Sid Meier

Sid Meier has designed games for four decades, and Civilization alone has consumed more collective human time than most art forms manage. His design maxim, that a game is a series of interesting decisions, is quoted far outside games.

Sid Meier’s Memoir! is a working designer’s account rather than a victory lap: it is candid about the failures, the projects that did not ship, and the specific reasons players rejected things he was sure would work.