Stay Awhile and Listen: Book I

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Two companies. Two opposing cultures. One multi-billion-dollar video-game empire. Stay Awhile and Listen: How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire - Book 1 invites readers to discover the origin of Blizzard North, a studio built by gamers, for gamers, and Blizzard Entertainment, a convergence of designers driven to rule their industry. Composed from exhaustive research and hundreds of personal interviews, the Stay Awhile and Listen series divulges the fated meeting that brought the two Blizzards together, the clashes that tore them apart, and their transformation from grassroots democracy to corporate empire. At the center of it all—Diablo, a hack-and-slash adventure through the darkest recesses of Hell that changed online gaming forever. Copyright Acknowledgements Author’s Note: How to Stay Awhile and Listen More Prologue: The Corpse Run Act I: No Experience Necessary Chapter 1: Silicon and String Bikinis Chapter 2: Desktop Heroes Chapter 3: Project Condor Chapter 4: Superman Can’t Kick Act II: Synapses and Snowstorms Chapter 5: The Business Plan Du Jour Chapter 6: The World of WarCraft Act III: Descent into Hell Chapter 7: The Game We’ll Make Someday Chapter 8: The Velvet Hammer Chapter 9: The Condor Test Chapter 10: Spit, Bubblegum, and Floppy Disks Chapter 11: Light and Dark Chapter 12: Battles and Battle.net Chapter 13: The Golden Times Epilogue: Phenomenon Side Quests Side Quests: Chapter 1 Side Quests: Chapter 2 Side Quests: Chapter 3 Side Quests: Chapter 4 Side Quests: Chapter 5 Side Quests: Chapter 6 Side Quests: Chapter 7 Side Quests: Chapter 8 Side Quests: Chapter 9 Side Quests: Chapter 10 Side Quests: Chapter 11 Side Quests: Chapter 12 Side Quests: Chapter 13 Bonus Rounds Bonus Round 1: Condor’s Lost Games Bonus Round 2: “Rock Balls” - The Making of WarCraft II Bonus Round 3: Cartridge Chronicles Bonus Round 4: Interview with Brian Fargo, Founder of Interplay Productions, Inc. Bonus Round 5: Interview with Feargus Urquhart, Producer at Interplay Productions Bonus Round 6: Interview with Scott Coleman and Jay Cotton, Creators of Kali Bonus Round 7: Interview with Efraim Wyeth and Mike Sigal, Founders of FM Waves Bibliography Credits Notes and Citations About the Author About Digital Monument Press, LLC