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I enjoyed both Master of Doom and the two Mechner books (for Karateka and PoP). Can anyone suggest similar long-form blogs or books where a single developer talks about a programming journey they took? (Nat Friedman - Ximian - had a great blog 2002-2006ish of this nature, but it has since gone down.)

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I can recommend Stay Awhile and Listen by David L. Craddock which tells the story of how the original Diablo was made. It's mostly told in interviews, so while it's not a single developer's story a lot of it is first hand.

You should definitely check out Bob Pape's book about the spectrum version of Rtype (and Rampage)

http://bizzley.imbahost.com/download.html

About half way through so far, thanks! :)

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