{"id":1040,"date":"2015-09-09T12:58:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T19:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2015-09-09T12:58:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T19:58:55","slug":"designer-notes-11-chris-avellone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-11-chris-avellone\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes #11: Chris Avellone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews game designer Chris Avellone, who is best known for his work on <em>Fallout 2<\/em>, <em>Planescape: Torment<\/em>, <em>Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2<\/em>, <em>Fallout: New Vegas<\/em>, and <em>Wasteland 2<\/em>. He is currently working at inXile Entertainment on <em>Torment: Tides of Numenera<\/em>. They discuss why he owes his career to publisher desperation, how <em>Torment<\/em> reflects that players only care about themselves, the mystery of how Black Isle lost the D&amp;D license, and why game writing is overrated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Games Discussed<\/strong>: <em>The Bard&#8217;s Tale<\/em> series, <em>Etrian Odyssey<\/em>, <em>Dungeons &amp; Dragons<\/em>, <em>Fallout<\/em>, <em>Planescape: Torment<\/em>, <em>Ultima Underworld<\/em>, the <em>Icewind Dale<\/em> series, <em>Van Buren<\/em>, <em>KOTOR 2<\/em>, <em>Alpha Protocol<\/em>, <em>Fallout:\u00a0New Vegas<\/em>, <em>Pillars of Eternity<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"bbc_url\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/chris-avellone\">https:\/\/www.idlethum&#8230;\/chris-avellone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews game designer Chris Avellone, who is best known for his work on Fallout 2, Planescape: Torment, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2, Fallout: New Vegas, and Wasteland 2. He is currently working at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-11-chris-avellone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/planescape-header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-gM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}