{"id":1727,"date":"2021-09-15T21:25:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T04:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2021-10-19T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T01:18:10","slug":"designer-notes-59-andy-schatz-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-59-andy-schatz-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes #59: Andy Schatz &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this episode, Soren interviews independent game developer Andy Schatz, who founded Pocketwatch Games and is best known for his work on <em>Monaco<\/em> and <em>Tooth and Tail<\/em>. This episode was recorded March 23, 2018. They discuss how he tried to live out <em>Ultima<\/em>\u2019s virtues, why no one was ever able to rip-off <em>The Sims<\/em>, and why we both hate click-the-stick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Games discussed:<\/strong> <em>Ultima<\/em> series, <em>Minecraft<\/em>, <em>Halo<\/em>, <em>X-COM<\/em>, <em>Star Trek: Hidden Evil<\/em>, <em>Whacked!<\/em>, <em>The Sims<\/em>, <em>GoldenEye: Rogue Agent<\/em>, <em>Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa<\/em>, <em>Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Arctic<\/em>, <em>Monaco<\/em>, <em>Geometry Wars<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/andy-schatz-part-1\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/andy-schatz-part-1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews independent game developer Andy Schatz, who founded Pocketwatch Games and is best known for his work on Monaco and Tooth and Tail. This episode was recorded March 23, 2018. They discuss how he tried to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-59-andy-schatz-part-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1728,"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-1727","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\/2021\/09\/monaco-header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-rR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","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=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1759,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/1759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}