The Walkthrough: Insider Tales from a Life in Strategy Guides
Written by Doug Walsh
Narrated by Jason Arnold
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About this audiobook
The Walkthrough offers a rare peek behind the curtain of the secretive video game industry from an unlikely perspective, that of a career strategy guide writer. For eighteen years, Doug Walsh was one of the most prolific authors of officially licensed video game strategy guides.
One part memoir and one part industry tell-all, The Walkthrough takes players on an entertaining march through gaming’s recent history, from the dawn of the PlayStation to the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Switch. Follow along as Walsh retraces his career and reveals how the books were made, what it was like writing guides to some of the industry’s most celebrated — and derided — titles, and why the biggest publishers of guidebooks are no longer around.
Walsh devotes entire chapters to many of gaming’s most popular franchises, including Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Gears of War, and Diablo, among others. From inauspicious beginnings with Daikatana to authoring the books for the entire Bioshock trilogy, with plenty of highs, lows, and Warp Pipes along the way, Walsh delivers a rare treat to twenty-first century gamers. The Walkthrough is sure to satisfy the curiosity of anyone who grew up with the works of BradyGames and Prima Games sprawled across their laps.
With over one hundred books to his credit, and countless weeks spent at many of the most famous studios in North America, he is uniquely qualified to give an insider’s perspective of a little-known niche within the multi-billion-dollar industry.
Doug Walsh
Doug Walsh is a lifelong gamer who, for nearly two decades, was one of the industry’s leading strategy guide authors. Having written over one hundred official guidebooks for such franchises as Diablo, Super Mario, and Halo, his byline graced the cover of over two million copies sold. Walsh’s bestselling memoir, The Walkthrough: Insider Tales From a Life in Strategy Guides, chronicles his unusual career in gaming. He currently plays, writes, and hikes in the Cascade foothills outside Seattle.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved this book. The book was full of interesting stories and the author seems like a cool guy.