Crossing the Valley of Despair: Maintaining Your Sanity While Designing Video Games

Sid Meier is the developer of Civilization, Railroad Tycoon, Pirates!, and other highly influential, groundbreaking games.

Sid is Founder and Director
of Creative Development
for Firaxis Games and is
ranked 2nd in IGN's list of
Top 100 Game Creators
of All Time. In 2008, he
received the Lifetime
Achievement Award from
the Game Developer's
Conference.