{"id":1006,"date":"2015-06-08T08:04:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2015-08-24T01:09:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T08:09:46","slug":"podcast-daniel-benmergui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/podcast-daniel-benmergui\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes #8: Daniel Benmergui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Adam Saltsman interviews independent game developer Daniel Benmergui, who is best known for experimental story games like <em>Today I Die<\/em>, <em>I Wish I Were The Moon<\/em>, and the IGF-winning <em>Storyteller<\/em>. He is currently working on the Indie Fund-backed puzzle game <em>Ernesto<\/em>. They discuss why games should not be designed backwards, how to recover from the burden of success, why players have difficulty committing a murder of jealousy in <em>Storyteller<\/em>, and whether Chris Hecker hates <em>Ernesto<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Games Discussed:<\/strong> <em>Storyteller<\/em>, <em>Today I Die<\/em>, <em>I Wish I Were The Moon<\/em>, <em>Ernesto<\/em>,<em> Return of the Obra Dinn<\/em>, <em>Gone Home<\/em>, <em>Overland<\/em>, <em>Hundreds<\/em>, <em>FTL<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"bbc_url\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/daniel-benmergui\">https:\/\/www.idlethum&#8230;aniel-benmergui<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Adam Saltsman interviews independent game developer Daniel Benmergui, who is best known for experimental story games like Today I Die, I Wish I Were The Moon, and the IGF-winning Storyteller. He is currently working on the Indie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/podcast-daniel-benmergui\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1007,"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-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/storyteller-header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-ge","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}