{"id":1162,"date":"2016-05-06T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T14:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2016-05-06T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T14:30:18","slug":"designer-notes-18-offworld-trading-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-18-offworld-trading-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes #18: Offworld Trading Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Bruce Geryk interviews Soren Johnson about his new economic RTS, <em>Offworld Trading Company<\/em>. They discuss how exploring a black map is one of gaming\u2019s greatest hits, why the hardest part of designing <em>Offworld<\/em> was ending the game, and why Early Access games shouldn\u2019t have QA. Also, listen to hear Soren correctly pronounce timbre!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Games Discussed:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Offworld Trading Company<\/em>, <em>StarCraft<\/em>, <em>Age of Empires 2<\/em>, <em>Railroad Tycoon<\/em>, <em>M.U.L.E.<\/em>, <em>Belter<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/offworld-trading-company-1\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/offworld-trading-company-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Bruce Geryk interviews Soren Johnson about his new economic RTS, Offworld Trading Company. They discuss how exploring a black map is one of gaming\u2019s greatest hits, why the hardest part of designing Offworld was ending the game, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-18-offworld-trading-company\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1163,"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-1162","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\/05\/offworld-header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-iK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","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=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}