went on to design what later became Adobe Flash)
Bill Appleton (World Builder, Creepy Castle, others)
Steve Capps (Alice/Through the Looking Glass, Amazing, co-created The Finder)
Charlie Jackson (Silicon Beach Software)
Peter Cohen (Tikkabik/MacGaming.com, editor at Macworld 1999-2009)
Trey Smith (GraphSim)
Dave Marsh (Shadowgate, Uninvited)
Joe Williams (Delta Tao)
Brian Greenstone (Pangea)
Craig Erickson (Déjà Vu/MacVenture system)
Rick Holzgrafe (Scarab of Ra, Solitaire Till Dawn)
Chris De Salvo (MacPlay, Apple GameSprockets)
Ray Dunakin (Ray’s Maze, Another Fine Mess, A Mess O’ Trouble)
Cliff Johnson (Fool’s Errand, 3 In Three, At the Carnival)
Glenda Adams (Westlake Interactive, Aspyr)
Rebecca Heineman (Interplay/MacPlay, Logicware)
Eric Klein (former Mac game evangelist, Bungie)
Marc Vose (MacSports/gamedb)
Yoot Saito (SimTower)
Alex Seropian (Bungie)
and many more

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]]> https://www.tomb-of-ash.com/delighted-that-we-are-credited-as-one-of-the/ Thu, 20 Apr 2017 23:34:41 +0000 http://ashkaprielov.co.uk/delighted-that-we-are-credited-as-one-of-the/ Delighted that we are credited as one of the sources in the French book L’Histoire De Tomb Raider. Huge honour!

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]]> The Official “20 Years of Tomb Raider” – book https://www.tomb-of-ash.com/the-official-20-years-of-tomb-raider-book/ Fri, 22 Apr 2016 19:47:21 +0000 http://ashkaprielov.co.uk/the-official-20-years-of-tomb-raider-book/ So after months of silence I can now announce my participation in this project. I contributed with my Tomb Raider expertise as part of review group (plus various bits and bobs here and there), and also have content featured in the fan portion of the book, so look out for me when you read it […]

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]]> So after months of silence I can now announce my participation in this project. I contributed with my Tomb Raider expertise as part of review group (plus various bits and bobs here and there), and also have content featured in the fan portion of the book, so look out for me when you read it this October! 

The book explores the ground-breaking, rich, and diverse history of Tomb Raider franchise. 

Exclusive interviews from Core Design, Crystal Dynamics, official voice actors, composers, live actions models, comic artists, and more.

Pre-order
now on Amazon

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