{"id":1766,"date":"2021-11-19T23:06:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T06:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2021-12-07T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:35:00","slug":"designer-notes-61-chet-faliszek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-61-chet-faliszek\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes #61: Chet Faliszek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this episode, Soren interviews veteran game developer Chet Faliszek, who co-founded Stray Bombay and is best known for his work at Valve on games such as <em>Left 4 Dead<\/em> and <em>Portal 2<\/em>. They discuss what shampoo sales have to do with Old Man Murray, why he tests his games in a foreign language, and why game design is easier for co-op games. This episode was recorded August 17, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Games discussed:<\/strong> <em>Pong<\/em>, <em>Tecmo Bowl<\/em>, <em>Civilization<\/em> series, <em>Archon<\/em>, <em>M.U.L.E.<\/em>, <em>Racing Destruction Set<\/em>, Gin, Hearts, <em>Doom<\/em>, <em>Quake<\/em>, <em>Tribes<\/em>, <em>Myth<\/em>, <em>Half-Life 2<\/em>, <em>Team Fortress 2<\/em>, <em>Left 4 Dead<\/em>, <em>Old World<\/em>, <em>Left 4 Dead 2<\/em>, <em>Portal 1<\/em>, <em>Portal 2<\/em>, <em>Counterstrike<\/em>, <em>Half-Life: Alyx<\/em>, <em>Crusader Kings<\/em> series, <em>The Anacrusis<\/em>, <em>Deep Rock Galactic<\/em>, <em>Killing Floor 2<\/em>, <em>Risk of Rain 2<\/em>, <em>Payday 2<\/em>, <em>GTFO<\/em>, <em>Hades<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/chet-faliszek\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/chet-faliszek<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews veteran game developer Chet Faliszek, who co-founded Stray Bombay and is best known for his work at Valve on games such as Left 4 Dead and Portal 2. They discuss what shampoo sales have to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-61-chet-faliszek\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1767,"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-1766","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\/11\/left4dead-header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-su","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","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=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1771,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions\/1771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}