[upmostly]

One of my favourite things of being on HN is reading comments like this. Namely, devs who worked on games I played growing up. I absolutely love hearing stories from their past about little technical nuances like this comment. The more technical / specific, the better.

I'd honestly love to compile a book of "war stories" told by devs like netcoyote.

Maybe I will.

Net, if you're interested, hit me up.

[ryanisnan]

This is a great idea, but respectfully, if you're going to get traction you need to be the one instigating getting people to talk to you. Have a pitch, have an explicit ask, and be willing to put effort into making it happen.

Fantastic idea though, you should do it.

[acomjean]

There are a few of these floating around for older games, but the world needs more:

Ara technica has a war stories feature on game development.

https://arstechnica.com/video/series/war-stories

For apple 2 games John Romero did a podcast. It’s decent but he seems to have stopped doing them.

https://appletimewarp.libsyn.com/ Or YouTube

Ted dabney experience has a lot of interesting interviews with older arcade game designers:

https://www.teddabneyexperience.com/episodes

[branon]

Gamasutra's "Postmortem" series was great: https://web.archive.org/web/20210823172711/https://www.gamas...

[colechristensen]

Sid Meier's Memoir! is exactly that, Sid Meier wrote a memoir which is indeed mostly war stories of his involvement in making games.

[ryanisnan]

Wow, thank you for sharing. If I could upvote your comment twice, I would. I'm going to enjoy this series.