The Walkthrough: Insider Tales from a Life in Strategy Guides

The Walkthrough offers a rare peek behind the curtain of the secretive video game industry from an unlikely perspective that of a career strategy guide writer. For eighteen years Doug Walsh was one of the most prolific authors of officially licensed video game strategy guides.One part memoir and one part industry tell-all The Walkthrough takes players on an entertaining march through gamings recent history from the dawn of the PlayStation to the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Switch. Follow along as Walsh retraces his career and reveals how the books were made what it was like writing guides to some of the industrys most celebrated -- and derided -- titles and why the biggest publishers of guidebooks are no longer around.Walsh devotes entire chapters to many of gamings most popular franchises including Tony Hawks Pro Skater Gears of War and Diablo among others. From inauspicious beginnings with Daikatana to authoring the books for the entire Bioshock trilogy with plenty of highs lows and Warp Pipes along the way Walsh delivers a rare treat to twenty-first century gamers. The Walkthrough is sure to satisfy the curiosity of anyone who grew up with the works of BradyGames and Prima Games sprawled across their laps.With over one hundred books to his credit and countless weeks spent at many of the most famous studios in North America he is uniquely qualified to give an insiders perspective of a little-known niche within the multi-billion-dollar industry.