{"id":1057,"date":"2015-11-13T10:07:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T17:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2015-11-14T09:15:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T16:15:58","slug":"designer-notes-13-jamie-cheng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-13-jamie-cheng\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes #13: Jamie Cheng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">In this episode, Soren interviews Jamie Cheng, founder of Klei Entertainment\u00a0which is\u00a0known for\u00a0the <em>Shank<\/em> series, <em>Mark of the Ninja<\/em>, <em>Don&#8217;t Starve<\/em>, and <em>Invisible, Inc<\/em>. They discuss paying back the Canadian government, why <em>Mark of the Ninja<\/em>&#8216;s AI needs to be dumb, why <em>Don&#8217;t Starve<\/em> has no extrinsic rewards, and how free-to-play games are his white whale.<\/p>\n<p><b>Games Discussed:<\/b> <em>The Legend of Zelda<\/em>, <em>Aerobiz<\/em>, <em>SD Gundam<\/em>, <em>Dawn of War<\/em>, <em>Eets<\/em>, <em>The Outfit<\/em>, <em>Sugar Rush<\/em>, <em>Shank 1 &amp; 2<\/em>, <em>Mark of the Ninja<\/em>, <em>Don&#8217;t Starve<\/em>, <em>Invisible, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/jamie-cheng\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/jamie-cheng<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews Jamie Cheng, founder of Klei Entertainment\u00a0which is\u00a0known for\u00a0the Shank series, Mark of the Ninja, Don&#8217;t Starve, and Invisible, Inc. They discuss paying back the Canadian government, why Mark of the Ninja&#8216;s AI needs to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-13-jamie-cheng\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1058,"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-1057","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\/11\/dont-starve-header.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-h3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","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=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}