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The book was heavily pushed on tiktok because it hit the platforms target demo perfectly with the angsty young characters set in a video game backdrop that the

The book was heavily pushed on tiktok because it hit the platforms target demo perfectly with the angsty young characters set in a video game backdrop that the average tiktok age group could understand. Personally I was hoping it would have been more like the backstory episode of the Mythic Quest TV show and was disappointed. It was an average story at best with characters that never really matured, but that doesn't matter because I'm not the target audience. The target will connect with the characters and come away thinking it was a fantastic story and will gobble up any movie/tv show that comes out of it. Good job, author and marketing.

CydeWeys 3y ago
Fwiw I read it for a work book club and liked it, though it did feel pretty similar to Masters of Doom and Soul of a New Machine, both of which I've also read recently. Those two were cited as influences in this book, are non-fiction, and I found them more interesting (maybe because they were non-fiction).
- throwaway675309 3y ago
  Masters of doom is a highly researched memoir of the gaming company iD software and also gets into some fairly technical details of how the first 3-D game engines worked (ray casting, binary space partitions, etc) It's probably one of my favorite memoirs, I can't imagine this book which seems to have a more focus on interpersonal relational fictional drama being in any way similar.
  - CydeWeys 3y ago
    Masters of Doom has plenty of interpersonal drama in it as well. Hell, John Carmack and John Romero are the two main characters, and most of the other id Software early employees end up getting fired. I suggest you re-read Masters of Doom (or at least read this synopsis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom#Content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom#Content ), also read Tomorrow^3, and you'll see the similarities.

CydeWeys 3y ago

Fwiw I read it for a work book club and liked it, though it did feel pretty similar to Masters of Doom and Soul of a New Machine, both of which I've also read recently. Those two were cited as influences in this book, are non-fiction, and I found them more interesting (maybe because they were non-fiction).

throwaway675309 3y ago
Masters of doom is a highly researched memoir of the gaming company iD software and also gets into some fairly technical details of how the first 3-D game engines worked (ray casting, binary space partitions, etc) It's probably one of my favorite memoirs, I can't imagine this book which seems to have a more focus on interpersonal relational fictional drama being in any way similar.
- CydeWeys 3y ago
  Masters of Doom has plenty of interpersonal drama in it as well. Hell, John Carmack and John Romero are the two main characters, and most of the other id Software early employees end up getting fired. I suggest you re-read Masters of Doom (or at least read this synopsis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom#Content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom#Content ), also read Tomorrow^3, and you'll see the similarities.