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Jul. 26th, 2021 07:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedRecently bought this book called Game Development and Production, and read chapter 3 after receiving it just a few days ago. One line in particular stood out to me:
Remember, id once created games for $6 for a long-forgotten publisher, Softdisk, and Blizzard once worked as a developer for Interplay.
What a coincidence to be reading Softdisk, the very publisher of such a game as I've been playing this past week as Tiles of the Dragon, although that game came out in 1993, the same year as one of id's own most reknowned series Doom and one year after Wolfenstein 3D. Meanwhile, the only Interplay games I ever played were Mario Teaches Typing and J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings, vol. 1, neither of which Blizzard had any role with, but that company had also developed the one game published by Sunsoft I've ever played before, Death & Return of Superman.
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Mom and I went to the gym and Savers yesterday, and I noticed an orange moth on the latter's door and showed Mom on our way out. We did consider bringing it home, but had nothing to put it inside, and instead left it on a tree.
We looked it up, and it turned out to be an oakworm moth called anisota senatoria.
https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Anisota-senatoria
Remember, id once created games for $6 for a long-forgotten publisher, Softdisk, and Blizzard once worked as a developer for Interplay.
What a coincidence to be reading Softdisk, the very publisher of such a game as I've been playing this past week as Tiles of the Dragon, although that game came out in 1993, the same year as one of id's own most reknowned series Doom and one year after Wolfenstein 3D. Meanwhile, the only Interplay games I ever played were Mario Teaches Typing and J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings, vol. 1, neither of which Blizzard had any role with, but that company had also developed the one game published by Sunsoft I've ever played before, Death & Return of Superman.
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Mom and I went to the gym and Savers yesterday, and I noticed an orange moth on the latter's door and showed Mom on our way out. We did consider bringing it home, but had nothing to put it inside, and instead left it on a tree.
We looked it up, and it turned out to be an oakworm moth called anisota senatoria.
https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Anisota-senatoria