They Create Worlds

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Love of the worlds created by video game designers and personalities drives Alex Smith & Jeffrey Daum (history, law, CS degrees) to provide a scholarly yet light-hearted discussion of how arcade, home console, and PC games merged into a Video Game Industry. Emphasis is on the combination of business and creative elements needed for financial success. Interviews of Atari, EA, Activision, & other execs with detailed source evaluations produce the insights you hear in these 140+ hours!

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Tuesday Nov 15, 2016

DOOM!

Tuesday Nov 15, 2016

TCW Podcast Episode 030 - DOOM

We discuss ID Software, and the lasting effects of the company on the video game industry, and society as a whole. We delve into the ramifications of the tech industry in general, and coders specifically with perpetual crunch time. We go into a lot of different subjects tangential to the ID story. Ultimately realizing the lasting effect a group of guys taking advantage of potentially one of the last times an independent developer could make it alone in the AAA space.

Catacomb 3D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5MzKdjIaPU

Ultima Underworld: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozeydDiCHws

Chiller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvvTh3cU8Ms

Doom with John Romero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUU7_BthBWM

Visit to ID Software 1993: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpEBUV_g9vU

Bill Gates Doom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiX9dEmXwso

You and Your Work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEBizJWOoVM

New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month!

TCW Email: tcwpodcast@gmail.com

Twitter: @tcwpodcast

Alex's Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com

Intro Music: E1M1 by Bobby Prince, and remixed by Michael Massay - http://www.doomworld.com/classicdoom/info/music.php