{"id":1173,"date":"2016-06-15T06:46:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T13:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2016-06-15T06:46:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T13:46:38","slug":"designer-notes-19-louis-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-19-louis-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes #19: Louis Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this episode, Soren interviews Westwood Studio co-founder Louis Castle. They discuss why early video game artists were also great at Etch-a-Sketch, why <em>Dune 2<\/em> was not <em>Dune 1<\/em>, how <em>Boom Blox<\/em> was almost <em>Angry Birds<\/em>, and why narrative games can\u2019t end on a negative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Games discussed:<\/strong> <em>Temple of Apshai<\/em>, <em>The Mars Saga<\/em>, <em>Command &amp; Conquer<\/em>, <em>Monopoly<\/em>, <em>Dune 2<\/em>, <em>Eye of the Beholder<\/em>, <em>Blade Runner<\/em>, <em>Boom Blox<\/em>, LMNO, <em>The Battle for Middle-Earth<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/louis-castle\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/louis-castle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews Westwood Studio co-founder Louis Castle. They discuss why early video game artists were also great at Etch-a-Sketch, why Dune 2 was not Dune 1, how Boom Blox was almost Angry Birds, and why narrative games &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-19-louis-castle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1174,"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-1173","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\/06\/blade-runner-header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-iV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","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=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}