{"id":1072,"date":"2016-01-19T09:17:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T16:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2016-02-15T15:24:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:24:20","slug":"designer-notes-15-nels-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-15-nels-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes #15: Nels  Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews Nels Anderson, who was the lead designer of the critically acclaimed <em>Mark of the Ninja<\/em> and is currently a designer\/programmer at Campo Santo working on the upcoming game <em>Firewatch<\/em>. They discuss how he almost went into law enforcement, whether <em>Mark of the Ninja<\/em> actually has AI, and why designers should be able to write code.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Games Discussed:<\/strong> <em>Thief<\/em>, <em>Planescape: Torment<\/em>, <em>DeathSpank<\/em>, <em>Mark of the Ninja<\/em>, <em>Firewatch<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"bbc_url\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/nels-anderson\">https:\/\/www.idlethum&#8230;s\/nels-anderson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews Nels Anderson, who was the lead designer of the critically acclaimed Mark of the Ninja and is currently a designer\/programmer at Campo Santo working on the upcoming game Firewatch. They discuss how he almost went &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-15-nels-anderson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1073,"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-1072","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\/2016\/01\/ninja-header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-hi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","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=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}