{"id":1226,"date":"2016-11-23T05:47:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T12:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2016-11-23T05:47:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T12:47:11","slug":"designer-notes-24-sid-meier-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-24-sid-meier-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes 24: Sid Meier \u2013 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ipsType_normal ipsType_richText ipsContained\" data-role=\"commentContent\" data-controller=\"core.front.core.lightboxedImages\">\n<p>In this episode, Soren Johnson interviews legendary game designer Sid Meier, best known for designing <em>Pirates!<\/em>, <em>Railroad Tycoon<\/em>, and <em>Civilization<\/em>. They discuss how Sid\u2019s stealth fighter was more interesting than the real one, whether <em>XCOM<\/em> violates the <em>Covert Action<\/em> rule, and when the world was ready for hexes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Games Discussed:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Covert Action<\/em>, <em>Railroad Tycoon<\/em>, <em>SimCity<\/em>, <em>F-19 Stealth Fighter<\/em>, <em>Civilization<\/em>, <em>Empire<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/sid-meier-part-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/sid-meier-part-2<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren Johnson interviews legendary game designer Sid Meier, best known for designing Pirates!, Railroad Tycoon, and Civilization. They discuss how Sid\u2019s stealth fighter was more interesting than the real one, whether XCOM violates the Covert Action rule, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-24-sid-meier-part-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1227,"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-1226","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\/11\/civilization-header.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-jM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","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=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}