{"id":2,"date":"2007-09-25T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-07-18T16:49:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T23:49:40","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Soren"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>hails from a little town called Centralia in beautiful Washington State.<\/li>\n<li>earned a BA in History and a MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. (Here&#8217;s his spartan <a href=\"http:\/\/www-cs-students.stanford.edu\/~soren\">Stanford Home Page<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>was co-designer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civ3.com\/\">Civilization 3<\/a>\u00a0(and wrote the game\/AI code too).<\/li>\n<li>was project lead and lead designer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2kgames.com\/civ4\/home.htm\">Civilization 4<\/a>\u00a0(and wrote the game\/AI code again, this time from scratch).<\/li>\n<li>worked at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firaxis.com\">Firaxis Games<\/a> as a designer\/programmer from 2000 to 2007.<\/li>\n<li>worked at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxis.com\">EA Maxis<\/a> as a designer\/programmer on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spore.com\">Spore<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>worked at EA2D on browser-based games (try\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/dragonagelegends\/\">Dragon Age Legends<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>founded <a href=\"http:\/\/mohawkgames.com\">Mohawk Games<\/a>\u00a0in 2013 to build innovative strategy games<\/li>\n<li>is a friend to cats everywhere.<\/li>\n<li>knows what he wants but doesn&#8217;t know how to get it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>His gmail account is soren.johnson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hails from a little town called Centralia in beautiful Washington State. earned a BA in History and a MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. (Here&#8217;s his spartan Stanford Home Page.) was co-designer of Civilization 3\u00a0(and wrote the game\/AI code &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3EGlq-2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}