{"id":1086,"date":"2016-04-01T08:27:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T15:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2016-04-01T08:27:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T15:27:21","slug":"designer-notes-17-ananda-gupta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-17-ananda-gupta\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes #17: Ananda Gupta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this episode, Soren interviews game designer Ananda Gupta, best known as the co-designer of <em>Twilight Struggle<\/em> and the lead designer of <em>XCOM: Enemy Within<\/em>. They discuss why DC has no fort in <em>For the People<\/em>, whether <em>Labyrinth<\/em>&#8216;s neocon design is intentional, and should <em>Twilight Struggle<\/em> use dice to resolve conflicts. They also assume quite incorrectly that <em>Command &amp; Conquer: Generals<\/em> was released before 9\/11. Who knew?!?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Games Discussed:<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Lode Runner<\/em>, <em>Ancient Art of War<\/em>, <em>Diplomacy<\/em>, <em>Risk<\/em> series, <em>Paths of Glory<\/em>, <em>Twilight Struggle<\/em>, <em>History of the World<\/em>, <em>Labyrinth<\/em>, <em>A Distant Plain<\/em>, <em>Sept. 12th<\/em>, <em>Civ 3: Conquests<\/em>, <em>A Force More Powerful<\/em>, <em>X-COM<\/em>, <em>XCOM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/ananda-gupta\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/ananda-gupta<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews game designer Ananda Gupta, best known as the co-designer of Twilight Struggle and the lead designer of XCOM: Enemy Within. They discuss why DC has no fort in For the People, whether Labyrinth&#8216;s neocon design &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-17-ananda-gupta\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1087,"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-1086","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\/2016\/04\/twilight-header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-hw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","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=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}