Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings: The rise and fall of Sierra On-Line by Ken Williams.

A book about mightiest in past gaming company Sierra On-Line baits to reading, because it was written by it’s founder and CEO Ken Williams. I have regret that to books about gaming I additionally with this one can call Masters of Doom. I usually find compilations then narrations. More of all that, Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings wasn’t in project for Ken Williams and it appearance happened due to COVID-19. 

View of Ken Williams from business position, where he isn’t so devotedly writes about games, didn’t less hype. His targeted spinning on Sierra goes in chronological narration to one-stop chapters about inside of business and gaming and who wants to do first, second or both on which he rightly says that his advices can’t work for everybody. I was founding solidarity to my view and discovered things, which possibly will help me, because I would like to make a one game. I share with Ken Williams on universities despite his experience was in a greater place. A quote of Ray Bradbury (with whom I always find many common and I think we would be find multiple topics for conversations.) about undisputable usefulness of self-education, which fits for me, but again – that’s not for everybody as same to universities. 

I had where I was arguing with Ken Williams. He quotes Bill Gates that it is not your problem if you born poor while it’s if you didn’t became rich. I always say that many Americans don’t accept their happiness to live in the United States, because they don’t know harsh conditions and limitations. I apologize for following egoism, but I don’t have another example. I can’t as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean-Claude Van Damme just picked up a ticket from the Europe to the United States. It includes fro me economical circumstance of that state, which restricts to have just simple normality, and personal obstacles, which I’m getting and having by some people. Of course, I can do things, which even citizens of the West can’t allow, but everything that are little moments when I can and want more, but I’m in aforementioned unfreedoms from them I still enthusiastic to liberate.
Another apologize and that is right I can’t judge due to absence of this experience, having of comfort position and who knows how I would behave in this state, but I think Williams was in naivety when agreed to sell Sierra to CUC International, which with price were deputies of vice-chairman in this offering conglomerate (posts with “vice” are always under somebody.), membership in office of the president and I see more suspicious here: two places of four in board and shares of CUC will bigger to their CEO who told these conditions to head of Sierra. Williams got warnings from management department after incident and he heard that don’t stay after selling of company. Did he learn similar stories then before signing on giving Sierra with games to conglomerate?

Williams have contradictions in views. He advises to wanting to be a developer without experience that parents will support while it’s wrong thing always say people thinking that parents never do evil to children. Moreover, Williams tells that he was looking for ways for haven’t be at home and meet with mother in school years. He shares that violence and nudity harmful for kids as he tells on cutting of naked breast in full-motion videogame Phantasmagoria while I adore Sierra’s adventures that characters can die and their demise can be presented in cruelty and Larry can be totally naked in one place of Leisure Suit Larry 2. Ken Williams admits own against to violence of Wolfenstein 3D, but he writes that he wanted this kind project and regrets that he didn’t succeed in deal of buying ID Software and that Doom wasn’t released under publishing of his company and later he will do it with Half-Life. 

True CEO of Sierra writes different captivating stories, which can be outside of gaming, and gives revealing personality in meetings with other CEOs and founders of giant corporations. In that book more than once about Sierra’s close to historical acquisitions and deals.
It was a company was making breakthroughs where sometimes vision (as personally discerning Mr. Ken Williams too.) was too early for realization.
The book has stories about happened failures and conflicts where as in everything the author does it objective. But he remains mystery on what was in dissolving between him and Jim Walls had an incident in development of Police Quest III. I don’t feel that he is so angry, but Williams mentions Walls as a creator of Police Quest series and lists him in developers in the end while the founder of Sierra devotes a chapter on LA chef Daryl F. Gates who did Police Quest IV and it’s subseries SWAT. 

A talented businessman, but Ken Williams haven’t arrogant CEO when on that deputy he took care on every person in staff of hundreds and he has people with whom he made fantastic relationships. He allowed (Am I must correct on present time?) full creativity, because Williams likes creative people. It is a pleasure to look inside of great Sierra from it’s founder.